Orange cheesecake recipe
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Total: 1 h 10 min Diners: 6
In Spain the cheesecake is one of the sweets that we like the most, and here we are going to reinvent it. We have already shown you the easiest cheesecake that exists and the simplest version of the baked cheesecake. We even took the plunge with this Japanese cheesecake. But what awaits you in this recipe is very different.
Remember when the Internet almost killed Jamie Oliver for putting chorizo in a paella? Does it really deserve so much public scorn to go outside the traditional ingredients of a recipe? Well, you’ll see when today’s recipe is discovered.
I have always been of the philosophy that there are no dogmatic recipes. The recipes and traditional dishes have no more owner than the people themselves; that all those mothers and grandmothers who have done so much for the good cooking of stew and slow fire for which we strive when the cold comes.
At my grandmother’s house has always made a kind of croquette dough with ham and egg that we ate with croutons (coming soon delicacies like this); is it so rare? The dishes and elaborations are of the houses and stoves. This is one thing, but making a pie with an empanada dough, how about that? I think that neither in Spain, nor in the rest of the world, has been done something like this: cheese and orange tart, a very unique dessert basically because the dough is the remains of the one I made for the octopus empanada.
Yes, that dough made with the oil from frying garlic, onion, red bell pepper, green bell pepper and paprika. The world is made for the brave and I assure you that the result will leave absolutely no one indifferent. A recipe of use of those leftovers of dough but that you could also make with a canonical shortcrust pastry. Spherifications to me…
Along with this delicious empanada dough, come two more recipes: a quick homemade orange marmalade and a creamy filling of cream and mascarpone cheese that serves for any other pastry preparation that you want to do. It costs horrors and gives an incredible rage and impotence to write these lines and not be able to convey what I felt when I tried it. You can not fail to make either the octopus empanada, of course, or, with the leftover dough, this delicious cake with homemade orange marmalade and a finger-licking cream cheese. A treat for the taste and the soul.
How to make orange cheesecake
. Cheese and orange treat with octopus empanada dough (you read that right)
Ingredients
Ingredients
. Empanada dough, 350 g Cream 35% fat (for whipping), 300 ml Mascarpone cheese, 300 g Icing sugar, 100 g Orange, 1 pc
For the candied orange
. Orange juice, 1 pc Sugar, 150 g Water, 100 ml
Step 1
The first thing to do is to prepare the orange marmalade. You can make extra because it keeps very well. Cut the orange into 5 mm slices and put it in a saucepan with the water and sugar. Let it cook for 40 minutes over low heat or until the water has turned into a fantastic syrup. When it is ready, let it cool completely.
Step 2
While the orange is cooling, prepare the base. To do this you have to stretch the dough well with the help of a rolling pin and on a baking paper. As it is the dough of the octopus empanada, it has enough oil and it is not necessary to add flour to work. It is not necessary to leave it too thin, just a little. Just enough and a little more to cover a 24 cm mold
Step 3
When the dough is stretched, place it on the mold. It is to raise the dough up the walls 3 cm to form a kind of tartlet. The whole surface must be smooth and of the same size. It is best to use a knife to measure and cut the excess dough little by little. Once ready and placed, prick the base with a knife to breathe.
Step 4
Bake 25 minutes at 200º. Ovens are great liars, so it’s best to keep an eye on the times.
Step 5
While the base is in the oven, we make the cream cheese. We prepare two equal bowls and in one we add the cream cheese and in the other the cream (it has to be very cold to mount without problems. In fact, it can even be put in the freezer a little before and the bowl in the refrigerator). With a whisk, beat the cream cheese until it is no longer compact and creamy. Then do the same with the cream until it whips, adding the powdered sugar at first.
Step 6
Once the cheese is creamy, add the orange zest and incorporate the cream with wrapping movements so that it does not disassemble.
Step 7
To assemble the cake: place a good amount of cheese on the dough. To cover all the edges that we had made. Then, place the orange on top and also enough syrup from the jam itself.
