RECIPE
LACTO FERMENTED STRAWBERRY COCKTAIL By Anthony Raffo
This time of year isn’t the season for British strawberries although I’m sure there is a spike in sales around 14th February. Valentine’s Day conjures up all sorts of images such as chocolate, roses, jewellery and of course the humble strawberry. Why not do something a little different with them this year to impress someone special? When I say do something special with them anyone that knows me knows it’s a safe bet that the next word out of my mouth is fermentation. And that’s exactly it: lacto-fermented strawberries taste incredible, just as if a strawberry was injected with pure umami. My favourite use has to be this cocktail, which is very unusual and sure to impress the one you love. 20
Ingredients
Lacto-fermented strawberry juice: Punnets of strawberries x2 Table salt x 2% of the weight of the strawberries
Method
Weigh your strawberries and then weigh 2% of that number of table salt. For example, if you have 100g of strawberries you would need 2g of table salt. In a large bowl toss the salt and strawberries and leave until you start to see strawberry juice forming at the bottom of the bowl. Place everything into an air tight Mason Cibare Magazine
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