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Frozen Nougat

Impress your guests with this delightful dessert, a smooth mixture of meringue and dried fruit, which can easily be prepared several days beforehand.

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Last modified on: February 21^th 2011

For 2 Frozens Nougat, you will need:

1 350 g Italian Meringue
2 200 ml liquid cream
3 10 g Vanilla sugar
4 2 sheets gelatin
5 2 tablespoons rum
6 80 g whole almonds
7 80 g raisins
8 80 g dried apricots
9 80 g pistachios
10 200 ml Fruit coulis (fruit purée)
Total weight: 1,114 grams

Change those ingredients for: 1 Frozen Nougat 2 Frozens Nougat 4 Frozens Nougat 6 Frozens Nougat

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How long does it take?

Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
1 hour 18 min.	10 min.	1 hour 28 min.

Keeping: Several weeks in the freezer.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 10 min.

Make whipped cream (Chantilly) with 200 ml liquid cream and 10 g Vanilla sugar, then keep in fridge.

Stage 2 - 1 min.

Put 2 sheets gelatin in a bowl of cold water.

Stage 3 - 1 min.

Toast 80 g whole almonds and 80 g pistachios by putting them on a baking sheet.

Stage 4 - 5 min.

And put in hot oven 200°C or 392°F for 3 - 5 minutes. Watch this carefully: almonds and pistachios should not be too browned.

Stage 5 - 5 min.

Once cooled, coarsly blend or chop almonds and pistachios. Set aside.

Stage 6 - 3 min.

Cut 80 g dried apricots into fine strips.

Stage 7 - 3 min.

Cut strips again in small dice.

Stage 8 - 5 min.

Put 80 g raisins in boiling water and leave to swell 5 minutes.

Stage 9 - 5 min.

Warm (in microwave for instance) 2 tablespoons rum.

Drain gelatin, dry it on a teatowel, then dissolve in warmed rum.

Set aside.

Stage 10 - 30 min.

Prepare 350 g Italian Meringue, and while you finish beating, add gelatin in rum a spoonful at a time.

Stage 11 - 5 min.

Add raisins and apricots to meringue.

Stage 12 - 2 min.

Then almonds and pistachios.

Stage 13 - 5 min.

And finally whipped cream.

Stage 14

Tilt the bowl and fold the ingredients gently into the meringue.

Stage 15 - 3 min.

Cover the base of a cake mould with a plastic film to make turning out easier.

Stage 16 - 5 min.

Fill the mould with mixture without pressing down, it should remain light.

Stage 17

Fold over plastic film on top, and put in the freezer overnight or longer.

Stage 18

On the day, slice the nougat and serve on a plate, surrounded with a little raspberry coulis, and with a mint leaf and/or piece of crystallized grapefruit on top.

Remarks

Any kind of dried fruits can be substituted: instead of apricots, raisins, almonds and pistachios you can use walnuts, hazelnuts, prunes, bananas, etc.

Same thing for the coulis, it can be made with strawberries, blackberries, blackcurrants,... I really recommend you use something slightly acidic to contrast with the sweetness of the nougat.

For the meringue you have two possible methods:

"French meringue" is the classical meringue egg white + caster sugar
"Italian meringue" where the sugar is cooked before putting onto whites.

You can choose one or the other. My preference is for the more delicate Italian meringue, more diffcult to do, but much smoother.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
3,778 Kcal or 15,818 Kj	50 gr	551 gr	147 gr
189 %	19 %	52 %	22 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
339 Kcal or 1,419 Kj	4 gr	49 gr	13 gr
17 %	2 %	5 %	2 %

Per piece
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
1,889 Kcal or 7,909 Kj	25 gr	275 gr	74 gr
94 %	10 %	26 %	11 %

% 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 2 Frozens Nougat : 6.27 €
Per Frozen Nougat : 3.14 €

Note : These prices are only approximate

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Source

Home made.

More recipes?

This recipe uses (among others)

	Italian Meringue: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Lime meringue tart, Lemon Tart / Meringue Pie, Rhubarb mousse, Lemon Meringue Pie Verrines, Pear and lime meringue pie, ... All
	Fruit coulis (fruit purée): You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Peach Melba, Apricot fool, Half-cooked chocolate cake with raspberry coulis, Macarons (the original French macaroons) , Coupe Augustin, ... All
	Liquid cream: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Madras rice, Pistachio ice cream, Icelandic-style fish and vegetable pie, Chantilly cream, Shallot confit tart, ... All
	Whole almonds: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Nougat, Piped petits-fours, Rice pudding with fruit and nuts, Crusty pistachio, almond and apricot flan, Moist cereal bars, ... All

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