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Strawberry & gin Eton mess
Make summer entertaining easy with this grown-up take on the classic British pud. Strawberries look and taste great here, but you can use any seasonal berries.
Serves 4
Course Dessert
Prepare 20 mins
Cook - mins
Total time 20 mins
Plus Macerating
Ingredients:
- 3 tbsp Chase Pink Grapefruit & Pomelo Gin (or any other citrus-flavoured gin)
- 3 tbsp icing sugar
- 230g strawberries, hulled and roughly chopped
- 300ml Essential Double Cream
- 250g Essential Low Fat Greek Style Yogurt
- 1 tsp vanilla bean paste
- 4 Cooks' Ingredients Meringue Nest
- A few small mint leaves, to serve
Method:
- Mix 2 tbsp gin and 1 tbsp icing sugar in a non-metallic mixing bowl. Add the strawberries and leave to macerate for 30 minutes.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the cream, yogurt, vanilla and remaining 2 tbsp icing sugar. Whisk until thickened. Just before the cream mixture reaches soft peaks, stir through the remaining 1 tbsp gin. Crumble in the meringue nests and stir together.
- Spoon equal amounts of the meringue-cream into 4 glasses or bowls and top with a layer of the strawberries. Layer up more meringue-cream and fruit, and scatter with mint leaves to serve.
Cook’s tip
LEFTOVERS
Pink Grapefruit & Pomelo Gin: Pomelo is a fruit similar to grapefruit but larger and slightly sweeter. It helps to give this gin a lovely citrussy flavour – ideal for summer cocktails and martinis.
Nutrition
Typical values per serving when made using specific products in recipe
Energy | 2,118kJ/ 510kcals |
Fat | 40g |
Saturated Fat | 32g |
Carbohydrates | 32g |
Sugars | 1.2g |
Fibre | 1.2g |
Protein | 5.3g |
Salt | 0.2g |
Source: https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/recipe/strawberry-gin-eton-mess