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Recipe using Saint-Nectaire: Crème brulée with chestnusts and Saint-Nectaire cheese
Pudding
Saint-Nectaire
Moderate
Reasonable
Preparation: 10 mins
Cooking time: 90 mins
8 people
- 8 egg yolks
- 100 g icing sugar
- 100 g chesnut purée (unsweetened)
- 100 g Saint-Nectaire cheese
- 10 cl chestnut liqueur
- 1 litre crème fraîche
- brown sugar
- Cut the Saint-Nectaire cheese into slices.
- Mix in th following order, the egg yolks, the sugar, the chestnut purée, the Saint-nectaire, the chestnut liqueur and the cream.
- Cook at 212°F for 90 mins (do not exceed this temperature).
- Before serving, sprinkle with brown sugar and place under the grill (or brown the sugar with a blow torch).
Conseils
Prepare this dish the night before to give it time to cool down completely.
Recipe by Jean-Marc Pourcher.
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