For 4 people, you will need:
- 1
2 grapefruits - 2
4 Pears - 3
300 g water - 4
150 g caster sugar - 5
½ lemon - 6
4 pinches Citrus crunch - 7
250 g sabayon - Total weight: 2,165 grams
How long does it take?
Time required for this recipe:
| Preparation | Start to finish |
|---|---|
| 55 min. | 55 min. |
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Step by step recipe
Stage 1 - 25 min.
Peel 2 grapefruits and arrange in small dishes.
Stage 2 - 25 min.
Collect the grapefruit juice, strain, and use to make sabayon.
Stage 3 - 5 min.
Just before serving, cover the grapefruits with sabayon, and sprinkle with a pinch of 4 pinches Citrus crunch.
Stage 4
If you use 4 Pears instead of 2 grapefruits, peel and cut them in quarters, discard the core.
Poach in a light syrup made with 300 g water, 150 g caster sugar, and juice of ½ lemon, until soft (check by piercing with a knife).
Poach in a light syrup made with 300 g water, 150 g caster sugar, and juice of ½ lemon, until soft (check by piercing with a knife).
Stage 5
Cut each quarter into small dice and drain thoroughly.
Stage 6
Put a layer of diced pear into dishes either alone, or on top of grapefruit segments.
Stage 7
To serve, cover the pears with sabayon, and sprinkle with a pinch of citrus crunch.
Remarks
This dessert is fairly quick, and the fruit can be prepared in advance, only the sabayon must be made at the last minute.
Keeping
To eat right now.
Nutritional information
| Whole recipe | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 1,804 Kcal or 7,553 Kj | 18 gr | 385 gr | 21 gr |
| 90 % | 7 % | 36 % | 3 % |
| Per 100 g | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 83 Kcal or 348 Kj | 1 gr | 18 gr | 1 gr |
| 4 % | <1 % | 2 % | <1 % |
| Per person | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 451 Kcal or 1,888 Kj | 4 gr | 96 gr | 5 gr |
| 23 % | 2 % | 9 % | 1 % |
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Source
Home made.
This recipe uses (among others)
 | Water: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: How to use gelatin, Rum babas, Couscous, Minestrone, Toffee apple upside-down cake, ... All |
 | Sabayon: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Soft fruits in sabayon, Strawberry brunoise in a dessert-wine sabayon, ... All |
 | Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Amaretti, Blackcurrant jelly, Blackberry and almond fondant tart, Old style brioche, Brioche Tatin, ... All |
 | Citrus crunch: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Chaud-froid of grapefruit, pineapple and lime custard , ... All |
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