Summer Fruits With Tahini Ganache

A light dessert. recipe developed for rsc summer 2005.

Pour cream into medium saucepan , split vanilla bean and add to cream.

Slowly heat cream over low heat until just below the boiling point.

Remove vanilla bean and reserve.

Add chocolate , sugar and tahini to hot cream and stir until smooth , set aside.

Scrape seeds from both halves of the vanilla bean , stir the seeds into the chocolate mixture.

Clean and hull strawberries , halve them if large.

Pare and cube the melon.

Combine fruits and place in 6 serving dishes.

Drizzle warm ganache over fruit.

Sprinkle with a generous portion of chopped pistachios.

Garnish with a sprig of mint , if desired.

bittersweet chocolate, whipping cream, vanilla bean, sugar, tahini, strawberry, cantaloupe, pistachios