013 - Worth the "Pain" Perdu

The Thought:

Well! It took a lot of time to reach our next destination & frankly speaking, i blame the distance from our last dish to the one I present today
In many ways, Indian cuisine & the French cuisine do not have a lot of things in common. The taste's, texture & presentation are to name a few

Today! I present a dish that's inspired by a show based in Australia, cooked by an amazing french chef (Philippe Mouchel) of PM24 fame.

The job I have tried is to possibly try to re create it, INDIAN STYLE

So without further adeau!

Mangez bien, riez souvent, aimez beaucoup ( "Eat well, laugh often, love abundantly." )


PAIN PERDU (With Citrus Salad topped with Butterscotch & Honey ice cream)

The Ingredients

There are 4 parts to this dish

1. The citrus salad
2. The Ice Cream
3. The Base bread
4. The Caramel Topping


For the Citrus salad, you will need

a. Orange Peel (Minus the Pith)
b. Sugar
c. Water


For the Ice Cream

a. I chose to buy the Butterscotch ice cream & top it with loads of honey before allowing it to reset in the freezer

For the Base Bread

a. Bread, not cut. Full. Atleast 3-4 days old (Fresh made bread can break up easily)
b. Eggs, a couple
c. Milk

For the Caramel Topping

a. Sugar
b. Orange juice
c. Peeled & Sliced Orange & Grapefruits if you have any


How to make


1. Prepare the Caramel topping first considering it needs atleast a couple of hours in the fridge. To make the caramel & oranges. Pour around a cup of sugar into a small pan & allow it to liquidify
The best way to prepare the best form of caramel is not to add the entire cup at one shot but to add smaller portions slowly. Once thats done, add a bowl of Orange juice and stir continuously.

2. Add this mixture to peeled oranges and grapefruit. Allow it to cool off in the fridge for sometime. Not freezer

3. For the Citrus salad, blanche the peel twice or thrice to lose the bitterness & then soak it in a mixture of sugar syrup

4. For the base bread, first create a mixture of Milk, couple of eggs and sugar & whisk it & leave it aside

5. Cut the full bread into tinier pieces of around 3 cms each. Soak the bread in ur mixture & toss it up on a pan & allow it to caramelize on all sides



Plating

1. Place the base bread once its done its share of caramelization
2. Toss it up with a couple of spoons of your caramel topping & oranges
3. Add the ice cream on the top
4. Top it up with some citrus salad

Tada!

Seems so simple. Try it on! & trust me, you ll lose a lot more weight than gaining courtesy of all that calories

Regards

Karthik "Foodie" GB
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