Lemon sabayonette with fresh berries

Name: Lemon sabayonette with fresh berries
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 2 h 10 min
Yield: Serves 4–6
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 120 g (4 oz) caster sugar; 100 ml (3¼ fl oz) lemon juice; 100 g (3¼ oz) unsalted butter, softened; 200 g (6½ oz) raspberries; 100 g (3¼ oz) blueberries; 100 g (3¼ oz) blackberries; 40 g (1¼ oz) icing sugar; 4 sprigs of fresh mint, to decorate; 3 eggs

Preparation info

Serves
4–6

Difficulty
Complex
Ready in
2 hr 30

Appears in

Summer

By Le Cordon Bleu

Published 1998

About

The name of this superb dessert is derived from the Trench word for ‘zabaglione’. Like a true zabaglione, a sabayonette is best served on the day it is made.

Ingredients

Sabayonette

3 eggs
120 g (4 oz) caster sugar

Method

To make the sabayonette, half fill a large pan with water and heat until simmering. Have ready a heatproof bowl that will fit over the pan without touching the water. Place the eggs, sugar and lemon juice in the bowl and set it over the simmering water. Whisk until foamy, then constantly whisk for 20–25 minutes, or until the mixture is thick and light yellow and leaves a tr