The Diamond of the Kitchen
Truffle is most expensive food. The Italian White Alba Truffle is the rarest of rare white truffle, but very tasty. Looking for truffles in open ground is almost always carried out with specially trained pigs (truffle hogs) or dogs. Truffle Hog have innate ability to sniff out truffles and tendency to eat truffles once found. Truffle Dog must be trained but easier to control. Here are our two recipes for truffles.
Truffle Buttered Crostini Recipe
Ingredients:
2 anchovy fillets (or 1 large fillet)
(you can purchase one fillet at most specialty shops, butchers, or delis),
125 grams of high quality, sweet butter,
50 grams of truffle (we purchased the cheaper sliced truffles in olive oil for roughly $10), 1 loaf of rustic bread,
2 tablespoons olive oil, salt and pepper.
Method:
1. Bake your bread: slice the loaf, drizzle the pieces with olive oil and salt and pepper, and bake until brown. Set aside and let cool.
2. Using a mortar and pestle, grind the anchovy and truffle. Add to the butter.
3. Spread on the cooled crostini and enjoy. The remaining butter can be refrigerated and will keep for at least a week; if kept truly airtight, it will keep for longer.
Black Truffle Ice Cream
Ingredients:
2 cups heavy cream, 1 cups whole milk, ½ cup sugar, 4 egg yolks, 1 tbsp. black truffle, minced, 1 tsp. black truffle oil, 1 tsp. vanilla, ¼ tsp. salt
Method:
Over medium-high heat, warm milk, salt, and sugar in a saucepan, stirring to combine. When the milk just begins to bubble around the edges, remove from heat. Stirring constantly with a whisk, pour some of the hot milk into beaten eggs to temper. Pour egg mixture back into the saucepan. Over low heat, stirring constantly, heat until a custard thickens (and will coat the back of a metal spoon with a thin film, approximately 7 to 10 minutes.
Add vanilla, truffles and oil. Stir to combine. Let rest for 30 minutes to 1 hour. Stir in the heavy cream, cover, and place mixture back in the refrigerator for at least an hour. Stir, then add to the ice cream maker, freeze the custard accordingly to the ice cream maker’s manufacturer’s instructions.
Enjoy your meal!
