Coconut Soup with Caramelized Lychees and Mango Tofu
- 1 quart coconut milk
- 4 1/2 ounces sugar
- 3 tablespoons gelee bavaroise
- Caramelized Lychees, recipe follows
- Mango Tofu, recipe follows
- In a heavy saucepan, heat the coconut milk and sugar over medium-low heat until the mixture reaches 120 degrees F. Add the gelee, and stir to incorporate.
- Remove from the heat and pour into a bowl.
- Refrigerate until completely chilled.
- Do not serve until soup is very cold.
- Ladle soup into bowls and float the Caramelized Lychees and Mango Tofu in the soup.
- 24 to 32 lychee fruits
- Orange Marmalade, recipe follows
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 cups water
- Peel and pit the lychees.
- Fill the hole where the pit was with Orange Marmalade and set aside.
- Make a simple syrup by combining the sugar and water in a heavy small saucepan; bring to a boil over high heat and cook just until all the sugar dissolves.
- Pour 1/3 of the syrup into a heavy large skillet and add the lychees to the skillet.
- Cook, over high heat, until the lychees are caramelized.
- Add the remaining syrup, stir carefully to combine, and remove from the heat.
- Just before serving, add 2 caramelized lychees to each bowl of soup.
- 2 pounds oranges, peeled and seeded
- 1 pound sugar
- 7 ounces water
- Combine all ingredients in a large heavy saucepan and bring to a boil over high heat and until all the sugar has dissolved.
- Reduce the heat and simmer until thickened to the consistency of marmalade.
- 13 cups mango puree
- 4 ounces gelatin
- 1 quart cream
- 1 pound sugar
- In a heavy saucepan, heat about 1/3 of the mango puree until almost simmering.
- Dissolve the gelatin in the mango puree and stir to incorporate.
- Set aside.
- Whip the cream in a bowl of a mixer until soft peaks form, slowly adding the sugar in small quantities.
- Then fold in the mango puree and gelatin mixture.
- Fold in the remaining mango puree.
- Pour the mixture into a cold sheet pan.
- Place the pan in the freezer until firm enough to cut.
- Then cut into 1 1/4 by 1 1/4-inch pieces.
- Just before serving, float 1 or 2 pieces of Mango Tofu in the soup.
coconut milk, sugar, gelee bavaroise, follows, mango
Taken from www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/coconut-soup-with-caramelized-lychees-and-mango-tofu-recipe.html (may not work)