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Boston Baked Bean Gratin Recipe


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Ingredients
  • 1 ts Coffee granules
  • Miniature bottle of Baileys
  • Icing sugar for dusting
  • 1 Banana; peeled & sliced
  • 4 sl Orange
  • 1 tb sliced fresh mint
  • 3 Figs; 1 sliced
  • Mint sprigs to decorate
  • 4 tb Demerara sugar
  • 4 tb & 2 tsps clear honey
  • 1 Lime; Zest of
  • 15 g Butter
  • 1 ts Cocoa powder
  • 12 Sheets fresh filo pastry
  • 1 250 gram tub fromage frais
  • 125 g Blueberries
  • Melted butter for brushing filo
  • 1 100 gram pac Brazil nuts

Directions
  • Step #1 preheat your trusty oven to 200c/400f/Gas 6.
  • Step #2 1 Heat a small frying pan & dry fry the brazil nuts until golden.
  • Step #3 Put in a bowl & mix with 1 tbsp honey & the cocoa powder.
  • Step #4 2 Butter two filo sheets & dust with icing sugar.
  • Step #5 Place over the top of a 4" tin Yorkshire pudding tray.
  • Step #6 Cut off the excess pastry round each case & mould into the individual tins.
  • Step #7 3 Fill one with orange slices Sprinkle topd with half the lime zest, one with the sliced fig Sprinkle topd with half the lime zest & two with the nuts.
  • Step #8 4 Bake the cases in the oven until the pastry is golden.
  • Step #9 Meanwhile, melt the butter in a small saucepan, add 1 tbsp honey & the demerara sugar & serve some with the filo tartlets dusted with icing sugar.
  • Step #10 5 Individually scrunch four sheets of filo pastry sheets & place on a baking tray.
  • Step #11 Brush with melted butter, dust with icing sugar and bake for 2-3 mins or until golden.
  • Step #12 6 Layer up four buttered sheets of filo on a non-stick baking tray or lightly oiled tray.
  • Step #13 Dust with icing sugar & pour on 1 tbsp honey.
  • Step #14 Prick all over.
  • Step #15 Bake for three mins or until golden.
  • Step #16 7 When cool, layer with the banana slices & two thirds of the blue- berries.
  • Step #17 Decorate with the scrunched tops of the filo & serve this with the remaining toffee sauce.
  • Step #18 8 Cut a 2cm/1" deep cross in the top of two figs.
  • Step #19 Put 1 heaped tsp fromage frais in each of the cuts with 1 tsp honey.
  • Step #20 Wrap in a double layer of buttered filo.
  • Step #21 9 Scrunch the top together & leave to set in the fridge.
  • Step #22 Bake in the oven for 4-5 mins & decorate with mint.
  • Step #23 10 Put the remaining fromage frais in a bowl & stir through 1 tbsp honey, the coffee granules & the sliced mint.
  • Step #24 11 Place a quarter of the blueberries in the base of a sundae dish & top this with the coffee cream mix.
  • Step #25 Sprinkle top with a few blueberries & top this with the Bailey's.
  • Step #26 --.
  • Enjoy the Boston Baked Bean Gratin recipe

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