PAIN PERDU WITH ROASTED FRUITS AND GLAZED ALMOND SABAYON
Ingredients
- 1 orange
- juice only
- 1 vanilla pod
- seeds only
- 150g/5½oz caster sugar
- 2 white peaches
- pitted and cut into wedges
- 150g/5½oz raspberries
- 3 free-range eggs and 1 free-range yolk
- beaten
- 75g/2½oz salted butter
- 2 slices fruit bread or brioche
- 1–2 drops almond essence
- 4 free-range egg yolks
- 50g/1¾oz caster sugar
- 3 tbsp dark rum
Directions
- Heat the orange juice
- half the vanilla pod and most of the sugar in a saucepan to make a syrup. Add the peaches
- remove from the heat after a few minutes and add the raspberries. Set aside.
- To make the sabayon
- place a glass bowl over a saucepan of barely simmering water. Add all the ingredients and whisk continuously
- until pale and thick. Remove the bowl from the heat and whisk the mixture until cool.
- To make the pain perdu
- mix the eggs and egg yolk with the other half of the vanilla seeds. Add the bread slices and soak for 2 minutes.
- Melt the butter in a large frying pan. When foaming
- add the soaked bread and fry until golden on both sides. Sprinkle with sugar.
- Top the pain perdu with the fruits and spoon over the sabayon. Glaze with a blow torch and serve.

