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Chocolate mendiants

Mendiants are made with a thin layer of chocolate, stuck with toasted nuts, dried and candied fruit.

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Last modified on: May 27^th 2020

For 20 pieces, you will need:

0 30 g Candied grapefruit peel
1 20 raisins
2 20 whole almonds
3 10 walnut kernels
4 20 hazelnuts
5 20 pistachios
6 20 pine nuts
7 100 g dark chocolate
Total weight: 220 grams

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
27 min.	35 min.	1 hour 2 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 3 min.

Preheat the oven to 300°F (150°C).

Chop 30 g Candied grapefruit peel into small dice.

Separate 20 raisins (they often come stuck together).

Stage 2 - 15 min.

Lay a sheet of cooking parchment on a baking sheet and spread out 20 whole almonds, 10 walnut kernels, and 20 hazelnuts.

Toast the nuts in the oven for 15 minutes.

Stage 3 - 4 min.

After this time, take the nuts out of the oven. Tip the almonds and walnuts off the baking sheet and (if necessary) rub the hazelnuts in tea towel to remove the skins.

Leave to cool.

Stage 4 - 10 min.

Reuse the same paper and baking sheet to toast 20 pistachios and 20 pine nuts in the oven for 10 minutes. Being smaller, they will not take as long.

Leave to cool.

Stage 5 - 10 min.

Melt 100 g dark chocolate over a bain-marie. The usual method is to put the chocolate in a bowl, but if you use a small bottle instead, this makes the next stage easier.

Stage 6

Check that the chocolate is fully melted.

Stage 7

For this recipe, I used a silicon mould with rectangular compartments, but you can use whatever you have to hand - the shape doesn't matter.

Stage 8

Pour a thin layer of chocolate into the moulds (now the bottle comes into its own).

Stage 9

Then arrange the fruit and nuts on top.

When everything is on, press down into the chocolate with your fingers.

Stage 10 - 20 min.

My tip: work like a production line. Pour all the chocolate first, then add the all almonds, next the raisins, etc.

This way, all your mediants will look the same.

Stage 11

Refrigerate for 2 hours to set the chocolate and make sure the fruit and nuts are stuck.

Stage 12

Take your mendiants out of their moulds gently, and leave to come back to room temperature before handing round or tucking in yourself.

Remarks

The French name means "mendicants", after the 4 types of fruit and nuts traditionally used in the Provençal thirteen Christmas desserts to represent the 4 mendicant religious orders: raisins for the Augustines, hazelnuts for the Carmelites, figs for the Franciscans and almonds for the Dominicans.

You can vary the topping depending on the fruit and nuts you have to hand, but do try to keep a mix of toasted nuts + dried fruit + candied fruit.

Keeping:

Several days in a sealed container.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
1,185 Kcal or 4,961 Kj	25 gr	65 gr	96 gr
59 %	10 %	6 %	15 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
538 Kcal or 2,252 Kj	11 gr	29 gr	44 gr
27 %	4 %	3 %	7 %

Per piece
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
59 Kcal or 247 Kj	1 gr	3 gr	5 gr
3 %	<1 %	<1 %	1 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 20 pieces : 2.69 €
Per piece : 0.13 €

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Source

Home made.

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Dark chocolate: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Half-cooked chocolate cake with raspberry coulis, How to make chocolate chips, Chocolate muffins, Little chocolate and hazelnut fondants, Chocolate ganache, ... All
	Candied grapefruit peel: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Calissons, Chocolate cream with a crunch, irish coffee mousse, Grapefruit moelleux, Brioche royale, Chocolate thins with toasted nuts, ... All
	Hazelnuts: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Brioche royale, Granola, Little chocolate and hazelnut fondants, ... All
	Raisins: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Moist cereal bars, 3-fruit brioche loaf, Frozen Nougat, Kugelhof for Nanou, Panettone, ... All

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