Serves4
Preparation time |20 minutes
Cooking time |2 hrs plus marinating and freezing time
Ingredients
Sweet Eve soup
500g of Sweet Eve strawberries (hulled)
1 lemon
1 lime
1 vanilla pod
3 sprigs of mint
40g of sugar
75g of water
85g of champagne
White chocolate parfait
150g of white chocolate
1 egg
3 egg yolks
60g of sugar
1 vanilla pod, seeds scraped
300g of double cream
To serve
400g Sweet Eve strawberries
Fennel fonds
Conbnuts, halved
Lemon sorrel
Method
Sweet Eve soup
Mix the Sweet Eve strawberries with the zest and juice of the lime and lemon. Split the vanilla pod, add this to the Sweet Eve strawberries along with the mint, sugar, water and the champagne. Mix this well, massaging the Sweet Eve strawberries gently so that they break down slightly. Cover the bowl, leave to infuse for 24 hours at room temperature.
The next day, transfer the mixture into a muslin cloth, hang the muslin over a bowl and squeeze to release a clear strawberry juice. When all the juice has been released, put the clear juice in the fridge to chill, you can discard the contents of the muslin.
White chocolateparfait
Gently melt the white chocolate in a bain-marie. You can do this by placing a pan of water on a medium heat, put a heat proof bowl over the water, making sure the bottom does not touch the water. Add the chocolate to the bowl and stir gently until melted.
Add the whole egg, the yolks, the sugar and vanilla seeds into a mixer. Whisk until you’ve made a pale, thick sabayon. Whip the double cream until it starts to form medium peaks, gently fold in the sabayon followed by the melted chocolate. Mix it together very gently as you don’t want to remove any of the air.
Pour into a tray lined with silicon paper, place in the freezer to set. You can also put a chopping board in the freezer at this time; although this is optional, it will help keep your parfait cold when you cut it later.
Once the parfait has set, place on a cold chopping board and cut into small pieces.
To serve
Hull the remaining Sweet Eve strawberries and arrange them neatly in the bottom of 4 bowls. Pour some of the chilled strawberry soup over them, add the cobnuts, white chocolate parfait cubes and sprinkle the herbs over the top.
Recipe courtesy of Great British Chefs