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Chocolate tortellini filled with vanilla-mascarpone accompanied by grapefruit salsa with a hint of strawberry and a mini maple-grapefruit martini
Chocolate tortellini filled with vanilla-mascarpone accompanied by grapefruit salsa with a hint of strawberry and a mini maple-grapefruit martini_pic
Corinne Babshichin
Makes 4 servings
Ingredients

Garnish:
Strawberry coulis (piped on the plates; see recipe below)
Chocolate (melted, then piped on the plates)
8 Flowers (1 yellow gem marigold & 1 white impatient/plate)

Chocolate pasta dough

1 cup all-purpose flour
¼ cup cocoa powder
2 tbsp confectioners’ sugar
½ vanilla bean, seeded
2 eggs
If needed, water

Mascarpone filling

2 tsp grapefruit zest (approximately 1 grapefruit zested)
24 g honey
½ vanilla pod, seeded
¼ tsp all-spice
226g mascarpone cheese

Grapefruit salsa
2 tbsp orange juice
5 segments pink grapefruit, small dice
5 segments white grapefruit, small dice
¼ tsp strawberry coulis (see below for recipe)
2 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp lemon juice

Strawberry coulis
50g sugar
50g water
140g strawberries

Grapefruit mocktini
4oz white grapefruit juice, add extra pulp from pink and white grapefruit
3 star anis
8oz pink grapefruit juice
4oz strawberry coulis
4tsp maple syrup
2oz orange juice
4g grapefruit zest (approximately 2 grapefruit zested)
 

Chocolate pasta dough

  1. Sift flour, cocoa, and sugar together.
  2. Add the vanilla seeds and eggs. 
  3. Mix until combined then knead until smooth. 
  4. Let the dough rest for 30 minutes. 
  5. Then roll out to paper thin and cut into 5cm diameter circles.

Mascarpone filling

  1. Combine all ingredients. 
  2. Place 1 tsp of filling per 5cm diameter dough. 
  3. Close the tortellini, use egg wash as glue.
  4. Make 12 tortellini (3/plate). 
  5. Boil tortellini for 5 minutes.

Grapefruit salsa

  1. Combine all ingredients together. 
  2. When plating, make sure not to plate excessive salsa liquid.

Strawberry coulis

  1. Place all ingredients in a saucepan.
  2. Cook until strawberries are tender and liquid reduced by half. 
  3. Blend.
  4. Strain. 
  5. Place on a bain-marie to keep warm until time to plate.
Grapefruit mocktini
  1. Let the star anis infuse in the grapefruit juice with extra pulp for at least one hour.
  2. Freeze a 1/2cm layer of this star anis flavoured grapefruit juice in each drinking glass.   
  3. Mix together the maple syrup, orange juice, and pink grapefruit juice. 
  4. Pour 3.5oz of the drink into each glass (over the frozen juice layer). 
  5. Then slowly pour 1oz strawberry coulis per glass to create three layers in the glasses.