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Peach melba

Tim Cooper

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Peach melba.
Peach melba.Marco Del Grande

Tim Cooper is Bourke Street Bakery's pastry chef. Having moved here from Britain, the peach melba is one of his first memories of Australian sweets.

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Ingredients

  • 1 punnet raspberries

  • 2 tbsp sugar

  • 1/2 lemon, juiced

  • 10 egg yolks

  • 100g castor sugar plus 1 tbsp

  • 250ml 35 per cent cream

  • 700ml 45 per cent (thickened) cream

  • 2 vanilla beans, split and scraped

  • 3 peaches

  • 1 tsp rosewater

  • 6 puff pastry circles, cut to 70-mm diameter and baked (use your own puff pastry recipe or buy a quality brand from a supermarket)

  • 2 tbsp pistachios, blanched and roughly chopped to garnish

Method

  1. For raspberry puree, wash raspberries and puree in a food processor with sugar and lemon juice. Force through a fine sieve to remove seeds.

    For vanilla cream, whisk together yolks and 100 grams castor sugar in a stainless steel bowl. Mix creams and vanilla beans in a saucepan and bring to the boil.

    Pour cream onto yolks and whisk well. Return to a medium heat and stir continuously until mixture thickens. Do not allow to boil. Pour cream mix through a fine strainer and refrigerate overnight.

    For peaches, preheat oven to 150C. Cut each peach in half and slice each half into 12 wedges. Lay wedges on a baking tray and sprinkle with 1 tablespooon castor sugar and rosewater. Bake for five minutes. Allow to cool.

    Place baked puff pastry discs on six plates. Place a teaspoon of raspberry puree in the middle of each disc. Spoon 1.5 tablespoons of vanilla cream over the raspberry puree. Place the baked peach slices in a circle, imitating petals of a flower, over the vanilla cream. Spoon a little extra raspberry puree onto the plates and garnish with a few pistachios.

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