Tropical fruit and Chantilly cream pancakes
Tropical fruit and Chantilly cream pancakes
Dessert Preparation 30 minutes
Service 4 people
Difficulty 4/10
Ingredients
- For the pancakes:
- 250g flour
- 3 eggs
- 50cl milk
- 50g butter
- 3 tbsp granulated sugar
- 1 pinch salt
- For the filling:
- 150g mascarpone
- 25cl single or whipping cream
- 2 tbsp icing sugar
- 1 vanilla pod
- 2 mangos
- 1 pomegranate
- 2 passion fruit
- Optional:
- Salted butter caramel
Preparation
To make the pancakes:
- Mix the flour, salt and sugar in a bowl.
- Make a well in the middle and add the eggs one at a time, mixing as you go.
- Once the mixture is nicely thick, gradually add the cold milk. The batter should be smooth and rather liquid. You can add more milk if it seems too thick.
- Melt the butter and add to the batter.
- Leave to rest for 1 hour. (This stage is not essential: you can use the batter immediately if you wish.)
- Cook the pancakes for about 10 seconds on each side. Set aside.
For the filling:
- Split the vanilla pod in half and scrape out the seeds with the tip of a sharp knife.
- In a bowl, whisk the cream, the mascarpone, the sugar and the vanilla seeds.
- Start gently, then increase the speed to medium. Stop as soon as the cream becomes foamy and forms a peak on the whisk. Set aside in the fridge.
- Peel the mangos and cut half the flesh into thin slices. Mix the rest of the flesh in the blender to obtain a thick coulis. Set aside in the fridge.
- Cut the passion fruit in half and set aside in the fridge.
For the presentation:
- Top the pancakes with the cream mixture and fold in half.
- Sprinkle with pomegranate seeds, add the passion-fruit halves and the thin slices of mango placed in a fan shape.
Serve immediately.
The Chef's twist
You can replace the cream with warmed salted-butter caramel.