Recipe: Maltese style Strawberries

Name: Maltese style Strawberries
Prep time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Ingredients: For 6 timbales/small bowls :1/2 kilogram (1.1 lb) well ripe strawberries; 3 nice oranges; 2 centiliters (0.7 fl oz) orange brandy (Grand Marnier or Curaçao); 100 grams (3.3 oz) caster sugar; 5 grams (1 coffeaspoonful) coarlsy crushed - with the bottom of an heavy saucepan - black pepper; a few fresh mint leaves

By chef patrick Asfaux 4.2/5 (13 reviews) · 🍳 25 made it

Prep 20 min

Total 20 min

pour 6 timbales de fraises à la Maltaise

Recette Maltese style Strawberries - Chef Patrick Asfaux

Ingredients

For 6 timbales/small bowls :

1/2 kilogram (1.1 lb) well ripe strawberries
3 nice oranges
2 centiliters (0.7 fl oz) orange brandy (Grand Marnier or Curaçao)
100 grams (3.3 oz) caster sugar
5 grams (1 coffeaspoonful) coarlsy crushed - with the bottom of an heavy saucepan - black pepper

a few fresh mint leaves

Step-by-step directions

1 Cut a thin slice from top and bottom of each orange so that that can stay vertical on a plate.

2 Cut them in 2 horizontally then take the pulp off with a large spoon and keep the pulp in a salad bowl (take your time but do it well).

3 Press the pulp to get the juice

4 Wash the strawberries, take away their stalks and cut each strawberry in 2 halfes vertically in a salad bowl.

5 Add, in the bowl of strawberries, the sugar, the brandy (not for children) and the orange juice. Cover with cling film and keep into the fridge for a couple of hours.

5 Presentation : put a half orange shell onto the middle of each bowl filled (the bowl) with crushed ice, fill each orange shell with the marinated strawberries, sprinkle with a little pepper (not for young children) and decorate with a few mint leaves. If you can afford it, offer a cup of well cooled Champagne with each bowl (not for children of course).

You will then, maybe, taste a little bit of paradise

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