Strawberry pistachio mille-feuillantines
1 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| ½ | cup | Shelled natural pistachios; (about 2 1/2 ounces) |
| ½ | cup | Granulated sugar |
| ¼ | cup | All-purpose flour |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Salt |
| 2 | larges | Egg whites |
| 5 | tablespoons | Unsalted butter; melted |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Vanilla |
| 1 | Vanilla bean; halved lengthwise | |
| 1 | cup | Chilled heavy cream |
| 3 | tablespoons | Granulated sugar |
| 1 | pounds | Small strawberries; (about 1 pint), trimmed |
| Confectioners' sugar for dusting | ||
| 4 | smalls | Strawberries and chopped pistachios |
| 8 | minutes, or until golden. | |
Directions
PISTACHIO WAFERS
GARNISH
(Pistachio Wafers Layered with Strawberries and Cream) Make wafers: Preheat oven to 325° F. and spray a heavy or non-stick baking sheet with cooking spray or line with parchment paper.
Rub off loose skins from pistachios and in a food processor grind nuts with granulated sugar. In a bowl whisk together pistachio mixture, flour, and salt and whisk in whites, butter, and vanilla until combined well. Drop rounded teaspoons batter 5 inches apart onto baking sheet and with back of a spoon spread into 3½- to 4-inch rounds. Bake wafers in middle of oven Working quickly, transfer hot wafers with a thin metal spatula to a rack to cool completely. (If wafers become too crisp to remove from baking sheet, return to oven 1 minute, or until heated through and pliable.) Make more wafers with remaining batter in same manner, spraying or re-lining sheet for each batch. Wafers may be made 2 days ahead and kept in an airtight container at room temperature. Makes 16 to 20 wafers.
Into a chilled bowl scrape seeds of vanilla bean and add cream and granulated sugar. With a whisk or an electric mixer beat mixture until it holds stiff peaks. Whipped cream may be made 2 hours ahead and chilled, covered. Whisk cream briefly before using.
Just before serving, assemble mille-feuillantines: Put a wafer in center of each of 4 plates. Spread about 2 tablespoons whipped cream on each wafer, leaving a ¼-inch border, and top with half of strawberries. Put another wafer on top of strawberries and top in same manner with remaining cream and strawberries. Dust 4 wafers with confectioners' sugar and put on top of desserts. Garnish each mille-feuillantine with a strawberry and sprinkle plates with pistachios.
Makes 4 Servings
Gourmet June 1997
Posted to recipelu-digest by Sandy <sandysno@...> on Feb 26, 1998