Very Blueberry Clafouti Food

BLUEBERRY CLAFOUTI

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Place blueberries in the bottom of a small rectangular glass pan (about 8 by 10 inches).
• In a medium bowl, crack eggs and whisk lightly. Add sugar and continue whisking until mixture thickens and is pale yellow. Add milk and vanilla; whisk to combine. Add flour and whisk to combine. Add a pinch of fine salt and whisk to incorporate. Pour mixture over berries.
• Bake on the center rack of the oven until the clafouti has puffed and the center bounces back when lightly pressed, about 45 minutes, rotating once.
• Remove from oven and let cool slightly before cutting. Slice into 8 equal pieces and gently remove from pan with a spatula or cake server. Dust with powdered sugar and serve immediately.

BLUEBERRY CLAFOUTIS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and butter a 9-inch oven-safe skillet or baking dish. Puree all ingredients except blueberries and powdered sugar in a blender until smooth.
• Pour into skillet and top with blueberries. Bake for 40 minutes or until center is set and top is lightly browned.
• Serve warm, dusted with powdered sugar.

VERY BLUEBERRY CLAFOUTI

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°. Place butter in a 12-in. cast-iron or other ovenproof skillet. Place skillet in oven until butter is melted, 1-2 minutes. Carefully tilt pan to coat bottom and sides with butter. Spread blueberries in bottom of pan. In a large bowl, whisk eggs, flour, milk, sugar, vanilla and cinnamon. Pour egg mixture over blueberries., Bake until center is puffed and edges are browned, 30-35 minutes. Sprinkle with additional cinnamon if desired. Let stand 15 minutes before cutting.

BLUEBERRY CLAFOUTIS

Steps:

• Grind the almonds to a very fine powder in a small food processor then blend in the flour and salt. Add the sugar, whole eggs, yolks and cream. Whizz until creamy smooth. (If you're making ahead, tip the batter into a jug at this point and store in the fridge for up to 24 hours.)
• When ready to cook, preheat the oven to 200C/gas 6/fan 180C. Butter eight 10cm gratin dishes. Scatter the blueberries in the bottom.
• Give the batter a good stir, pour into the dishes and bake for about 18-20 minutes, or until risen and lightly firm. Dust with icing sugar and serve warm.

BERRY CLAFOUTIS

Steps:

• Toss berries in a medium bowl with the kirsch, eau de vie or crème de cassis and 2 tablespoons of the sugar, and let sit for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, sift together all-purpose flour and almond flour.
• Heat oven to 375 degrees. Butter a 9- or 10-inch ceramic tart pan or clafoutis dish.
• In a medium bowl, beat eggs with remaining sugar, seeds from the vanilla bean or vanilla, and salt. Place a strainer over the bowl and drain berries, allowing all of the liquid from the berries to run into the egg and sugar mixture. Whisk to combine. Arrange drained berries in the buttered baking dish.
• Beat the sifted flours into the egg mixture and whisk until smooth. Add yogurt or kefir and combine well. Pour over fruit, scraping out all of the batter with a rubber spatula.
• Bake for 35 minutes, or until the top is browned and the clafoutis is firm and puffed. Press gently on the top in the middle to see if it's firm. If it isn't, return to the oven for 5 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool on a rack. Serve warm or at room temperature.

CHEF JOHN'S BLUEBERRY CLAFOUTIS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). Generously butter a 2 1/2-quart baking dish.
• Pour blueberries into prepared baking dish.
• Blend milk, sugar, flour, eggs, vanilla extract, and salt in a blender until batter is smooth. Pour batter over blueberries and gently shake to remove any air bubbles.
• Bake in the preheated oven until puffed and center is set, 25 to 30 minutes. Cool until clafoutis deflates and is just warm.

BLUEBERRY CLAFOUTI

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
• Place the milk, eggs, flour, half a cup of the sugar and the cinnamon in a blender or a food processor. Process until well mixed.
• Place the butter in a heavy nine-inch ovenproof skillet or a heatproof baking dish. Place it on the stove over low heat to melt the butter and warm the pan. Remove it from the heat.
• Spoon a little of the batter into the pan, swirling it to coat the bottom. Scatter one-and-a-third cups of the blueberries over the bottom of the pan and dust them with a tablespoon of the remaining sugar. Pour the remaining batter over them; place the pan in the oven and bake for about 30 minutes, until puffed and browned.
• While the clafouti is baking, stir the yogurt and mix in the remaining blueberries. Dust the finished clafouti with the remaining sugar and serve with the yogurt on the side.

BLUEBERRY CLAFOUTI

Steps:

• Preheat6 the oven to 375°. In a medium size bowl, combine the blueberries with 2 tbsp of the granulated sugar and let stand while preparing the batter.
• In a food processor or blender, whirl the remaining granulated sugar, milk, flour, eggs, orange rind, vanilla and cinnamon for 30 seconds or until smooth. Or put all the ingredients in a medium-size bowl and stir until just blended.
• Lightly grease a 9-in pie plate and arrange the blueberries on the bottom. Spread the batter evenly over the blueberries and bake for 35-40 or until puffed and lightly golden. Sprinkle with confectioners sugar.
• Serves 4-6.

BLUEBERRY CLAFOUTI

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F.
• Melt butter in 10-inch tart pan or 9-inch pie plate and coat sides (the extra butter will get used momentarily).
• In medium bowl, stir together 3 tablespoons bake mix, sugar substitute and salt.
• In small bowl whisk cream, water, eggs and almond extract. Pour in excess melted butter from pan.
• Add liquid ingredients to dry ingredients and mix until smooth.
• Toss blueberries with remaining 1 tablespoon bake mix; gently fold into batter.
• Pour into prepared pan.
• Bake 45 minutes or until golden and puffy.
• Serve immediately.

NECTARINE AND BLUEBERRY CLAFOUTI

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F. and butter a 2-quart shallow baking dish.
• Cut nectarines into 1/4-inch-thick wedges and in a bowl macerate with blueberries in wine 15 minutes.
• Melt butter and cool slightly. In a large bowl whisk together eggs, granulated sugar, and salt. Whisk in flour until combined well and whisk in milk, butter, vanilla, and 1/4 cup wine from fruit mixture until smooth. With a slotted spoon transfer fruit to baking dish, reserving wine for another use (such as sangría), and arrange in bottom. Carefully pour batter over fruit (the fruit will rise to the top) and bake in upper third of oven until puffed and set in center, 55 to 60 minutes. Transfer clafouti to a rack to cool.
• Just before serving, dust clafouti with confectioners'sugar. Serve clafouti warm or at room temperature.