Kobe Desramaults' Gourmandine Potato

(via theflemishprimitives circa 2011)

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Ingredients

  • 600 g floury potatoes
  • 1 l milk
  • 1 l cream
  • 200 g chocolate (65%)
  • 200 g cream (35%)
  • 20 g butter
  • 2 g salt
  • 350 g mashed potato (unflavoured)
  • 350 g water
  • 100 g potato starch
  • 150 g S2
  • 330 g St. Bernardus

Method

  • Potato ice-cream. Cook the potatoes. Pass them through a puree sieve. Mix 1500 g boiled vegetable stock with 200 g egg yolk and 250 g sugar. Add to the mashed potato, mix in a blender until a thin consistency is formed & pour into Pacojet cups -20 degrees Celcius.
  • Bitter chocolate. Heat cream to 70 degrees Celcius. Add chocolate and melt. Mix in salt and butter. Keep warm at 40 degrees Celcius.
  • Crispy potato. Heat the stock to 100 degrees Celcius in the Thermomix food processor, add the mash & starch, mix for 3 minutes at 100 degrees Celcius. Roll out on Silpat mats. Dry for 3 hours at 70 degrees Celcius (completely dry).
  • Gourmandine potato, with St.Bernardus beer caramel
    • For the caramel: 150 g S2 and 330 g St. Bernardus.
    • Potato: Cut, rinse and cook 12 potato slices (approx. 1 cm) in caramel.