Salted caramel banana tatins with crème fraîche ice cream

Name: Salted caramel banana tatins with crème fraîche ice cream
Prep time: 55 min
Cook time: 55 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 vanilla pod; 200 milliliters double cream; 100 milliliters milk; 3 egg yolks; 85 grams golden caster sugar; 300 milliliters full-fat crème fraîche; 250 grams puff pastry; 1 banana, peeled; 50 grams soft light brown sugar; 50 grams butter; 2 Tbsps double cream

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Instructions

To make the ice cream, split the vanilla pod in half lengthways and scrape out the seeds.

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Vanilla Bean

Ice Cream

Seeds

Put the pod and seeds in a saucepan with the cream and milk, and bring slowly to the boil. Meanwhile, in a bowl, whisk the egg yolks and sugar together until pale.

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Egg Yolk

Cream

Seeds

Sugar

Milk

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Whisk

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Pour the hot cream mixture over the egg and sugar, whisking continuously.

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Cream

Sugar

Egg

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Whisk

Pour back into the pan, set over a gentle heat and stir with a wooden spoon.

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Heat gently until the custard mixture thickens enough to coat the back of the spoon, then remove from the heat.

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Custard

Pour the crme frache into a bowl and whisk to loosen. Slowly pour in the hot custard mixture, whisking as you go.

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Custard

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Whisk

Bowl

Pour the mixture into an ice-cream machine and churn until softly frozen.

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Cream

Ice

Transfer to a container, then freeze for 2 hrs to firm.

To make the Tatins, roll out the pastry on a floured surface to the thickness of a 1 coin. Using the banana as a guide, cut out 2 pastry lids big enough to fit over the banana, leaving a 1cm border around the edge.

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Banana

Roll

Place the pastry on a baking tray and put in the fridge.

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Set an ovenproof, heavy-bottomed frying pan over a medium heat.

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Frying Pan

Add the sugar, butter and cream, and cook for 5 mins until the sugar has melted and the caramel is bubbling.

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Caramel

Butter

Cream

Sugar

Add tsp sea salt flakes. Slice the banana in half lengthways and place the 2 halves, cut-side down, into the caramel.

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Sea Salt

Caramel

Banana

Heat oven to 220C/200C fan/gas

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Place a pastry lid on top of each banana half, tucking each in tightly around the edges. This can be done 1 hr ahead.

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Banana

Transfer the pan to the oven and cook for 20 mins until the pastry is risen and golden. Quickly and carefully turn out the Tatins, sprinkle with a few flakes of sea salt and serve with scoops of crme frache ice cream.

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Ice Cream

Sea Salt

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