SUMMER RECIPES - Every day, our culinary reporter Marion Sauveur offers a simple, tasty and easy-to-make recipe. Friday, she offers us to concoct a raspberry-chocolate ganache. 

Available from April to November, summer is in the heart of the raspberry season. But as it is not always easy to choose a tray on the market, here are some tips. They must be fleshy, not too damaged. And you also have to look at the bottom of the tray. If there is liquid, it means that the fruit is not so fresh. 

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Finally, make sure to store it at room temperature so that it retains all its flavors and to eat raspberries within two or three days maximum. How to cook this fruit? Europe 1 offers you a simple and succulent recipe: that of raspberry-chocolate ganache. 

Ingredients 

500 g raspberries

50 g sugar

200 g dark chocolate

100 g crème fraîche 35% minimum fat 

The recipe for raspberry-chocolate ganache

1. We start by washing the raspberries under a light stream of water. Be careful, not with plenty of water, otherwise they will get waterlogged and taste less. If they are too acidic, they are mixed with a little sugar. 

2. Mix until a very homogeneous mixture is obtained. You will still have the raspberry seeds that will tickle your palate, but if it bothers you: pass this puree through a sieve. And besides if you have any left, don't hesitate to put it aside, in a yogurt, it's a delight! You need as much mash as chocolate. 

3. We detail the chocolate in a square. It must be very rich in cocoa.

4. We add our raspberry puree.

5. The fat cream (35% fat) is boiled before pouring it over the chocolate. 

6. Wait until the chocolate has melted and then mix with a spatula. Slowly from the center. Be careful not to mix vigorously to avoid entering too much air. The ganache will take on texture and become very shiny. 

7. Let cool overnight. 

8. And the next day, you can garnish a tart shell with your preparation and add a few fresh raspberries on top. 

If you don't want to cook 

If you don't want to bother cooking, you can enjoy a raspberry-chocolate dessert at the restaurant "Au clair de la Plume" in Grignan, in the Drôme. The pastry chef Cédric Perret makes a very nice dessert around the raspberry. He mounts a blond chocolate and raspberry ganache, with blackcurrant, balsamic vinegar and celery for balance. All accompanied by a raspberry pastry tile, and of course fresh raspberries. A very interesting composition!

Cédric Perret's recipe: Raspberry kewane

For ten people

Ingredients :

For the mounted ganache 

50 gr of cream

100 gr kewane shock

6 gr of glucose

70 gr of cream

For raspberry extraction

200 gr of raspberry                                                     

20 gr of sugar                                                 

2 gr of pectin nH

For the raspberry jam

100 gr raspberry pulp                   

50 gr of sugar  

For raspberry straw

10 gr starch                                                                                                                               

30 gr of flour                                                 

400 gr raspberry juice

90 gr egg white     

100 gr icing sugar

For seasoning

20 gr celery branch in small cubes

Balsamic vinegar

125 gr raspberries

50 gr blackcurrant

1. Start by making the ganache. Make a ganache with the cream, chocolate and glucose, add the cold cream to the ganache, whisk like a whipped cream. Keep refridgerated.

2.  For extraction: cook the raspberries under vacuum with sugar and pectin at 82 ° for 3 hours, then strain the juice and keep the pulp

3.  For the jam: de-seed the raspberry pulp and make a jam with the sugar                                              

4. For the straw: make as a pastry cream and allow to cool, before spreading using a chocolate ruler on a 12 cm baking sheet. Cook at 150 ° for six minutes, then roll around a stainless steel tube.

Presentation :

Poach the mounted ganache with a pastry bag, then add three blackcurrant berries, a little raspberry jam and celery cubes. Arrange the raspberries on the right of the poached ganache and the tube on the right. Add a few drops of vinegar to the raspberries and serve. Add the raspberry extract to the table.