Strawberries with cobnuts and fennel
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This strawberry and cobnuts recipe from Adam Stokes includes a sweet and smooth white chocolate parfait. The sauce is made from infusing strawberries with mint, champagne and vanilla before hanging in muslin cloth to extract a crystal clear strawberry 'soup'.
Ingredients
Chilled strawberry soup
- 500g of strawberries
- 1 lemon
- 1 lime
- 1 vanilla pod
- 3 sprigs of mint
- 40g of sugar
- 75g of water
- 85g of Champagne
White chocolate parfait
- 150g of white chocolate
- 1 egg
- 3 egg yolks
- 60g of sugar
- 1 vanilla pod, seeds scraped
- 300g of double cream
To serve
- 400g of strawberries
- cobnuts , halved
- fennel fronds
- lemon sorrel
Equipment
- Food processor or blender
- Muslin cloth
Method
1
First, make the strawberry soup. Remove the green stalks from the strawberries and mix with the juice and zest of the lemon and lime
- 500g of strawberries
- 1 lemon
- 1 lime
2
Split the vanilla pod and add to the strawberries with the sprigs of mint, sugar, water and champagne. Mix well and massage the strawberries gently until they break down slightly. Cover and leave to infuse for 24 hours at room temperature
- 1 vanilla pod
- 3 sprigs of mint
- 40g of sugar
- 75g of water
- 85g of Champagne
3
Place the mixture into into a muslin cloth and hang the mix over a bowl to release a clear strawberry juice. When all of the liquid has drained, chill in the fridge
4
To make the parfait, gently melt the white chocolate in a pan
- 150g of white chocolate
6
Whip the cream until medium peaks form and gently fold into the sabayon, followed by the melted white chocolate. Mix very gently so you don't remove any air. Pour into a tray lined with silicon paper, then place in the freezer to set. At the same time, place a chopping board in the freezer (optional)
- 300g of double cream
7
Once the parfait has set, place on the cold chopping board and cut into small pieces
8
Hull the remaining strawberries and arrange them neatly in the bottom of some bowls. Pour over some of the chilled strawberry soup then arrange the cobnuts, white chocolate parfait cubes and herbs over the top
- 400g of strawberries
- fennel fronds
- lemon sorrel
- cobnuts , halved
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