The pleasure of cooking a la plancha is not reserved only for grilling meat, fish, shellfish or vegetables. It is just as easy and quick to prepare delicious desserts there.
Cooking a la plancha is always the occasion for a convivial meal. Fast and healthy, this cooking keeps all the flavors and qualities of the food. In all simplicity, prepare meats, fish, shellfish, vegetables and for the final sweet note a gourmet caramelized fruit. A pineapple for example? Sliced, then marinated in brown sugar with a lemon juice just cooked the time of its caramelization on the hot plate. 5 minutes on each side, all that remains is to place the slices on a plate sprinkled with the cooking juices and here is a delicious dessert. A few raspberries to complete the whole ...
In this summer period, cooking a la plancha is always an opportunity to share a convivial meal. It allows you to cook a multitude of foods, even fragile ones, to create varied and healthy menus, both savory and sweet preparations, often based on fresh fruit.
The plancha is becoming more and more popular and is starting to overshadow the traditional barbecue.
The advantages of the plancha
It appeals by:
- its ease of installation and use,
- its easy start-up, without ignition problem, especially if it is equipped with a piezo ignition,
- its rapid rise in temperature,
- its uniform heat over the entire cooking surface,
- its constant and controllable temperature,
- its healthy cooking:
¤ without adding fat or very little
¤ the food cooks in its own juice,
¤ they are not in contact with the flames unlike the barbecue,
¤ the fats are evacuated without burning in a recuperator.
- its ease of maintenance
Cooking a la plancha has a lot of flavor advantages. Done at high temperatures, it is often referred to as "sear" cooking. On the hot plate, the food is instantly seared, caramelized without being denatured. Meat, fish, shellfish, vegetables ... thus retain all their juices and flavors.
To finish a 100% plancha meal, convivial, a small simple and quick dessert ... roasted fruit skewers, seasonal fruits cooked in foil or even caramelized, fruit pancakes
Recipe for caramelized pineapple slices with a melting heart
A little sweet note that you can eat without hunger!
Peel 1 very ripe pineapple, remove the "eyes" and cut it into slices about 2 cm thick and hollow out the core.
In a dish, mix 5 tablespoons of brown sugar with the juice of 1 lemon. Coat each slice with this preparation and let marinate in the refrigerator.
Place them on the plate of your hot plancha (around 150 ° C). Turn the slices over when they start to have a nice golden color, and a caramelized crust forms.
About 5 minutes on each side. Collect the cooking juices to coat the pineapple slices on a plate.
For the finishing touch:
drop a few raspberries ...
sprinkle a few mint leaves ...
Serve the pineapple slices with a scoop of ice cream ...
Treat yourself !
