Healthy pralines with tea
April 12th 2010 Posted at Tea, Test
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Monday, april 12th 2010
Another healthy day today. I experimented with tea and chocolate.
I made a few pralines with ganache based on tea. Not so easy to find the right amount of tea to put in.
I use natural tea from the Sao Paulo tea shop in Gent. They have a lot of different sort of tea’s from all over the world. The experiment I did today was based on Cherry taste tea and Energy welness tea. You can find the ingredients of the tea below.
The first one is the Energy welness tea praline. The tea consists of dried ingredients with apple, citronella grass, carrot, roseflower leafs and grapefruit.
Cooking the cream and milk with the tea
White Callebaut chocolate
Tempering the white chocolate
The result is a smooth and a bit grapefruit taste
The second praline is made with cherry tea wich consists of dried ingredients of cherries, apple, hibiscus, rose-hip and elderberries. When I mixed it with white chocolate I found out that the colour of the ganache turned out grey – purple.
Grey ganache, not really pleasant to see but an amazing perfume and taste.
Cherry tea praline (I can make the colour more purple with colouring agent but I prefer not to use chemicals for the experiment)
More about chocolate and tea very soon. Keep visiting the site.
Grtz Alain