Mushroom Flan

by Chef Loi Ming Ai


Mushroom Flan

Ingredients

Croissant Dough

800g t45

200g t65

50g Pumpkin Powder

100g Caster Sugar

15g Inverted Sugar

20g Salt

80g Debic Croissant Butter Sheet

410g Water

50g Whole Egg

16g Dry Yeast

Mushroom Flan

890g Dutch Lady Milk

110g Mushroom Paste

10g Salt

4g Black Pepper

1g Thyme

20g Inverted Sugar

70g Corn Starch

75g Caster Sugar

52g Debic Croissant Butter Sheet

Mushroom Paste

170g Shitake Mushroom

115g Brown Button Mushroom

105g Shimeji Mushroom

100g Onion

10g Garlic

30g Debic Croissant Butter Sheet

300g Debic Stand & Overrun

Preparation

Croissant Dough

Mix the flour, pumpkin powder, caster sugar, inverted sugar, salt, cocoa powder, butter, water, and whole egg together in a mixing bowl fitted with a hook attachment on low speed just until all ingredients are combined. Add the dry yeast. Continue to mix the dough on low speed for 12 minutes. 

Mushroom Flan

Whisk the cornflour and caster sugar together in a bowl. In a saucepan, combine the milk, mushroom paste, salt, black pepper, thyme, inverted sugar, and the cornflour mixture. Bring to a boil. Stir in the butter and emulsify thoroughly. 

Mushroom Paste

Cook all ingredients together and reduce the liquid completely. 

Assembly

Assembly

Ensure the dough temperature is at 0 °C. Roll out the butter sheet to 30 cm × 30 cm and the dough to 30 cm × 60 cm. Perform a traditional lock-in with 1 single fold (roll out to No. 8), followed by another 1 single fold (roll out to No. 5). Roll the width of the dough to 48 cm, then rest it in the freezer for 30 minutes. Roll the length to No. 10. Rest in the freezer for 30 minutes. 


Slice 1 cm off one side of the dough, place it on the surface, and roll the width to 28 cm. Rest in the freezer for another 30 minutes, then roll the length to 60 cm. Rest in the freezer for 30 minutes, then roll the dough down to 4 mm. Rest in the freezer for 30 minutes again, then roll down to 3.5 mm. Rest the dough in the freezer for 15 minutes before dividing.