Best Pistachio Popover Cremes Brulees With Grand Marnier Syrup Recipes

GRAND MARNIER CREME BRULEE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F.
• Whisk egg yolks and 7 tablespoons sugar in medium bowl until thick and pale yellow, about 2 minutes.
• Bring cream to a simmer in heavy small saucepan.
• Gradually whisk hot cream into yolk mixture.
• Whisk in Grand Marnier and vanilla; divide custard among six 3/4-cup custard cups.
• Arrange cups in 13x9x2-inch metal pan. Pour enough hot water into pan to come halfway up sides of cups.
• Bake custards until gently set in center, about 25 minutes.
• Remove cups from water and refrigerate uncovered until cold, at least 3 hours. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and keep chilled.)
• Preheat broiler. Place custards on baking sheet. Sprinkle 1/2 tablespoon brown sugar onto each. Broil until sugar starts to bubble and color, turning sheet often to prevent burning, about 2 minutes. Chill until topping is hard and brittle, at least 1 hour and up to 6 hours.

GRAND MARNIER CREME BRULEE

Steps:

• Preheat oven 300 degrees.
• Whisk yolks and sugar until thick and pale yellow. Set aside.
• In saucepan, heat cream. Temper into yolks. Simmer on low, stirring constantly until thickened and coats spoon. Do not over heat.(170 degrees).
• Remove from heat and whisk in Grand Marnier and vanilla.
• Pour mixture into individual ramekins.
• Place ramekins in large baking dish. Pour water around ramekins until half way up sides.
• Bake 300 for 45 minutes.
• Remove ramekins from water bath and chill at least 3 hours or overnight.
• To serve: Sprinkle with brown sugar. Place under broiler until sugar starts to bubble and color.

CREME BRULEE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F.
• In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, mix the egg, egg yolks, and 1/2 cup of the sugar together on low speed until just combined. Meanwhile, scald the cream in a small saucepan until it's very hot to the touch but not boiled. With the mixer on low speed, slowly add the cream to the eggs. Add the vanilla and orange liqueur and pour into 6 to 8-ounce ramekins until almost full.
• Place the ramekins in a baking pan and carefully pour boiling water into the pan to come halfway up the sides of the ramekins. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes, until the custards are set when gently shaken. Remove the custards from the water bath, cool to room temperature, and refrigerate until firm.
• To serve, spread 1 tablespoon of sugar evenly on the top of each ramekin and heat with a kitchen blowtorch until the sugar carmelizes evenly. Allow to sit at room temperature for a minute until the caramelized sugar hardens.

PISTACHIO POPOVER CREMES BRULEES WITH GRAND MARNIER SYRUP

Steps:

• Scrape seeds from vanilla bean into cream in a 2-quart heavy saucepan, then add pod and bring to a simmer over moderate heat. Remove from heat, then steep, covered, 20 minutes.
• Discard pod.
• Preheat oven to 325°F.
• Whisk together yolks, sugar, and a pinch of salt, then add hot cream in a slow stream, whisking constantly. Pour through a fine sieve into glass loaf pan. Cover pan with foil and bake custard in a hot water bath until set but with center still slightly wobbly, about 1 hour.
• Remove foil and cool custard in pan on a rack, then chill, covered, until firm, at least 4 hours.
• Scrape seeds from vanilla bean into juice in cleaned 2-quart heavy saucepan, then add pod and sugar. Bring to a boil over moderately high heat, stirring until sugar is dissolved, then boil until reduced to about 1 1/4 cups, about 20 minutes. Remove from heat, then discard pod and stir in Grand Marnier. Cool to room temperature.
• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Chop enough pistachios to measure 2 tablespoons. Pulse remaining nuts with regular granulated sugar in a food processor until finely ground. Add flour and salt and pulse to combine. Add milk, butter, and eggs and blend until just combined. Pour batter into well-buttered popover cups, filling them two-thirds full.
• Bake in lower third of oven until popovers are puffed and well browned, about 40 minutes. Cut a 1/2-inch slit in top of each popover and bake 10 minutes more. Immediately turn popovers out onto rack to cool.
• Cut off tops of cooled popovers and arrange in a baking dish. Brush tops with some syrup and heat in oven until warm, about 3 minutes.
• While tops are heating, fill bottoms of popovers with custard. Sprinkle 1 teaspoon superfine sugar evenly over each custard, then move blowtorch flame evenly back and forth just over sugar until sugar is melted and caramelized.
• Transfer popovers with tops to plates and spoon some syrup around each. Sprinkle with chopped nuts.