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Happy Berry

5 from 1 vote
Prep Time 14 hours
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 14 hours 30 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine Dutch
Servings 4 servings

Ingredients
  

GOJI BERRY SORBET

  • 225 grams goji berry purée sieved
  • 200 grams water
  • 100 grams sugar
  • 45 grams ProSorbet
  • 105 grams lemon juice freshly pressed

BLUEBERRY POWDER

  • 75 grams smooth wheat flour
  • 20 grams blueberries freeze-dried, ground
  • 50 grams sugar
  • 15 grams palatinose
  • 65 grams soft butter

“HAPPY BERRY”

  • 2 grams leaf gelatine
  • 15 grams calamansi juice
  • 15 grams lemon juice freshly pressed
  • 35 grams sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 2 drops yellow food colouring
  • 50 grams lightly whipped cream

YOGHURT GEL

  • 100 grams water
  • 10 grams plain yoghurt 3.5%, flat
  • 10 grams Yopol yoghurt powder
  • 13 grams sugar
  • 1 gram Agar-agar
  • 0.8 gram gellan

GOJI BERRY GEL

  • 60 grams goji berry purée
  • 50 grams sugar syrup colorless
  • 22 grams lemon kuice freshly pressed
  • 0.9 gram Agar-agar
  • 0.5 gram gellan

BLUEBERRY GEL

  • 85 grams blueberry purée
  • 33 grams water
  • 13 grams sugar
  • 1 gram Agar-agar
  • 0.4 gram gellan

GOJI BERRY JELLY

  • 100 grams goji berry purée sieved
  • 30 grams water
  • 11 grams sugar
  • 0.5 gram kappa carrageenan
  • 0.3 gram Agar-agar

YOGHURT JELLY

  • 110 grams water
  • 13 grams sugar
  • 15 grams Yopol yoghurt powder
  • 0.5 gram kappa carrageenan
  • 0.3 gram Agar-agar

MANGO CRISP

  • 90 grams mango fruit fresh
  • 15 grams sugar powdered
  • 12 grams isomalt sugar
  • 3 grams glucose syrup
  • 1 lime juice dash freshly pressed

FRESH MANGO AND MANGO ROLLS

  • 1/2 mango fruit fresh

TO SERVE

  • 8 blueberries fresh
  • Yellow viola petals

Instructions
 

Goji Berry Sorbet

  • Put the goji berry purée, water, sugar, ProSorbet and the freshly pressed lemon juice into a blender and blend until the sugar has dissolved.
  • Transfer the sorbet mixture to a Pacojet beaker and freeze for 12 hours.
  • When ready to serve, place the Pacojet beaker in the Pacojet and process to sorbet (alternatively, put the well-chilled liquid in an ice-cream machine to make sorbet)

Blueberry Powder

  • In a bowl mix together the wheat flour, ground blueberries, sugar and the Palatinose then stir in the soft butter.
  • Transfer the dough to a layer of clingfilm and shape into an even roll (c. 4 cm diameter).
  • Close the ends firmly so that you have a compact bonbon shape.
  • Freeze the roll for 12 hours.
  • Next take it out of the freezer and remove the clingfilm.
  • Immediately grate fine shavings onto a Silpat mat using a microplane grater.
  • Bake the dough shavings in a preheated oven at 110 °C (upper and lower heat) for about 15 minutes until crisp.
  • Leave the blueberry powder to cool.

“Happy Berry”

  • Soak the gelatine in cold water for a few minutes.
  • Put the calamansi juice, freshly pressed lemon juice, sugar, egg and the food colouring into a saucepan and heat at 85 °C while stirring constantly.
  • Stir in the well-squeezed-out gelatine until it dissolves.
  • Place the mixture over ice cubes and cool at 40°C before folding in the lightly whipped cream.
  • Spoon the cream into silicone ‘smiley’ forms (c. 4 cm diameter) and shock freeze the silicone mat at -35°C for 1 hour.
  • Remove the ‘happy berries’ from the silicone form, place on a tray and leave to thaw in the refrigerator.

Yoghurt Gel

  • Put the water, plain yoghurt, Yopol, sugar, agar-agar and the Gellan in a saucepan and simmer everything for 2 minutes.
  • Pour the hot mixture into a deep plate and leave to set for 1-2 hours.
  • Transfer the yoghurt jelly to a blender and blend until you have a smooth gel.
  • Strain the yoghurt through a fine sieve, put into a plastic squirt bottle and refrigerate.

Goji Berry Gel

  • Put the goji berry purée, colourless syrup, lemon juice, agar-agar and the Gellan in a pot and simmer everything for 2 minutes.
  • Pour the hot mixture into a deep plate and leave to set for 1-2 hours.
  • Transfer the goji berry jelly to a blender and blend until you have a smooth gel.
  • Strain the goji berry gel through the fine sieve, put into a plastic squirt bottle and refrigerate.

Blueberry Gel

  • Put the blueberry purée and the water in a pot.
  • Mix together the sugar, agar-agar and the Gellan and stir into the pot with the purée.
  • Simmer everything for 2 minutes.
  • Transfer the blueberry jelly to a blender and blend until you have smooth gel.
  • Strain the blueberry gel through a fine sieve, put into a plastic squirt bottle and refrigerate.

Goji Berry Jelly

  • Put the goji berry purée, water, sugar, kappa Carrgeenan and agar-agar in a pot and simmer for 2 minutes.
  • Next pour it into a form to a depth of 1 cm and allow to cool.
  • When it has cooled, refrigerate the jelly.
  • When ready to serve, punch out little cylinders (1 cm diameter).

Yoghurt Jelly

  • Put the water in a pot.
  • Mix together the sugar, Yopol, Kappa Carrgeenan and the agar-agar and stir into the water.
  • Simmer everything for 2 minutes then pour into a form to a depth of 1 cm and allow to cool.
  • When it has cooled, refrigerate the yoghurt jelly.
  • When ready to serve, punch out little cylinders (1 cm diameter).

Mango Crisp

  • In a Thermomix put the mango fruit, powdered sugar, isomalt sugar, glucose syrup, and 1 dash of freshly pressed lime juice and blend for 10 minutes at 80°C.
  • Next spread the mango purée very thinly on a Silpat mat and bake in a preheated oven at 130°C (upper and lower heat) for 10 minutes until crisp.
  • Break the mango crisp into larger pieces.

Fresh Mango and Mango Rolls

  • Using the slicer, shave off 4 wafer-thin slices lengthwise from the peeled mango.
  • Trim the slices of mango to 3 cm x 3 cm and roll them into little rolls.
  • From the remaining mango fruit, punch out 8 small cylinders (1 cm high, 1 cm diameter).

To Serve

  • Place 1 “Happy Berry” in the centre of each of 4 plates.
  • With a teaspoon, heap some blueberry powder next to it.
  • Around the “Happy Berry” arrange a circle 2 mango cylinders, 1 mango roll, 1 goji berry cylinder and 1 yogurt jelly cylinder.
  • In the spaces in between, squirt several dots of goji berry gel, and blueberry gel and embellish with 1 fresh blueberry.
  • Place a small scoop of goji berry sorbet on the blueberry powder and finish off by decorating the sorbet with a piece of mango crisp and garnishing with viola petals.

Notes

HAPPY BERRY
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