Cooking with Coffee

[Joris]

I have some recipes for food wherein coffee is an ingredient, so I thought I'd post them. Is there anybody out there who wants to share his/her recipes with coffee in it ?

We'll start with a starter



Chestnut-Coffee soup under a puff paste lid

Starter (4 persons)

Ingredients
1 tablespoon olive oil (1th cold pressing)
50g smoked bacon cubes
1 shallot (sliced 'n diced)
100g chestnuts
3dl veggy bouillon
3dl espresso
1 tablespoon blanching celery (cubes)
1 tablespoon carrot cubes
1 tablespoon leek (thin slices)
1dl whip cream (whipped to a firm foam, unsweetened)
a pinch of sea salt
a pinch of pepper
balsamic
1 sheet puff paste
2 egg yolks

Fry the cubes of bacon in not too hot olive oil until crispy.
Add shallot and chestnuts and leave it to fry for a short while.
Add the veggy bouillon and espressi and boil it on a low fire for 20/30minutes.
When the chestnuts are soft but not falling apart yet remove 1/3rd of the chestnuts.
Mash the soup (as soon as the chestnuts are soft but not falling apart yet)
Add the blanching celery, carrot cubes and leek.
Add the whip cream and stir the soup.
Add a little salt, pepper and balsamic.
Divide the soup and chestnuts among 4 oven-proof bowls
Leave to cool

Preheat the oven at 180C

Now take the puff paste and carve 4 circles out of it (about 1,5cm bigger than diameter of bowls).
Coat about 2cm of the bowls (from rim down, outside) with egg yolk
Put the puff paste circles on the bowls and press it so it sticks to the bowl and closes it off.
Coat the puff paste with the rest of the egg yolk

Put the bowls in the oven until the puff paste is goldenbrown (around 15m).


Note: If I'm correct puff paste are those sheets of dough which are used to make pastries, if not just buy sheets of dough

[Aadje]

Now, Joris, I know you've got another recipe for something very delicious with sugar and coffee . . .

[Joris]

fudge.... Fudge !! FUDGE !!!!!!!!!!

OK, talking about the fattening things in life, here goes

Coffee fudge

Ingredients
To make about 1kg:
550 g sugar
75g vanilla sugar
125g butter
375ml whip cream
125ml full fat milk
3 or 4 ristretti (according to taste)

Mix all ingredients except the ristretti in a pan and slowly get it to boil (keep stirring). While stirring keep the mixture boiling slowly until a small drop of the mixture dropped in cold water forms a soft ball (30 / 40 minutes). The colour is light caramel at this point.

Remove pan from stove, as soon as it doesn't boil anymore add the ristretti and stir to mix t thoroughly though the mixture. Leave to cool for a couple of minutes (don't let it cool too long or it will fuse with the pan ). Now whip the mixture with a wooden spoon until the mixture is thick and mat of colour and the texture is grainy.

Take a pastry mold and coat it with bakingpaper (= literal translation of the dutch word, don't know the english word for it. It's the paper you can put in a pastry mold to prevent the mixture from sticking to the mold). Put the mixture in it and smoothen the surface. Leave to dry.

After 6 hours or so turn the hardened mixture over so the other side can dry.

Leave for another 6 hours and start eating Don't forget to get a membership at a fitness school to work off the fat

[Aadje]

Thanks! Gonna keep this one in mind

[darrensandford]

Baking paper makes enough sense. We have two kinds - greaseproof paper and baking parchment. The greaseproof is perfectly good enough at lining baking tins, baking parchment is treated with silicone to prevent sticking, but is more expensive.

Also, in the first recipe, I would use the word "pastry", not "paste". You can buy puff pasty in sheets ready to bake, which is a good thing because I would hate to make that myself!

I'm not trying to pick faults - I thought I would reply with some more information because you mentioned you wern't sure!

I love the look of that fudge! Oh, I love fudge

[fred25]

Thanks for the recipes Joris! I don't know whether my memory's any good but I seem to remember that you had a recipe for risotto with espresso... If my memory's right, would you mind 'outing' it?

[Joris]

I don't recall ever making risotto so I think you're confusing me with someone else. Would that person please come forward and post that recipe ?

Here's a couple recipes for a main coarse.

