Dessert Recipes - Ginger Souffle Recipe

Ingredients

• Butter, for greasing

• 75 g/3 oz/1/3 cup caster (superfine) sugar, plus extra for sprinkling

• 4 eggs, separated

• 25 g/1/4 cup plain (all-purpose) flour

• 2.5 ml/1/2 tsp ground ginger

• 250 ml/8 fl oz/1 cup milk

• 2 pieces of stem ginger in syrup, finely chopped

• 15 ml/1 tbsp ginger syrup

• Whipped cream, to serve

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Method:

1. Grease a 1 liter/4 1/4 cup souffle dish and sprinkle with caster sugar. Shake out any excess.

2. Put half the sugar in a bowl with the egg yolks, flour and ground ginger and whisk together well. Bring the milk just to the boil and pour into the egg mixture, whisking until smooth.

3. Return to the saucepan. Slowly bring to the boil and cook for 2 minutes. stirring all the time. until thick and smooth. Cool slightly, then stir in the chopped ginger and ginger syrup.

4. Whisk the egg whites until stiff. Whisk in half the remaining sugar and whisk again until stiff and glossy. Fold in the remaining sugar.

5. Beat 30 ml/2 tbsp of the egg mixture into the ginger mixture to slacken it slightly, then fold in the remainder with a metal spoon.

6. Turn into the prepared dish and bake in a preheated oven at 220°C/425°F/gas mark 7 for about 12 minutes until risen, golden and just set.

7. Sprinkle with a little caster sugar and serve straight away with whipped cream.