Recipe: Maltese style Strawberries

Name: Fraises à la maltaise
Prep time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Ingredients: 500 g de fraises bien mures3 belles oranges non traitées2 cl de Grand Marnier ou Curaçao100 g de sucre SEMOULE5 gr de poivre en mignonnette (écrasé avec le cul d'une casserole) ou de baies de poivre de Timut.quelques feuilles de menthe.

By chef patrick ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2/5 (13 reviews) Desserts

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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