Raw Danish Pastry
Description
A creative and truly gourmet raw vegan recipe inspired by Danish pastries, served with homemade chocolate sauce and fresh juicy nectarines! Enjoy it for your next weekend brunch!
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Ingredients
Irish Moss Gel:
90 g soaked, rinsed Irish moss (make sure to squeeze out the water before measuring).
0.5 cup filtered Water
Remaining Ingredients for Pastry Dough:
1 cup Macadamia nuts
1 cup shredded Coconut
1.5 teaspoon real Vanilla
5 tablespoons Lúcuma (can be substituted to Mesquite)
1/4 teaspoon Himalayan salt
1.5 tablespoon juice from an organic Lemon
0.5 cup Agave nectar
1 1/4 cup filtered Water
0.5 teaspoon Sunflower lecitin (optional)
Peeled Nectarine halves to go on top.
Melted chocolate:
50 g Cacao butter (1/4 cup as melted)
2 tablespoons raw Cacao powder
2 tablespoons Agave nectar
Methods/steps
Irish Moss Gel:
1) First, make some Irish moss paste by doing the following: Soak about a cup dry irish moss in water until it softens completely. Then go through piece by piece under running water to remove any impurity (small pieces of plastic, sea shells etc.)
2) Put the irish moss in a plastic container with lid and add water, about 2/3 of the container. Put on the lid and shake the container intensely for 30 sec. Change the water and repeat two more times. As you will see the water gets cleaner and cleaner after each time. Don't rinse the irish moss too much though, as it will also wash away the carageenan (a natural gelatine) and the irish moss will not have the desired effect which is to act as a thickening agency. Don't worry about the fishy smell of the irish moss. You won't feel it once you mix it up with the rest of the ingredients!
3) Let the cleaned irish moss soak in water for 3-4 hours for it to swell further.
4) Use a scissor to cut the irish moss into pieces and put it in a high speed blender together with 0.5 cup filtered water and blend until smooth. This will take some time and you will want to work with a spatula to scrape down any bits of irish moss from the inside of the lid and jar of your blender. Your blender is going to heat up from all the blending, so that the irish moss paste become lukewarm. That is good as it activates the carageenan.
5) Transfer the ready made irish moss paste to a little bowl / cup. It should be thick and smooth, not watery. The first time you do this it might seem complicated, but it really isn't. Continue with the rest of the ingredients for the paper thin pastry dough:
Remaining Ingredients for Pastry Dough:
5) Do this with two more mesh screens and put them into the dehydrator and start drying them in 105 F.
Flipping Time: After 12 hours, you can flip the paper thin pastry dough, by putting a mesh net on top of the pastry, hold it firmly with your palms and flip it carefully. Then you remove the mesh net that's been under the downside of the pastry dough, and peel off the mesh sheet by pulling in one corner. It's all quite logic. Continue to dry the pastry dough for another 7-8 hours and you are done.
Total Drying Time: 19-20 hours.
Melted chocolate:
1) In a water bath or by using the dehydrator, melt the Cacao butter slowly. Then blend by using a whisk, with the Cacao powder and Agave nectar until incorporated.
2) Pour in a squeeze bottle if you have one. Otherwise you can drizzle the melted chocolate with a spoon.
Assembly:
1) Assemble the dessert by breaking off pieces in the size of your palm and put them in layers to create height. On top of them you put a ripe, halved and peeled nectarine, then drizzle the melted chocolate over it all.
