Roast white chocolate is a tip I picked up from Kate Packwood from the Wildflour Bakery. She roasts it until the three key ingredients, sugar, milk and cocoa butter are forced to caramelize. The result is copper toned and altogether more sophisticated than regular white chocolate could ever dream to be. Use it in chunks sprinkled over this rhubarb dessert.
For the poached rhubarb:
500g young or early-forced rhubarb
3 tbsp caster sugar
Juice of 2 oranges
For the rhubarb sorbet:
500g rhubarb, chopped
75g caster sugar
2 tbsp lemon juice
1 vanilla pod, seeds scraped
For the roast white chocolate:
200g white chocolate, best quality, roughly chopped
Sea salt
Saucepan
Blender
Ice-cream machine
Airtight container
Ceramic baking dish
Baking sheet
Rice Pudding is wonderful all year around, it’s one of my ultimate comfort foods and served with poached rhubarb and orange it’s an instant hit of summer. Recipe from The Pleasures of the Table: Rediscovering Theodora Fitzgibbon.
These semolina pancakes are brilliant for anyone with a dairy intolerance as they don’t contain milk and can even be vegan friendly if you avoid the yoghurt and honey. Inspired by one of my favourite Dublin brunch spots, Brother Hubbard, these pancakes are light and quite alternative when served with poached rhubarb, yoghurt and mint.