Berries With Cointreau Food

COINTREAU CRANBERRY RELISH

Steps:

• Combine one 12-ounce bag cranberries, 1 diced peeled Granny Smith apple, 1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup Cointreau or Grand Marnier, 1/2 cup water and 1/4 teaspoon each ground cinnamon and cloves in a saucepan over medium heat. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat and simmer until the berries start to pop, about 10 minutes. Off the heat, stir in the grated zest of 1 each lemon and orange; chill.

STRAWBERRIES IN COINTREAU

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.

STRAWBERRIES IN COINTREAU

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.

STRAWBERRIES WITH COINTREAU

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.

BLUEBERRIES AND COINTREAU

Steps:

• Place 1/2 cup of blueberries in each of 4 stemmed glassed; pour 1 tablespoon Cointreau over each serving. Beat whipping cream until foamy; gradually add powdered sugar, beating until soft peaks form. Top each serving of blueberries with a dollop of whipped cream.

BERRIES WITH COINTREAU

Steps:

• Hull and halve most of the strawberries, leaving some whole for decoration.
• Using a clear glass bowl for display add frozen berries and fresh strawberries and mix together, leaving the whole strawberries for later.
• Put Cointreau, arrowroot and honey into a small saucepan and heat until it starts to thicken, then add about 1/4 of the berries from the glass dish and puree or blend with a stick blender.
• Pour pureed berries over the mixed berries in the glass bowl and mix well, keeping the whole strawberries on top for decoration.
• Taste now before chilling and adjust flavours, by adding more Cointreau and sweetener if necessary - I usually just add icing sugar instead of more honey.
• Cover with cling wrap and chill then serve with ice-cream or whipped cream.

ZESTY STRAWBERRIES WITH COINTREAU

Steps:

• Tip the strawberries into a large bowl. Splash over the Cointreau, add the orange zest and sift in the icing sugar, then give everything a really good mix. Cover, then leave for 1 hr or more for the juices to become syrupy and the strawberries to soak up some of the alcohol.
• To serve, scatter the mint leaves over the strawberries and give them one more good stir, then spoon into individual glass dishes.