Pa, xocolata, oli
This dessert comes from Spanish restaurant Parrillan Borough Yards in London and features a decadent chocolate sponge with silky olive oil ice cream. The chefs use Guanaja chocolate, which is a 70% bittersweet variety
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- Serves: 6 persons
Ingredients
- 200g Guanaja chocolate
- 200g unsalted butter
- 4eggs
- 150g caster sugar
- 120g self-raising flour
- icing sugar, olive oil and sea salt flakes, to serve
- 60g Guanaja chocolate, chopped
- 75ml whole milk
- 500ml whole milk
- 60g glucose syrup
- 6egg yolks
- 100g caster sugar
- 325ml olive oil
Instructions
Step 1
Make the sauce by bringing the milk to a boil, turning off the heat and adding the chocolate. Stir until smooth. Pour into six 5-6cm silicone moulds or similar – you need to be able to pop the frozen chocolates out. Freeze.Step 2
To make the ice cream, bring the milk to a boil with the glucose syrup and leave it to cool. Whisk the egg yolks with the sugar and glucose. Put the egg mixture in a clean pan with the milk and cook over a low heat until it reaches 85C or thickens to coat the back of a spoon. Cool down and slowly whisk in the olive oil. Chill, ideally for 24 hours. Churn the mixture in an ice cream machine or freeze, stirring every couple of hours.Step 3
For the sponge, melt the chocolate and butter in a bowl set over, but not touching, a pan of boiling water, then cool to room temperature. In a separate bowl, whisk the eggs with the sugar until the mixture comes together. Combine both mixtures, stirring slowly with a spatula. Sift over the flour and gently stir again.Step 4
Heat the oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 4. Using ovenproof terracotta pots or ramekins, pour a small layer of the chocolate sponge mixture into each. Put a frozen chocolate centre on top and cover with the sponge mixture.Step 5
Bake in the oven for 12 minutes. Sift over icing sugar and add a scoop of the olive oil ice cream on top. To finish, drizzle with olive oil and a pinch of salt.