Oh, a note, there is a difference between coffeespoon and teaspoon. A teapoon in dutch refers to about 3ml while a coffeespoon is about 5ml, in french it's about the same but... in the UK a teaspoon is about 5ml and they don't know the coffeespoon (iirc). Just to make it confusing
and a cup in dutch is 150ml and in the UK .... 250ml In the recipes I use the dutch measurements so when I say coffeespoon I mean 5ml (the UK teaspoon) and if I say teaspoon it is 3ml. I I say a cup it is 150ml.



Coffee Steak

Ingredients
4 steaks
Olive oil
1 cup strong filter/vacpot coffee
50g butter
2 coffeespoons of Worcester sauce
2 coffeespoons
1 tablespoon lemon juice
a little brown sugar
a couple of drops tobasco
pepper and salt according to taste

Rub the pepper into both sides of the steaks, put some olive oil in a frying pan and cauterize (sear ?) the stakes.
Now add salt according to taste and roast to the level you like it (rare/medium/welldone/shoesole).

Mix the other ingredients in a pan and bring it to the point of boiling, let it simmer for a while and pour over the steaks.



Roastbeef in a brown sauce

6 to 8 persons

Ingredients
125g kidney fat
1,6kg roastbeef
a little bit of flour
1 coffeespoon salt
3 pinches of pepper
1 chopped up onion
1 cup strong filter/vacpot coffee
3 cups of water

Melt the kidney fat in a large (high sides) frying pan on a medium fire and remove the hard parts.
Rub the flour into the meat, put it in he kidney fat and cauterize (sear ?) all sides.
Add the salt, pepper, onion, coffee and water.
Put lid on the pan and leave to stew for at least 1,5 to 2 hours during which time you have to turn the meat over and over.
Bind the sauce with a little flour.



and as dessert......

Peruvian Coffee Pudding

Ingredients
0.5l full fat milk
4 egg yolks
100gr powdered sugar
120g milk chocolat
50gr coffee beans (tried it with MM... delicious!)
25gr vanilla sugar
100gr sugar
whip cream

Grate or break the chocolat into rather small pieces

Bring the milk and the vanilla sugar to the point of boiling.
Throw in the coffee beans, leave them in the boiling milk for about 15min.
Remove the beans from the milk (using a sif or colleander or something)... KEEP THE MILK !

In the mean time:
Heat the sugar in a pan until its colour turns brownish
Add half a glass of warm water
Lower the fire and keep stirring until all sugar is disolved, you should end up with caramel.

Add the chocolat pieces to the caramel, stir for a bit.
Add the chocolat/caramel mixture to the milk/coffee mixture.
Now add the powdered sugar to the egg yolks an whip it until creamy (not too firm), add it to the other mixture.
Heat on a medium fire (do not let it boil !) whilst stirring until it is homogeneous.

Put the pudding into the dessert bowls and leave to cool in the fridge
Whip up the whipped cream to a firm mass (don't forget to add some sugar/sweetener).

Before serving decorate the pudding with the whipped cream and sugared wafers.




After the dessert it's time for coffee and fudge (previous recipe).
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[darrensandford]

Can I just say again:

MMM FUDGE

[fred25]

I don't recall ever making risotto so I think you're confusing me with someone else. Would that person please come forward and post that recipe ?

Apologies for the confusion - that's just proves that my memory is as rubbish as suspected!

Having looked up the thread in question, I found that it was Bruce who mentioned the recipe - so, might I beg the Almighty Bruce for his risotto with espresso recipe then?

(Dare I say that he also mentioned espresso ice-cream that was 'out of this world' ? )

[coffee-dramatist]

WOW!!!!

i had not yet notice this was going on here!!!

Thanx for the kitchen corner

[coffee-dramatist]

i would looooooooooooooooooooooooooove to read about the Coffee Risotto, since i love both and my risotto is quite good

Some ideas need to mature in ones head. Risotto and coffee were not mature in my head yet, but i guess it could indeed work.

[fred25]

It is actually the signature dish of a restaurant call 'Anthonys' in Leeds (UK) - I had it there, and thought it was really nice - which is why I'd be quite keen to have a recipe for it!

[Joris]

Come on Bruce.... post your secret recipes of heavenly rispresso (or essotto ?) and espricecream

[bruceb]

I'm having so much trouble typing one-handed that I'll have to wait until I get this *+)/&%$ cast off (and also until I've found the recipes).

[GreenBean]

I'm having so much trouble typing one-handed that I'll have to wait until I get this *+)/&%$ cast off (and also until I've found the recipes).
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