These decadent chocolate tacos are full of different flavours and textures – crunchy popcorn, creamy ganache and pops of aerated chocolate, which Sarah makes herself but you can use a shop-bought version for ease. It's a delightfully playful dish.
For the sorbet, first place the water into a pan and warm to 40°C
Whisk together the skimmed milk powder, caster sugar and atomised glucose
Add the dry ingredients to the water with the lemon zest, trimoline and stabiliser
Cook the mixture to 83°C
Mix in the white chocolate and miso paste, stirring well to ensure it’s well emulsified
Either freeze until solid in a vac pack bag and then churn in a pacojet, or chill overnight and churn in an ice cream maker
For the chocolate sponge, grease two gastropans and line them with baking paper. Preheat a steam oven to 100°C at 100% steam.
Make a sabayon with the egg yolks, trimoline and 285g caster sugar. Warm the ingredients over a double boiler, whisking constantly, until thick and increased in volume
Sieve together the cocoa powder and cornflour
Whisk together the remaining 190g caster sugar and egg whites until it forms a meringue
Mix the sabayon and meringue together, then fold in the dry ingredients and divide between the two prepared trays
Steam in the oven for 10 minutes
For the caramelised popcorn, first pop the popcorn kernels
Warm together the remaining ingredients in a pan and cook to 150°C
Mix the popcorn into the caramel, and stir to coat well
Very carefully out onto a marble bench or greased baking sheet and, once hardened, separate into small pieces
For the rapeseed oil ganache, bring the whipping cream and salt to a boil, then pour over the chocolates and trimoline
Whisk together until smooth, and then whisk in the rapeseed oil
Emulsify the ganache with a hand blender
For the malted milk chocolate Chantilly, place the whipping cream into a pan and bring to the boil
Pour over the chocolate and malt extract
Whisk until well emulsified and then set aside to cool
Once cool, whip to firm peaks
For the white chocolate crémeux, place the milk into a pan and cook to 82°C as for an anglaise with the egg yolk and caster sugar
Pour over the chocolate and miso paste and mix until well emulsified with a hand blender
Preheat the oven to 165°C to bake the chocolate crumble
Soften the butter and sugar together for the crumble
Mix in the dry ingredients to form a dough, then press through a grill to form large chunks
Bake in the oven for 12 – 15 minutes
Cut the steamed sponges into 12cm diameter circles
Roll out the sponges until slightly thinner between two pieces of baking parchment, then cut again with the 12 cm cutter
Place into a warmed waffle cone maker for 20 seconds, then allow to cool. If you don’t have a waffle cone maker, you can roll them out thinly between two pieces of baking paper. You won’t get the indentations, but they should be thin and pliable
Pipe a two cylinders of ganache onto the tacos, then insert them into taco holders
Pipe on the malted milk chocolate Chantilly and place on the chocolate crumble
Pipe on the caramelised white chocolate and sprinkle over the caramelised cacao nibs
Finally place a quenelle of sorbet onto the top of the taco, and serve topped with chocolate shavings, aerated chocolate, caramelised popcorn, edible flowers and micro mint
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