Recipes
Tangelo Basque cheesecake
Ingredients
Tangelo Basque cheesecake
1 kg (5 cups) cream cheese, at room temperature
270 g (2 ¼ cups) caster sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
6 eggs, at room temperature
500 ml (2 cups) cream
40 g (¹/3 cup) cornflour
4 g (1 tsp) salt
2 tangelos, zested
Sous-vide tangelos
2 tangelos, peeled and cut into segments
1 vanilla bean, split and scraped
2 tbsp caster sugar
2 cardamom pods
1 cinnamon stick
Method
Tangelo Basque cheesecake
- Crumple a large sheet of baking paper. Unfold and use it to line a 23 cm springform cake tin, ensuring excess baking paper comes up over the sides of the tin to allow for the cake to rise.
- Place the cream cheese, sugar and vanilla into the bowl of a freestanding mixer with a paddle attachment and mix on medium speed until smooth and free of lumps.
- On low speed, slowly add one egg at a time, beating for 30 seconds between each addition.
- Slowly pour in the cream and continue to mix for 20 seconds. Add the cornflour, salt and zest and mix until fully incorporated.
- Pour the mixture into the lined cake tin. Place the tin on the rack on shelf level 2 in the combi steam Pro oven and select Combi mode: Conventional at 190°C + 30% moisture + 60 minutes, preheat off.
- Check the cake; it should wobble slightly when done. Remove the cake from the oven and cool on the bench before chilling in the fridge overnight.
Sous-vide tangelos
- While the cake is chilling, add the segments of tangelo, vanilla, sugar and spices into a vacuum sealing bag.
- Place into the vacuum sealing drawer and Vacuum on level 2 and Seal on level 2. Place the bag onto a rack in the combi steam Pro oven and Sous-vide at 70°C for 30 minutes.
- Transfer the fruit and syrup into a bowl, discard the cinnamon stick and cardamom pods.
To serve
- Remove the cake from the fridge and bring to room temperature before slicing and serving with the warm tangelo and syrup.
Hints and tips
- Cooking on combi mode gives the cheesecake a very creamy inside and reduces the cooking time compared to baking with conventional heat.
- If you don’t have a combi steam oven, this recipe can be cooked in a traditional oven on Conventional at 190°C for 1 hour 20 minutes, without preheating the oven.
- Tangelos have a short season and can be substituted with oranges when out of season.
- If you don’t have a vacuum sealing drawer, you can steam the tangelo ingredients in an unperforated steam container, covered. Set aside to cool in the container to allow the flavours to develop.
Applicance Functions
Miele
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