Your Delicious Monthly Recipe - Mille Feuille

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From passionate foodies to professional chefs, Mediterranean Culinary Academy, gives students the technical abilities to excel in any culinary role. We offer a wide range of courses, workshops, private events and products. We are continuously looking into new ways to get people to learn more about the food they eat and how to cook dishes that use local and sustainably-sourced ingredients. To see available workshops, please visit www.mcamalta.com

 

 

Extract taken from February's 2023 Il-Bizzilla Magazine | Read more here

 

Why not learn to cook something special together using locally sourced ingredients? You will already see fresh frawli – strawberries, which are grown in the Mġarr region which also puts on a festival for these fine fruits later in the spring.

 

Shaped like a heart, strawberries have long been associated with love and romance, and here we share we share a simple, but decadent dessert with you for Galentines, Valentines or indeed any other night!

 

Mille-Feuille

 

Ingredients

1 puff pastry sheet

200g Crème diplomat

25g flaked almonds, toasted

icing sugar as needed

1 punnet of fresh strawberries, diced

 

Method

Roll out pastry as thinly as possible. Place flat on a tray and freeze (about 30 minutes). Using a knife cut out 6 rectangular sheets.

 

Dust heavily with icing sugar and bake between two baking trays (to keep them flat) for approximately 12 minutes. Allow to cool and dust with more icing sugar.

 

To assemble, place a layer of pastry, pipe Crème diplomat around edge working inwards. Place another sheet on top and repeat. Place diced strawberries in centre and layer another pastry sheet on top.

 

Dust with icing sugar and garnish with more strawberries.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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