- Preparation :
- 10 minutes
- Resting :
- 20 minutes
- Difficulty :
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Ingredients for 15 servings
- 1 sachet (2g) sodium alginate
- 100 ml soft water
- 100 ml green syrup (mint, melon, kiwi, green apple, cactus…)
- 1 drinking yoghurt (approximately 200 ml)
- 200 ml plain tap water
Recipe
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Mix alginate with the soft water (chose it with calcium less than 20mg/litre). Allow 20 minutes rest (reduces bubbles).
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Pour the yoghurt in a large glass and add as much plain water as yoghurt. Stir well.
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Pour the alginate solution into small glasses. Add to these glasses as much syrup (cordial) as you have solution and stir using a teaspoon or pipette.
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Green Caviar : Fill the pipette with green alginate solution and drip into the diluted yoghurt. Remove pearls (strain on tea strainer or with pierced spoon). Eat and enjoy !
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Alien eggs : fill the bottom of a large spoon with diluted yoghurt and pour the green alginate solution into the middle of the drop till you fill the spoon up. Delicately move the spoon’s surface below the yoghurt’s surface and tip the bubble (egg) into the yoghurt.
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Nothing simpler than making these green eggs. Just strain on a tea strainer while pouring into another glass and start all over again !
Once you’ve mastered this very difficult task, you’ll find it child’s play to make all sorts of bubbles and mock caviar at home. You won’t have to explain what the calcium salt is for either !
So why not go a step further and simply each make the pearls in the yoghurt and eat the lot ? Of course you might want to change the plastic pot for something more in tune with your guests expectations.
Prefer stirred yoghurts though you can always stir them with a added teaspoon of water or any other liquid (wink?). Beware addiction lies before you !
