FLOATING ISLAND

WITH TAPIOCA PUDDING

Apricot Floating Island

Apricot Sunny Side-up

Apricot Tatin

| Tapioca Pudding | Compote & Chips | Swiis Meringue & Work | To SERVE |

 TAPIOCA PUDDING

   - 5 qt Milk

   - 400 gm Tapioca Pearls

   - 9 cans Coconut Milk

   - 500 gm Sugar

   -  30 gm Salt

  Mix 1 quart milk and Tapioca and let sit for 1 hour .

 Strain and wash .

 Cook in 2 quarts milk until 1/2 cooked .

 Add coco milk , sugar , salt and 2 quarts of milk .

 Cool over ice bath .

 APRICOT COMPOTE & CHIPS

   - 500 ml Water

   - 100 gm SUgar

   - 1 Vanilla bean Halved and scraped

   - 500 gm Apricot

 Bring sugar , water and vanilla to a boil .

 Halve and pit apricots .

 Poach for 10 minute in syrup .

 Allow to cool in syrup then drain .

 Remove and discard skin from apricots and reserve .

 Puree 1/3 with some of the cooking liquid and dry for chips .

 LIME LEAF CREME FRAICHE

   - 8 oz Crème Fraiche

   - 2 tbs Lime leaf powder

 WHip until thick .

 SWISS MERINGUE - YIELDS 32 PORTIONS

   - 1 kilo Sugar

   - 1 kilo egg whites

   - Juice of 1 lemon

 Combine in a bowl and warm over medium heat to 125 F .

 Put into mixer and whip until cool and firm .

 Pipe into ramequin soufflé dish coated with butter spray .

 Bake in a aluminum covered water bath that was filled with hot water for 20 minutes at 225 F .

 Once baked remove from bath and put in fridge for 1 hour .

 Unmold , cut outside with a circle cutter to make uniform and leave ring on .

 With a smaller cutter , remove inside of meringue leaving about 3/3" thickness .

 Reserve inner ring .

 MERINGUE DISC

   - 200 gm egg whites 

   - 400 gm Sugar

 Whip egg whites then add sugar .

 Use a stencil the same size as the outer circle of meringue . lay stencil on silpat and fill to 1/4"thick .

 Bake at 200F for about 1 hour or until dry .

 TO SERVE

 Flip ring with meringue into a bowl . FIll with compote .

 Pour tapioca around .

 Hold meringue with one hand and remove ring with tyhe other , making sure that the apricot doesn't leak into tapioca .

 Place a quenelle of cream onto disc .

 Sprinkle with powdered sugar and lime leaf powder .

 Place disc with cream on top of meringue. 

 Garnish with apricot chips .