Yummy Strawberries

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Strawberry thumbprint cookies

Make the most of strawberries being in season with something a
little different — thumbprint cookies topped with roasted berries.

By ALLISON PIRRIE-MAWER - Fairfax NZ News | 1:31PM - Tuesday, 20 November 2012


SWEET STRAWBERRIES: Thumbprint cookies with roasted strawberries.
— Photo: ALISON PIRRIE-MAWER.

ROASTING is the perfect way to cook fruit while ensuring it retains its colour, shape and flavour. It's especially good for strawberries, especially if they're lacking in flavour.

Roasted strawberries are great with scones, but here I've used them to top a crisp thumprint cookie.

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THUMBPRINT COOKIES

Ingredients:

• 60g sugar
• 120g butter
• 120g plain flour
• 60g ground almonds
• 1 egg
• ¼ tsp vanilla paste or seeds of ½ a bean

Method:

• Heat oven to 200°C. Line a baking tray with nonstick baking paper.

• Place sugar, flour, butter, ground almonds into a food processor and whiz them until they resemble breadcrumbs.

• Add the egg and pulse slowly until the mixture forms a dough. Be careful not to over mix at this stage.

• Remove biscuit dough from the food processor and divide into 12 equal portions.

• Roll each portion into a ball and place onto a nonstick baking tray and pres the centre down with your thumb, almost all the way through.

• At this stage you would add a blob of jam for thumbprint biscuits but I have baked mine naked so I can top them with strawberries.

• Bake for 20 minutes until golden brown, remove from the oven and allow to cool.

• Top each one with a roasted strawberry (recipe follows) and some of the strawberry syrup from roasting.

• Eat immediately otherwise the strawberries will make the biscuit soft. If you're not eating them immediately, store the biscuits in a separate airtight container.

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ROASTED STRAWBERRIES

Ingredients:

• 1 chip/punnet of small strawberries, washed and hulled
• 2 Tbsp vanilla syrup — or ½ a teaspoon of vanilla paste and 1 Tbsp sugar

Method:

• Heat oven to 180°C.

• Put the strawberries in a bowl with the vanilla syrup and stir gently. Take a large sheet of greaseproof paper and fip the strawberries onto it, then form the paper into a parcel around them. Fold the ends in to secure the parcel.

• Place the strawberry filled parcel onto a baking tray and roast for 12 minutes. Strawberries should just start to soften but hold their shape still. Don't over roast or you will end up with mush.

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For more recipes like this visit Pease Pudding.

www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/food-wine/recipes/7973992/Recipe-Strawberry-thumbprint-cookies

[caskur]

yuk... I haven't tasted a decent strawberry in years... they're always picked green and are shit.... plus they make me break out in a rash if I eat too many!

thumbs down to strawberries.... except home grown naturally!

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It sounds like you've been eating Aussie rubbish.

Obviously your strawberries are like your tomatos.....crap!

I get my strawberries from the WEE RED BARN five minutes' drive north of Masterton. They also grow raspberries, blackberries, gooseberries and boysenberries. Plus they make some bloody nice wines, including sparkling strawberry wine.

[caskur]

Nov 22, 2012 7:42:48 GMT 10 kiwithrottlejockey said:

It sounds like you've been eating Aussie rubbish.

Obviously your strawberries are like your tomatos.....crap!

I get my strawberries from the WEE RED BARN five minutes' drive north of Masterton. They also grow raspberries, blackberries, gooseberries and boysenberries. Plus they make some bloody nice wines, including sparkling strawberry wine.

I hate fruit these days because it is picked green.... even the bananas are sour...I'm a veggie girl.. I love veggies!

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Same here re the vegies!! I prefer them steamed - at least 8 varieties. I halve a tomato and put in the microwave for a minute and then mix it in with the vegies with lots of black pepper.

But I've been doing quite a few stir fries lately. I'm not all that impressed ... and you have to use oil to cook them, admittedly only a small amount however with steamed you don't use any. But you do make up for it with the butter in the mashed spuds!

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Nov 23, 2012 8:51:34 GMT 10 Stellar said:

Same here re the vegies!! I prefer them steamed - at least 8 varieties. I halve a tomato and put in the microwave for a minute and then mix it in with the vegies with lots of black pepper.

Errrrrrrrrrr......tomatos are botanically FRUIT.


However, I'm in agreement over steamed veges. I luuuuuurve steamed veges and that is how I cook them 95% of the time.

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Hey Kiwi, I never said that tomatoes were a vegie!! I did say that I steam the vegies and then halve a tomato for the microwave then mix it in with "the vegies."

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Anyone tried kumato? Woollies sell them and despite their odd colour, almost brown, they are full of flavour. I think a lot of people are put off, but that suits me, because they sell them for a song as the get riper!

[jody]

I saw these a few days back and yes the colour turned me right off.