STRAWBERRY recipes
Maybe it’s the color, the heartlike shape...
BLOODY STRAWBERRY G&T Make a gin and tonic in the usual way, omitting the lime but squeezing half a blood orange into the glass. Slice a strawberry thinly and drop the slices into the glass before topping up with tonic. Garnish with a strawberry slice.
STRAWBERITA PIZZA Finely chop 1/2 a yellow onion and sautĂŠ it over medium-low heat in olive oil until soft, about 5 minutes. Add half of a 24-ounce can of crushed San Marzano tomatoes and 1 pint of strawberries, hulled and sliced (this makes enough for three pizzas). Simmer until the strawberries cook down and the sauce thickens slightly, about 15 minutes. Make a margherita pizza in the usual way, spreading the strawberry-tomato sauce on the dough instead of purĂŠed tomatoes. Sprinkle with crushed red chile before serving
STRAWBERRY CHEESECAKE ICE CREAM Spread cookie butter into a thin layer on a baking sheet and put it in the freezer to harden. Then make a sweet strawberry sauce. The ice cream base of cream cheese, milk, sugar, and lemon juice comes together quickly in a blender and is frozen in an ice cream maker. Finally, the hardened pieces of cookie spread and the strawberry sauce are swirled in and it’s all frozen together until ready to eat.
MERINGUES WITH STRAWBERRY–BLOOD ORANGE COMPOTE These individual crisp-chewy meringues are served with strawberry–blood orange compote. Begin by making a pavlova, but instead of spreading the meringue mixture into a single round, make 6 individual free-form rounds on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Bake and cool according to the recipe. For the compote, hull and slice 1 pint of strawberries and remove the peel and pith (make sure no white remains) from 2 blood oranges, then coarsely chop the oranges. In a sauté pan over medium heat, simmer the strawberries and blood oranges with 2 tablespoons sugar, 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar, and a pinch of kosher salt. Cook until jammy, about 10 minutes. Cool to room temperature and spoon over the meringues.