SUMMER FRUITS WITH TAHINI GANACHE

Steps:

• 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.