My compliments to lovely ladies (and rare gentlemen)!
I wanted to tell you about my experience in making this dessert. Why in this topic - the original recipe is most suitable for various variations, and any dish from any chef, especially an amateur, is unique: this is not - I threw another, I put less salt, and more sugar, etc., we do not work on production according to GOST, in short.
The first time I tried tiramisu in one of the hotels in Sharm, when I worked in this city, and apart from him, I practically did not eat anything in that hotel “canteen” (although the whole cuisine there was decent and, it seems, remains so today, the hotel is oriented towards Italians and Russian-speaking guests). And for the last month I had a feeling - if I don't eat tiramisu, then I'll die. I have tried this dish in many places, but nowhere like in that hotel. And I wanted, of course, just in this performance.
I do not argue about what this dessert should be and how it should be prepared, for everyone it has its own, but for me “my own tiramisu” is this - cream in large quantities, necessarily a liquid consistency (apply and eat with a spoon, but did not drip) without vanilla, cookies in small quantities, impregnation: expresso + cognac and nothing more, sprinkling without fanaticism. When you put a spoonful of tiramisu in your mouth, you should feel a cream with a hint of chocolate and a thin layer of crumbs with the aroma of coffee and everything else that biscuit, cream and cognac give.
When I want to amuse myself, I cook myself. This rarely happens, but if you really scold, then scold yourself, and not those you love. I shoveled a lot of recipes, decided, bought and started cooking.
Ingredients:
six eggs,
500 gr. mascarpone,
180 g espresso coffee (beans from Sumatra, medium roast one and a half months ago, made in the machine - one dressing for two cups and one dressing for one cup),
Cognac "Noah" 3 stars (regretted another) 1 tbsp. the spoon,
Six tablespoons (with a slide "over the edge") granulated sugar (proportion: 1 spoon for one yolk).
I didn't find Savoyardi, I bought light biscuit cakes.
Preparation:
1. Cut one cake into strips, finger-wide, put the strips on a baking sheet covered with tracing paper and in a preheated oven - temperature 125 degrees, mode - convection, time 15-20 minutes, then dry the strips on a paper towel at room temperature.
2. Wash the eggs with dish detergent, spread two tablespoons of baking soda in a dish of water and put the eggs in it for 15 minutes.
3. Made coffee and took it outside to cool down, smoked there.
4. Prepared powdered sugar from the specified amount of sugar.
5. I washed the eggs under running water, rubbed them dry, separated the whites from the yolks into different vessels.
6. Beat the yolks at an average speed of 5-7 seconds, then, simultaneously adding powdered sugar, brought the mass to the desired consistency (white, increased volume), gradually increasing the speed.
7. The whites, meanwhile, were whipped in parallel in the combine, before whipping, I threw a tiny pinch of salt into the bowl to the whites and, gradually increasing the speed, whipped the whites to a state of airy foam (check: turned the bowl over - there is no foam movement. Advice: if there is only one mixer, then first beat the whites - then the yolks. The whipped whites will have nothing from "downtime", and the whipped yolks may fall off)
8. Introduced mascarpone into the yolk mass at once and mixed everything with a mixer.
9. With a large plastic spoon, I transferred the protein foam to the cheese-yolk mass and gently mixed from bottom to top (advice: mix carefully, you do not need to achieve complete homogeneity, otherwise the protein foam will fall off - scooped up from below, lifted it along the wall, put it lovingly on top. more or less will be at the top, stop.).
10. Brought coffee, poured it into a soup bowl, added brandy, mixed.
11. Alternately, I dipped the strips of biscuit into coffee and laid them on the bottom of the bowl (I took a relatively narrow and deep one), generously applied the first layer of cream, laid out the second layer of biscuit and applied a layer of cream, rubbed a little bitter chocolate on top of the cream, additionally sprinkled cocoa ( "Golden Label"). At the same time I prepared a serving in piles (or, in the present day, shots): three glasses of 60 grams. - down a biscuit (one layer) close the bottom, then cream (one layer), sprinkle only with cocoa. I sent everything to the refrigerator.
The glasses were eaten after three hours (delicious!), The main vessel the next day.
Work on mistakes regarding personal preference. The dish was very successful, the taste is the same, but:
one.Nothing can replace Savoyardi.
2. The cheese must be taken out of the refrigerator ahead of time so that when the ingredients are mixed they are at the same temperature. When I was forming the dish, it seemed that the cream was slightly curdled, but, fortunately, everything worked out - after the refrigerator there was no hint of cottage cheese in texture or taste.
3. It seemed that he worked as a mixer with cheese for a long time. Next time I'll show less fanaticism or just use a whisk (I'll mix it by hand).
4. The dish is extremely satisfying. Much, as it used to be, I can't eat in a sitting anymore, my family agrees, so next time I'll do it in glasses.
5. Serve only in glasses: aesthetically pleasing, tastier (good biscuit-cream balance) and the additive can be overpowered.
6. In the main bowl, there are many layers of biscuit, it was necessary to put one in the middle.
7. The bottom layer of the biscuit has impregnated fairly - impregnation turned out to be at the bottom (not whey!). The taste is not affected, but ugly.
8. Replace chocolate completely with cocoa.
Sources of my option: site
https://mcooker-enm.tomathouse.com this topic especially (thanks!) TV food (world chef).
P. S. When my friends come to my beloved, I will make a variation (somehow) - instead of cognac I will add Amaretto and put a cherry on top (let the girlfriends envy), it will not be “my own tiramisu”, but I wanted to try this combination.