The good days are back and so are strawberries! To enhance its taste, there is nothing like combining it with matcha. Freshness guaranteed!
Ingredients
Matcha cream
- 250 g full cream
- 120 g mascarpone
- 1 vanilla bean
- 50 g icing sugar
- 4 tbsp matcha powder
Strawberry compote
- 500 g fresh strawberries (keep a few for decoration)
- 2 tbsp white or brown sugar
Servings: eclairs
Units:
Instructions
Choux pastry
- Heat the water, butter, sugar and salt.
- Bring the mixture to a boil, remove from the heat and add the flour while stirring (always off the heat).
- Allow the dough to dry out for a few minutes over medium heat, stirring constantly.
- Remove the dough from the pan, place it in a bowl and let it cool for at least 20 minutes.
- Once at room temperature, place the dough ball into a mixing bowl. Add the eggs one by one on medium speed.
- Remove the dough when it is uniform and sticky. Place it in a piping bag and pipe the éclairs on a baking sheet.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes at 180°C, fan oven.
Matcha cream
- Take 30 cl of whole cream and dilute the matcha in it. Beware, there should be no lumps!
- Place all the ingredients in a mixing bowl, including 30 cl of diluted matcha, then whip until the cream is well set.
- Place into a piping bag and set aside in a cool place.
Strawberry compote
- Wash then cut the strawberries into pieces.
- Place the strawberries in a bowl, add the sugar.
- Cover and chill for 30 minutes in the fridge.
Assembling the eclairs
- Once cold, cut the eclairs in half.
- Place a thin layer of cream on the bottom of the eclairs.
- Place the strawberry pieces onto the cream.
- Add the cream as desired.
- Cut a few strawberries for decoration and cover the top of the eclairs.
- Sprinkle with icing sugar.
Recipe Notes
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Opal
30.07.2023Strawberry-matcha eclairs – for the choux pastry, how many eggs are needed? It’s not listed. Thanks for the correction and may delete this post thereafter.
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Pearl Nebah
13.10.2023Thank you for pointing this out! (And sorry for the late reply 🙈)
We’ve just added the eggs in the ingredient list. It’s 2-3, depending on the consistency.