2011 Cooking Club Week 24 - Balsamic & Black Pepper Strawberries with Greek Yoghurt

Not much in the preparation of this week's dish, but I hope it's something that people will try, even if at fist glance it seems a bit weird.

Strawberries are right in season, and so should be readily available anywhere.

Both Balsamic Vinegar and Black Pepper really work with the Strawberry flavour, and bring it out brilliantly. Other versions I've seen use Cider Vinegar.

So, gather all your ingredients together.



Chop the Strawberries, halve the smaller ones, cut the larger ones to match the size.



Sprinkle with a couple of tablespoons of Caster Sugar (normal sugar will do), this will draw out the juices.



Put in one and a half tablespoons of Balsamic Vinegar



A good twist or two of Black Pepper



And stir them all together

Stick into the fridge for an hour, or more if you have the time, stir it a few times while it's resting in the fridge.



Take it out of the fridge, and you can see that the sugar, juice and balsamic have combined to form a kind of syrup. Noy really thick like honey, but kind of syrupy



Now, you can serve this with Cream, Ice Cream or Natural Yoghurt.



Enjoy!