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Chocolate-verbena cream

A chocolate cream with delicious aromas of fresh verbena.

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Last modified on: June 30^th 2024

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For 12 people, you will need:

1 600 ml Milk
2 600 ml cream
3 4 handfuls Verbena
4 200 ml dark chocolate
5 2 teaspoons powdered cocoa (optional)
6 8 egg yolks
7 200 ml caster sugar
8 77.6 ml cornflour

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Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
19 min.	1 hour	45 min.	2 hours 4 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 10 min.

Pour 600 ml Milk, 600 ml cream and 4 handfuls Verbena leaves into a saucepan.

Place over medium heat and bring to the boil.

Stage 2 - 1 hour

Turn off the heat once the mixture has reached boiling point, then blend.

The aim is to distribute the vervain evenly in the milk-cream mixture, to capture the flavors.

Cover and leave to stand for a good hour.

Stage 3 - 5 min.

After this time, strain the mixture through a fine sieve, pressing the vervain well to release all its flavour, then pour back into the rinsed pan, discarding the vervain.

Stage 4 - 5 min.

Return the pan to a low heat, and gently stir in 200 ml dark chocolate in small pieces or pistoles and 2 teaspoons powdered cocoa.

When well blended, turn off the heat and cover.

Stage 5 - 5 min.

In a bowl, mix 8 egg yolks and 200 ml caster sugar, then add 77.6 ml cornflour and mix well again.

Stage 6 - 3 min.

Pour everything into the pan and mix well.

Preheat oven to 180°C (360°F).

Stage 7 - 6 min.

Divide the mixture between ramekins and place in the drip tray of your oven.

Add enough boiling or hot water to reach halfway up the ramekins.

Stage 8 - 30 min.

Bake for approximately 30 minutes.

Stage 9

Leave to cool after removing from the drip pan, and enjoy warm or cold.

Remarks

The milk-cream-verbena mixture in step 2 can be made in advance, even the day before, to allow the verbena flavors to diffuse.

You can make a milk chocolate version, replacing the dark chocolate, in which case I recommend reducing the weight of powdered sugar a little (80g).

Keeping

1 or 2 days in the fridge, protected by cling film.

Source

Home made.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
4,793 Kcal or 20,067 Kj	87 gr	406 gr	313 gr
240 %	33 %	38 %	47 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
266 Kcal or 1,114 Kj	5 gr	23 gr	17 gr
13 %	2 %	2 %	3 %

Per person
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
399 Kcal or 1,671 Kj	7 gr	34 gr	26 gr
20 %	3 %	3 %	4 %

% 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).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Milk, Egg

How much will it cost?

For 12 people : 5.12 €
Per person : 0.43 €

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