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A Gift From the Chef: Mum's Chocolate Budino with Honeycomb and Zabaione

A Gift From the Chef: Mum's Chocolate Budino with Honeycomb and Zabaione

by Mireille Kilgour

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There's nothing quite like your mother's cooking. The comfort and warmth of walking in the door to familiar smells, the second helpings that always await you, and that one signature dish that's so good, no other version quite compares. For many of Australia's most iconic chefs, their passions began with their mum's signature home cooking. In the lead up to Mother's Day, our participating restaurants renowned chefs are opening up their mum's cookbooks to share their most loved recipes. This one comes from Popolo's Sydney Head Chef, Naomi Lowry.

Popolo's Sydney Head Chef, Naomi Lowry and her

Mum's Chocolate Budino with Honeycomb and Zabaione

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My mother and my grandmother were both known as the dinner party entertainers throughout the few countries we lived in and dessert was always a department they excelled in. It wasn't the forgotten course, it was the final impression of a wonderful evening with friends and family. This dessert reminds me of my mother Sandie's dinner parties in the '80s, where my sister and I would be in matching Laura Ashley dresses as the waitresses for the evening, plating up and serving a decadent chocolate mousse to her always colourful array of guests. And we'd always sneak a little bit for ourselves before it would leave the kitchen…

Makes 6

Chocolate Budino

Ingredients

Chocolate Budino
200gm 63% chocolate
400gm cream
70gm sugar
25gm water
4 egg yolks
Dark cocoa
Oil spray
Dome shaped silicon moulds

Method

Spray dome silicon mounds with oil spray and dust with cocoa, and put aside.
Place water in a pot and bring to simmer, placing a bowl containing the chocolate over it to melt.
Once chocolate is melted, remove pot with the bowl from heat, but keep the bowl over the water to keep the chocolate warm.
Whisk cream to a medium peak.
Put egg yolks into kitchen aid mixing bowl and start whisking on slow/medium speed.
While the yolks are whisking put sugar and water into a small pot and place on heat. Bring to 121c and then pour over yolks slowly increasing speed to high. Whisk until pale and "fluffy".
Add in chocolate and mix together, then whisk through half of cream. Fold through remaining cream and pour into moulds.
Set in freezer. Once frozen, turn out then store in fridge.

Honeycomb

Ingredients

160gm sugar
25gm honey
62gm glucose
30gm water
12gm bi-carbonate of soda

Method

Line a deep tray with Glad bake.
Place sugar, honey, glucose and water into pot, put in heat and bring to 147c.
Add in sifted bi-carb and whisk through quickly. Do not over whisk as this will make the honeycomb collapse. Pour into lined tray, being very careful as mixture will expand and is very hot.
Allow to cool and then smash to required size.

Cold Zabaione

Ingredients

3 egg yolks
50gm sugar
250gm mascarpone
Marsala to taste
Whisk together, on high speed, sugar and yolks for about 7 minutes. Add in mascarpone and finally Marsala to taste.

Assemble dish

Chocolate budino
Honeycomb
Cold zabaione
Berries – your choice

Method

Place budino on plate and sprinkle honeycomb on plate placing some larger bits too. Add berries and then spoon zabaione over berries.

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Mireille Kilgour

Mireille Kilgour has been an entrepreneur for 35 years in the hospitality sector. French born, she has been an accomplished business owner and operator for a number of Sydney venues. Leading the industry with high profile institutions such as Lamrock Café Bondi, she has endless passion for the industry, and now has the pleasure of supporting restaurants to fill their tables with the new Good Food Gift Card program.