Strawberry Passion-Fruit Sables

Name: Strawberry Passion-Fruit Sables
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 apricot, pitted and cut into pieces; 315 milliliters confectioners sugar; 2 larges egg yolks; 473 milliliters all-purpose flour; 2 Tbsps superfine granulated sugar; 2 teaspoons grenadine (optional); 355 milliliters chilled heavy cream; 1 mango, peeled and fruit cut from pit; 1 peach, pitted and cut into pieces; 680 grams (1-inch) strawberries, trimmed and halved lengthwise; 2 sticks (3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons) unsalted butter, softened; 59 milliliters boiling-hot water

Strawberry Passion-Fruit Sables is a vegetarian main course. This recipe serves 4. One portion of this dish contains approximately 12g of protein, 77g of fat, and a total of 1204 calories. This recipe covers 26% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes. It will be a hit at your Mother's Day event. A mixture of flour, mango, butter, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so delicious. To use up the flour you could follow this main course with the Apple Tart with Caramel Sauce as a dessert.

Instructions

Beat together butter, confectioners sugar, and yolks with an electric mixer at low speed until just combined. Increase speed to medium-high and beat until pale and fluffy. Reduce speed to medium and beat in flour until just combined. Form dough into a disk and chill, wrapped in plastic wrap, at least 1 hour.

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Powdered Sugar

Butter

Dough

All Purpose Flour

Egg Yolk

Wrap

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Hand Mixer

Plastic Wrap

Purée peach, apricot, and half of mango (save remaining for filling) with superfine sugar and boiling water in a blender until smooth, then force through a fine-mesh sieve into a bowl, discarding solids. Chill coulis, loosely covered.

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Superfine Sugar

Apricot

Mango

Peach

Water

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Blender

Sieve

Bowl

Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 350°F.

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Oven

Let dough stand at room temperature until just soft enough to roll out, about 10 minutes.

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Dough

Roll

Roll out dough on a lightly floured surface with a lightly floured rolling pin to 3/4 inch thick.

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Dough

Roll

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Rolling Pin

Cut out 8 rounds with ring mold and arrange, about 1 inch apart, on an ungreased baking sheet. (Chill scraps for another use.)

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Baking Sheet

Bake cookies until edges are beginning to brown and tops are still very pale, about 10 minutes. Cool cookies on a rack.

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Oven

Halve passion fruits crosswise and scrape pulp with seeds into cleaned blender.

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Fruit

Seeds

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Blender

Add remaining half of mango, grenadine (if using), and superfine sugar, then purée. Force purée through sieve into a large bowl. Beat in cream with cleaned beaters at high speed until it just holds stiff peaks.

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Superfine Sugar

Grenadine

Cream

Mango

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Sieve

Bowl

Divide coulis among 4 plates. Center 1 cookie in coulis on 1 plate.

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Place ring mold used to cut dough on top of cookie. Arrange strawberry halves cut sides against inside of mold and points of berries pointing up. Spoon one fourth of cream filling into center of mold, then remove ring and top with a cookie. Dust top with confectioners sugar. Assemble 3 more sablés in same manner.

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Powdered Sugar

Strawberries

Berries

Cream

Dough

• Sablé cookies can be baked 3 days ahead and cooled completely, then kept in an airtight container at room temperature. • Coulis can be prepared 4 hours ahead and chilled, covered. • Passion-fruit purée, without cream, can be prepared 1 day ahead and chilled, covered.

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Passion Fruit