Black sesame pie with coconut panacota and kiwi

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to cook Black Sesame Pie? The preparation will go in three stages: dough, cream and panakota. First of all, we will make a shortbread dough. Prepare the products for him.

2. Step 2:

   

   Take a bowl, pour flour, powdered sugar and cocoa into it. Stir until the products are evenly mixed.

3. Step 3:

   

   Put butter in flour. Using a knife, cut the piece into small cubes. And then rub the butter with the flour mixture with your hands to a fine crumb - it will look like kinetic sand - when compressed, it will mold, and then crumble.

4. Step 4:

   

   Break an egg into a crumb. And again, with your hands, mix it into the dough until it gathers into a ball.

5. Step 5:

   

   Put the resulting ball between two sheets of parchment and roll it out with a rolling pin into a circle with a diameter slightly larger than your shape.

6. Step 6:

   

   Put the rolled dough into the mold. I have it round, with a diameter of 28 cm. But the original recipe is designed for a diameter of 32 cm. Use your fingers to form the sides of the pie. Put the dough form in the refrigerator for half an hour.

7. Step 7:

   

   Then take out the form with the dough and put a sheet of parchment on it. Pour some legumes on top - dry peas or beans. This will prevent the dough from swelling during baking. I didn't have any peas, I poured pearl barley.

8. Step 8:

   

   Bake the cake in the oven preheated to 180 ° C, top-bottom mode. Bake with the load for the first 15 minutes, then remove it together with the paper and bake for another 10 minutes. Remove the finished cake and cool completely.

9. Step 9:

   

   Prepare the products for sesame cream. If you didn't find it on sale, then replace it with a poppy.

10. Step 10:

    

    First of all, whisk the cream until thick and put them in the refrigerator.

11. Step 11:

    

    Pour sesame seeds into a dry frying pan and fry it for a few minutes until crackling and characteristic aroma. Then grind the sesame seeds in any way - in a blender, in a mortar or in a coffee grinder. The smaller you grind it, the more homogeneous and tastier the cream will be. But do not overdo it - the seeds may begin to secrete oil and you will get tahini - sesame paste. We need dry sesame seeds, grind them quickly.

13. Step 12:

    

    Mix mascarpone, powdered sugar and ground sesame seeds.

14. Step 13:

    

    Take a saucepan, mix milk with agar-agar in it. Put it on the fire and bring the milk to a boil. Boil the milk with agar for two minutes. Agar, unlike gelatin, is not afraid of boiling, but needs it to completely dissolve.

15. Step 14:

    

    Remove the hot milk from the heat and add a couple of spoonfuls of mascarpone mixture to it. Stir. And pour the resulting mixture to the main cheese mass. Stir with a whisk. Cool it down a little. Remove the whipped cream from the refrigerator and add to the resulting mass. Mix it up. The cream is ready.

16. Step 15:

    

    Immediately pour it on the cooled cake - the agar begins to harden already at 40 degrees. Send the cake with cream to the refrigerator for 2 hours to stabilize.

17. Step 16:

    

    After two hours, start cooking coconut panacota. Prepare the products for her. Take yogurt without flavoring additives, natural.

18. Step 17:

    

    Take a saucepan and pour coconut milk and cream into it. Add sugar and agar-agar to them.

19. Step 18:

    

    Put the mass on the fire and boil it after boiling for a couple of minutes. Then remove from the heat and cool for 10 minutes. Add the yogurt, stir.

20. Step 19:

    

    Then I made a small mistake. It was necessary to wait until the panacota starts to harden and, already thickened, spread it on the cream. I poured out another liquid mass, and it spread not only over the cream, but also over the sides of the pie. Don't repeat my mistakes) Put the pie in the refrigerator for an hour. I left him overnight. The panacota froze perfectly, but the cream remained soft. But this did not prevent it from being cut in the future.

21. Step 20:

    

    You will need 6 kiwis for decoration. I had enough of them right next to me.

22. Step 21:

    

    Peel the kiwi and cut into thin slices. The thinner and neater you cut them, the more beautiful the pie will be.

23. Step 22:

    

    Take the pie out of the refrigerator. Place the kiwi circles on top, starting from the edges to the center. serve the pie chilled.