Simply ripe strawberries, aromatic freshly ground black pepper with a beautiful ‘bursting garnish’ of Balsamic Flavour Pearls. Delicious, fresh & quick to prepare.

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When you can get your hands on some great fresh local produce it’s wonderful to keep things simple and let the produce tell the story…

All you need to re-create this dish is…

Fresh strawberries (allow around 1 cup per person as a stand alone dessert)
Balsamic Flavour Pearls – 1 x 50g jar
Black pepper in a grinder
Extra virgin olive oil – a nice fruity one if you have it
Balsamic reduction – (instructions below)

We gave our strawberries a quick wash and took off the green bit before putting them in the fridge (room temp is great too)

Whilst the strawberries were chilling out we took 1 cup of balsamic vinegar and a generous tablespoon of sugar and brought it to the boil on the stove for our balsamic reduction. Keep a bit of an eye on it but you want it to reduce by around half – it will look glossy and a little syrupy once its ready to come off the stove.

Now to put it together….

In a bowl large enough to gently tumble your berries, add a small splash of olive oil and a generous grind of black pepper and tumble until all berries have a nice shine and sprinkling of pepper.

Spoon into individual glasses or on a large share plate, drizzle some of the warm balsamic glaze over the fruit and finish with some of our Balsamic Flavour Pearls.

(the warm glaze gives a wonderful contrast to the cool berries…by all means serve it all at room temperature if it makes life easier when you are entertaining)

Until next time

Rodney & Fiona

www.peninsulalarder.com.au