Greenpoint’s Fulgurances Laundromat (132 Franklin St.) is a distinguished dining destination known for decadent tasting menus and a rotating repertoire of resident chefs from all over the world.
Last month, Fulgurances Laundromat welcomed a new resident chef, Émile Desmet, who was the former Executive Chef at Paris’ Le Chateaubriand.
For this week’s addition to the Community Cookbook, Chef Desmet has shared his recipe for pear doughnuts, perhaps the perfect dessert to serve for the upcoming holidays.
See how to make Fulgurances’ pear doughnut dessert below and find last week’s Community Cookbook recipe here.
Fulgurances’ Pear Doughnut
Ingredients
1 average size pear
2 whole eggs
2 1/2 tablespoons of sugar (30 grams)
3 1/2 teaspoons of vanilla extract (15 grams)
2 cups of flour (250 grams)
1 3/4 teaspoons of baking soda (8 grams)
1 cup of milk (225 milliliters)
Zest of 1 lemon
Directions
- Peel pear completely.
- Cut the peeled pear into rings (5 to 7 per pear).
- Take out the center with a ring mold or apple skewer to make a hole in the middle like a doughnut.
(You can keep the pear rings in lemon juice to avoid oxidation while making the batter.)
- To make the batter, first, heat up 2 teaspoons (or 10 milliliters) of milk and combine with the baking soda.
- Then, mix in the rest of the milk and all of the other ingredients, creating the batter.
- Put oil in a pan and bring it to 350 degrees F (175 C).
- Dip the pear rings into the batter until they are completely covered. (Make sure there is batter all over the ring, even in the middle, to create the doughnut shape.)
- Fry both sides of the ring until golden brown.
- Remove doughnut from pan and dust with sugar. (You can add a powdered flavor to the sugar if you have it. Chef suggests lemon verbena or rose.)