Zesty Strawberries With Cointreau Recipes

Steps:

• Peel wide strips of zest without the pith from orange and cut into very thin strips. (Put aside rest of orange for another use.).
• In small saucepan, combine granulated sugar and water; bring to the boil over high heat.
• Add orange zest; reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes.
• Remove from heat and let syrup cool; stir in liqueur.
• Put berries in bowl.
• Add syrup and orange zest; set aside for 2 hours.
• Whip cream and sweeten to taste with powdered sugar.
• Serve strawberries topped with whipped cream and garnished each serving with a whole strawberry.

Steps:

• Hull and halve strawberries, leaving about 8 whole for pavlova decoration, and put into a medium bowl; scoop passionfuit into bowl; add Cointreau to taste & sugar and chill for an hour or two.
• Before topping pavlova with strawberries and passionfruit, drain juice from the fruit, being careful not to lose any of the passionfruit pulp; taste and add more Cointreau and sugar if necessary.
• Thicken the juice with arrowroot over a low heat to make a pouring sauce, not too thick as it will thicken as it chills - amount of arrowroot needed depends on how much juice you have from the strawberries.
• After adding cream to pavlova, top with the strawberries, both sliced and whole (leave leaves on whole strawberries) and pour over the sauce.

Steps:

• Place the strawberries and Cointreau in a medium bowl and stir until well combined. Cover and place in the fridge for 1-2 hours to macerate.
• Run a vegetable peeler to peel along the long edge of the block of chocolate to make chocolate curls. Set aside until serving.
• To serve, spoon the strawberry mixture into serving bowls. Top with cream and chocolate curls.

Steps:

• Wash and hull the strawberries. Pick out the over ripe or very ripe ones.
• Cut strawberries in half and sprinkle the Splenda.
• To make the sauce, roughly chop the remaining strawberries in a blender and blend for about 15 seconds, tossing in the Contreau and 1/2 tbpn of the Splenda. Chill and serve with the choice of light cream or ice cream.