Berry yogurt brulee
I saw the recipe for Blueberry Yogurt Brulee the other day, and thought that it sounded really good. Today turned out to be shopping day, so I managed to get the ingredients and try it.
Despite this being the first time I had ever used my (now six-month-old) culinary torch, I think it turned out rather tastily, even if the presentation wasn’t great. But it works for My First Food Porn.
Here’s my version of the recipe.
Ingredients:
• Some berries
• Some plain yogurt
• Some brown sugar
1) Take the berries and yogurt, and mix it up to taste. I ended up using frozen berries (we’re paying for a new fridge this month, unfortunately, or I would’ve used fresh), lightly thawed in the microwave. I also ended up using vanilla yogurt, though I had meant to buy plain. The vanilla worked out, though.
2) Spoon the yogurt into small oven-safe ramekins.
3) Sprinkle a layer of sugar on top. Here’s where I went wrong; the original recipe said to sprinkle the sugar on and evenly brown it with the torch. I misinterpreted that as “sprinkle brown sugar and use the torch”.
4) Use the culinary torch in a swift circular motion over the sugar to brown it. I ended up using too much torch time on the sugar, which ignited it, much like a marshmalllow can ignite if held too close to a campfire. I threw out one big chunk of charred sugar, and then blew out smaller pieces as they ignited. (Note, always have a fire extinguisher or water within easy reach when working with fire. Very important.)
The sugar layer never really got hard, though there were patches that hardened. It did brown nicely, though, and turned out to be quite good; the picture above is of a ramekin that had already had a taste scooped out of it.
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