Best Chef Lee Anne Wongs Pancakes With Summer Berry Compote Recipes

MELTED WHITE CHOCOLATE SAUCE WITH BERRY COMPOTE

Steps:

• In a saucepan, heat cream to simmering over high heat. Reduce heat to medium and whisk in chocolate until melted. Gently simmer sauce for 10 minutes. Set aside. Make a light sugar syrup by heating the water and sugar together in a medium size saute pan, stirring until the sugar is dissolved. Add the lemon juice and berries to syrup and cook over medium heat 2 to 3 minutes, shaking the pan gently to coat the berries with syrup. Add the butter and continue to cook, swirling the berries and butter around the pan, until butter is melted. Cook for another 5 minutes. Spoon berry compote into ramekins, drizzle with white chocolate sauce and serve.

BLUE CORN-PINON PANCAKES WITH APRICOT-PINON COMPOTE

Steps:

• Prepare the compote: Warm the butter in a small skillet over medium heat. Stir in the pine nuts and saute until lightly toasted, about 2 minutes. Watch the nuts carefully; they will continue cooking off of the heat and can burn easily. In a saucepan, combine the apricots, corn syrup, cinnamon, and almond extract with 1 cup of water. Bring to a simmer over medium heat, reduce the heat to low, and cook until the sauce is fairly thick and spoonable, about 10 minutes. Stir in the pine nuts. Keep the compote warm or let it cool to room temperature.
• Start the pancake batter, placing 3/4 cup of the nuts in a food processor and pulsing briefly until ground. Avoid processing the nuts so long that they turn to butter. Add the flour, cornmeal, sugar, baking powder, and salt and pulse to combine just until a coarse meal forms. Spoon the mixture into a large bowl and stir in the butter until it disappears. Add the eggs, milk, almond extract, and remaining nuts. Warm a griddle or a large heavy skillet over medium heat. Pour a thin film of oil onto the griddle. Pour or spoon out the batter onto the hot griddle, where it should sizzle and hiss. A generous 3 tablespoons of batter will make a 4-inch pancake. Make as many cakes as you can fit without crowding. Cook the pancakes until their top surface is covered in tiny bubbles but before all the bubbles pop, 1 to 2 minutes. Flip the pancakes and cook until the second side is golden brown, 1 to 2 minutes longer. Repeat with the remaining batter, adding a bit more oil to the griddle as needed. Serve the pancakes immediately, accompanied with the warm compote.

CHOCOLATE DOME WITH SUMMER BERRY COMPOTE

Steps:

• Assembly: Pipe chocolate mousse into 4, (2-inch) dome molds. Spread mousse around sides of dome to the top, freeze. Repeat process with mousseline, freeze. Place 3/4-inch disc dacquoise on mousseline. Fill with 3/4-ounce compote. Top with 1 3/4-inch disc dacquoise, freeze. Unmold and glaze. Garnish with tuile and caramel stick.;
• Lime dacquoise: Combine sugar, flour and zest, set aside. Whip egg whites and lime juice into soft peaks, gradually add sugar into stiff peaks. Fold in sugar mixture, spread in a half sheet pan lined with parchment. Sprinkle with toasted almonds and bake in a preheated 380-degree oven for 12 minutes. Cool and cut into 4 (1 3/4-inch) discs and 4 (3/4-inch) discs. Summer berry compote: Combine sugar, flour and zest, set aside. Whip egg whites and lime juice into soft peaks, gradually add sugar into stiff peaks. Fold in sugar mixture, spread in a half sheet pan lined with parchment. Sprinkle with toasted almonds and bake in a preheated 380-degree oven for 12 minutes. Cool and cut into 4 (1 3/4-inch) discs and 4 (3/4-inch) discs. Chocolate mousse: Combine sugar, yolks and heavy cream. Whisk over bain marie constantly until thickened. Scald cream and add the heavy cream. Temper with the egg mixture. Fold in the whipped cream and use immediately. Vanilla mousseline: Bring milk and vanilla beans to boil. Ribbon yolks, sugar and flanc powder. Temper yolks with milk and cook for 3 minutes. Remove from heat, add softened gelatine. Add butter, cool to room temperature. Fold in whipped cream and use immediately.
• Chocolate tuille: Cream butter and sugar. Gradually add egg whites. Add flour and cocoa powder. Mix until smooth. Spread batter into 10 by 3-inch rectangle. Bake in a preheated 375-degree oven for 7 minutes. Immediately cut into 4 triangles with a 1/2-inch base. Wrap warm tuile around dome to form garnish. Cool completely and store in airtight container. Caramel sticks: Combine and cook until golden brown. Spoon caramel onto silpat, forming 6 inch long sticks. Cool and store in airtight container. Chocolate glaze: Bring sugar, water and apricot glaze to a boil. Add cocoa powder, pate a glacer and cocoa paste. Stir until melted and cook for 4 minutes. Add softened gelatin. Strain and store covered.

YOGURT SPONGE CAKE WITH FALL BERRY COMPOTE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease an 8-inch round cake pan. Line the bottom with parchment paper and set aside.
• Combine the safflower oil, fructose, vanilla, milk and yogurt in a mixing bowl. Sift together the cake flour and baking soda. Stir into the yogurt mixture.
• Beat the egg whites until stiff but not dry. Fold into the cake batter. Pour the batter into the prepared pan. Bake about 30 to 35 minutes or until done.
• Cool in the pan on a wire cooling rack for 10 minutes. Then unmold and cool completely before serving
• Place the pears, apple, lemon juice, fructose and water in a small saucepan over medium high heat. Bring to a boil then reduce heat and simmer until the fruit softens, about 8 minutes. Add more water if the sauce seems too dry.
• Add the raspberries and cook a few minutes until they begin to release some of their liquid.
• Serve the sauce warm or cold with a light sponge cake