Strawberries in a thyme and lemon-flavoured red wine reduction

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 4 people, you will need:

• 1 750 ml red wine
• 2 150 g caster sugar
• 3 2 sprigs thyme
• 4 1 lemon
• 5 500 g strawberries
• 6 200 g Chantilly cream
• 7 4 fresh mint leaves (optional)
• Total weight: 1,730 grams

Times:

Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
25 min.	15 min.	45 min.	1 hour 25 min.

Step by step recipe

1	Pour 750 ml red wine into a saucepan on medium heat. bring to the boil, then leave to boil gently until reduced by half.
2	Add to the reduced red wine: 150 g caster sugar, 2 sprigs thyme and the zest of 1 lemon.
3	Put the pan back on the heat and reduce again by half.
4	Filter the contents of the pan through a fine strainer.
5	You will now have a red wine reduction flavoured with thyme and lemon. Leave to cool, then cover and refrigerate.
6	Prepare 500 g strawberries, remove the green tops and cut in 4 lengthways. Put into a bowl.
7	Pour the cold red wine reduction over, mix well and leave to steep for 15 minutes.
8	Divide out into small dishes and pour a generous slurp of the red wine reduction over.
9	Finish with a beautifully piped rosette of whipped cream (Chantilly) and garnish, if you like, with a mint leaf. Serve cool but, above all, not too cold.

Remarks

If possible, opt for a fairly light red wine with not too much tannin.
If you don't have time to whip cream, replace this with a generous spoonful of thick crème fraiche, sprinkled with a little caster sugar.

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