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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.

200,6084.9/5 for 16 ratings

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

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Time required

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

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories 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

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	Italian Meringue: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Lemon Meringue Pie Verrines, Pear and lime meringue pie, Lime meringue tart, Lemon Tart / Meringue Pie, ... All
	Fruit coulis (fruit purée): You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Fruit crémeux, Coupe Augustin, Peach Melba, Warm apple feuillantines, European glass, ... All
	Liquid cream: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Spaghetti with mussels and basil, Firied fillet of sea bream with polenta, Pan-baked hash brown (Hash-brown casserole), Black Forest gateau, Chocolate sauce, ... All
	Raisins: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Pains briochés aux raisins, Moist cereal bars, Chocolate cereal bars, Little apple turnovers with almonds and raisins, Panettone, ... All

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