Strawberries + Balsamic = a match made in hell?
This pretty much says it all – I love my strawberries!
So when I found a most interesting recipe for roasted strawberries and balsamic vinegar (I’d heard of watermelon and feta before, but never this!), I thought I’d share it with you… but please do not hold me responsible if it tastes terrible as I have yet to try it!!!
I found the recipe in a Toronto- based blog called Closet Cooking. I really have no idea how I ended up on this blog, as I had originally googled London- based interior stylists, but that’s the web for you…!
Roasted Strawberry Balsamic Ice Cream
Ingredients:
2 cups strawberries (cleaned and hulled)
2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 cup sugar (I used vanilla sugar)
Directions:
1. Toss the strawberries in the balsamic vinegar and sugar and let sit for 20 minutes.
2. Pour mixture into a baking pan covered in foil folded up on the sides to capture the juices.
3. Roast the strawberries in a preheated oven until they start to caramelize, about 20 minutes.
4. Place the strawberries & juices into a container, chill in the fridge, then pour over ice-cream.
This is Kevin’s (the blog author) explanation of why he created the recipe…”Roasting the strawberries seems to concentrate and intensify their flavour and when they roast they release their juices which gets all nice and syrupy and good. While I was thinking about the concentrated strawberry flavour the strawberry and balsamic vinegar combo came to mind as a splash of balsamic vinegar also helps to bring out the natural strawberry flavour”.
As Joey (from Friends) once said for Rachel’s infamous trifle: “What’s not to like? Strawberries? Good. Ice-cream? Good. Vinegar? Good.” I’ll definitely be giving it a try and you never know, it might taste so good, it could be introduced in Wimbledon next year!
Or maybe you prefer a taste of these chocolate covered strawberries?
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it might be surprisingly nice! someone cooked me something that used a lot of vinegar in it, it smelled to high heaven all through the cooking process and I was really dreading having to eat it (you know, to be nice) and it turned out to be the awesomest tastiness evah. if I knew what a kitchen was, I’d try to make it myself!
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