Method
Ingredients
Ingredients
Pineapple
- 1 pineapple, peeled and quartered
- 600ml water
- 90g caster sugar
- 16 whole cloves
- 1 cinnamon stick, broken into quarters
- 1 red chilli, de-seeded and roughly chopped
- 1 vanilla pod, halved lengthways and seeds scraped
- 40g ginger, peeled and thinly sliced
- 2 tbsp tamarind paste
Rice Ice Cream
- 150g Tilda Arborio rice
- 600ml full fat milk
- 60g caster sugar
- 75ml condensed milk
- 15g glucose
- 50ml double cream
- ½ leaf gelatine
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil for frying
Pineapple Tuille
- 1/4 pineapple
- 20g icing sugar
Coconut Gel
- 200ml of coconut milk
- 2g of agar agar
Rice Granola with Pistachio
- 200g Tilda Arborio rice
- 50g pistachio
- 20g fresh coconut
- 30g palm sugar
- 3 tbsp vegetable oil
Method
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For the Pineapple - Add the water, sugar, cloves, cinnamon, red chillies, vanilla pod, ginger and tamarind paste together in a saucepan.
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Bring ingredients to a boil.
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Peel and quarter the pineapple, then add to the stock.
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Place cartouche over the saucepan and cook until pineapple is slightly soft.
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Leave to cool in stock.
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Place on a metal rack and cook in oven until a caramelised golden colour.
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For the Rice Ice Cream - Heat the milk and reduce slowly to 450ml.
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Heat the oil and toast the rice in a saucepan until deep golden. Add the reduced milk and leave to infuse for 20 minutes.
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Sieve the milk and rice mix, discard the rice and return the milk back to a pan.
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Heat the rice infused milk with the sugar, condensed milk and the glucose until the sugar has dissolved.
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Soak the gelatine in cold water until soft, heat the cream, dissolve the gelatine in the cream then add this to the rice milk.
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For the Pineapple Tuille - Slice pineapple on a mandolin.
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Place slices on silpat mat and dust with icing sugar.
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Leave to dry in hot cabinet.
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For the Coconut Gel - Bring ingredients to a boil for 1 minute then pour onto a tray to set.
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Once it has set, blitz in a blender until smooth and pass through a fine sieve.
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Transfer to a squeezey bottle.
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For the Rice Granola with Pistachio - Cook the rice in a saucepan of boiling water.
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Once cooked drain and rinse off the excess starch under warm running water.
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Drain again and separate the grains onto a baking tray.
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Dry the grains out in the oven at 70C until they are dry and crisp.
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Heat the oil in a saucepan. Add the rice grains to the pan and cover with a lid.
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Constantly shake the pan over a medium to high heat (just as you would do when making popcorn) until all grains puff and slightly golden.
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Leave to cool.
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Lightly toast the pistachios and then roughly chop.
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Microplane the palm sugar and coconut and add this to the rice along with the chopped pistachios.
