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Gourmet Gianduia Mignon
A chocolate and hazelnut flavoured modern mignon, with a crunchy and creamy texture
Giancarlo Alosa
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Components
1. Onice Chocolate Mousse
350 g Cream
300 g Onice Dark Chocolate
350 g Semi-whipped cream
3 g Powdered gelatine
15 g Water

Heat the cream and pour over the chocolate. Add the rehydrated gelatine. Emulsify and cool. Combine with the semi-whipped cream.

2. Inverse foam
750 g 35% Cream
300 g Ebano Milk
100 g Hazelnut Paste
7 g Isinglass
35 g Water

Heat the cream, add the softened insinglass and chocolate combined with the hazelnut paste. Emulsify and place in the fridge. Whisk up as needed.

3. Dark Chocolate Bisquit
500 g Butter
500 g Sugar
500 g Eggs
500 g Almond flour
150 g Weak flour
80 g Cocoa 22/24 Dark
4 g Salt
q.b. Vanilla

Beat the butter and sugar together, and then drizzle in the eggs. Finally add the flours and the flavourings. Bake at a temperature of 180°C for around 12 minutes.

4. Hazelnut Croccantino
250 g Ebano Milk
160 g Hazelnut Paste
100 g Artisan Hazelnut Praline
500 g Crunchy Flakes
15 g Sunflower seed oil

Melt the chocolate and add the rest of the ingredients. Roll out to a thickness of 4mm.

5. Chocolate Glaze
150 g Water
300 g Caster Sugar
300 g DE40 glucose syrup
300 g Onice Dark Chocolate
200 g Condensed milk
20 g Sheets of gelatine
100 g Water

Prepare a mixture of water, sugar and glucose syrup. Heat to a temperature of 105°C. Take a tall container and pour in the condensed milk, the chocolate and the gelatine. Use at a temperature of 28°/30° C.

Assembly and decoration

Pour the mousse into the mould. Once the bisquit has been made, spread over some of the croccantino, cut according to the size of the mould, then place over the mousse. Glaze with cold frosting and move the dessert onto a base of pastry cut to size. Whisk the inverse foam into a peak and finish off the dessert.

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