Sabayon the classic dessert with a taste of home. Maybe it was a snack when you were a child, or maybe you are the one who loves to delight your children with this delicious egg custard. Be that as it may, there is nothing to stop you from enjoying it in adulthood too, perhaps with the addition of your favourite beverage.
Coffee sabayon is in fact one of the many variations of this timeless dessert. Quick and easy, it is a recipe within anyone’s reach, allowing you to enjoy this exquisite dessert at any time of day.
Its beauty, after all, is precisely the fact that it works as an energy snack, as an end-of-meal dessert, and even as a particularly mouth-watering breakfast. If your mouth is already watering, therefore, all you have to do is read on and discover with us how to make your own fantastic coffee sabayon!
How to prepare coffee sabayon
The recipe we are about to reveal is designed for a maximum of 4 people. It will then be up to you to increase or decrease the quantities of ingredients depending on the number of diners for whom you want to prepare the coffee sabayon. Having clarified this, therefore, let’s go and see what ingredients you will need:
- 2 or 3 egg yolks, depending on how large you want it;
- 100 g sugar;
- 2 cups of espresso coffee.
Apparently, these ingredients are easy to find, but we would like to make a small note about the two cups of espresso. We, who know a thing or two about coffee, advise you to be very careful when preparing it, making sure you do it with the right tools.
After all, it is no secret that if you want to drink good coffee, you should do it with the right machine. This advice is even more valid if the espresso in question will be used as the basic ingredient in a recipe.
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Once you have prepared the two cups of espresso, you will have to let them cool down. In the meantime, get a bowl in which to beat the egg yolks and sugar with a whisk until the mixture is pleasantly frothy.
Once this is done, add the coffee and transfer the obtained cream over a saucepan filled with water, cooking it in a bain-marie and continuing to stir it. Make sure it looks puffy and dense and, when you are satisfied, transfer the coffee sabayon into small glasses and distribute them to your guests.
It goes without saying, of course, that this is the basic recipe: the easiest one to prepare. Any variations depend on the potential additions you can use to enrich it, thus making it even tastier. So let’s discover together all the ways you can improve your coffee sabayon!
Additions to the coffee sabayon
One of the main advantages of coffee sabayon is that it is an incredibly creative recipe, allowing you to show off your personal touch by enriching it with one or more additional ingredients.
Hazelnuts, for example, are already a first additional ingredient. If the idea of using them appeals to you, the advice is to grind them into grains, which you can then sprinkle directly onto your coffee sabayon. A discourse that you can of course also apply to other types of grains, such as cocoa or cinnamon.
Alternatively, for a really tasty snack, you can serve the coffee sabayon together with some biscuits. The choice of biscuits to go with it is entirely up to you: what counts is that they can be ‘dipped’ in the cream, for a dessert that will fill you up with energy!
Finally, should you prepare coffee sabayon during the hot summer season, there is nothing to stop you from turning it into a delicious cold dessert. To do so, simply enrich it with ice, and you have the perfect summer dessert.
Conclusion
Tell me how you prefer sabayon to coffee and I will tell you who you are! It sounds like the title of one of the many tests you can find online, when in fact it is the simple truth. In fact, as we have amply demonstrated, the beauty of this dessert is that you can enrich it with a range of different ingredients, chosen according to your taste and preference.
But the most important thing, the ingredient that unites all the variants, and the one mainly responsible for the final flavour of sabayon is obviously coffee. Hence the need to prepare it really well, perhaps with the help of one of our coffee machines: the only ones able to ensure a perfect coffee, perfect to use as the basic ingredient of your sabayon!