Strawberry Lime Twister Food

STRAWBERRY-LIME BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Place crushed pretzels and 1/4 cup sugar in a small bowl; stir in melted butter. Spread out in an ungreased 15x10x1-in. baking pan. To toast, bake until golden brown, 9-11 minutes. Cool completely., Meanwhile, in a bowl, add boiling water to gelatin; stir 2 minutes to completely dissolve. Gently stir in strawberries. Cool slightly. Refrigerate 30 minutes., In a large bowl, beat cream cheese, lime zest, lime juice, vanilla and remaining sugar until blended. Stir in cooled pretzel mixture. Spread into an ungreased 13x9-in. baking pan. Top with strawberry mixture. Refrigerate, covered, 2 hours or until firm.

STRAWBERRY LIME MOUSSE

Steps:

• Put the sweetened condensed milk, strawberries, sugar and lime juice in a blender. Blend until smooth and well mixed. Transfer to a bowl. Using a rubber spatula, fold in the lime zest and thawed frozen whipped topping until thoroughly combined.
• Scoop into 6 pretty glasses and add a vanilla wafer to each serving.

STRAWBERRY LIMEADE

Steps:

• Place lime juice, cold water, sugar, and strawberries in blender and blend on high until smooth. While blender is running, add ice cubes one at a time.

STRAWBERRY LIME SMOOTHIES

Steps:

• Process all ingredients in a covered blender until smooth.

STRAWBERRY-LIME CURD

Steps:

• Mix strawberry puree, sugar, cornstarch, lime zest, lime juice, and salt in a bowl.
• Melt butter in a saucepan over medium-low heat. Remove from heat and stir in strawberry mixture until well combined. Add egg yolks, stir, and return to heat.
• Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until strawberry curd coats the back of a spoon and is slightly thickened, 8 to 10 minutes.

STRAWBERRY-LIME ICE

Steps:

• Place half of the strawberries, ice, powdered sugar and lime juice at a time in food processor. Cover and process until smooth. Pour into loaf pan, 9x5x3 inches. Freeze at least 2 hours or until icy.
• Break strawberry mixture into chunks into bowl. Beat with electric mixer on low speed about 2 minutes or until smooth. Pour back into loaf pan. Freeze about 4 hours or until almost firm. Scoop or spoon into dessert dishes. (If mixture becomes too firm to scoop, remove from freezer about 1 hour before serving.)

STRAWBERRY LIME TWISTER

Steps:

• Bring the strawberries, sugar, and water to a boil, and then simmer until the sugar is dissolved, about 10 minutes.
• Allow the mixture to cool, then strain through a sieve, pressing to extract as much juice as possible.
• Stir in the lime juice, and serve in tall glasses over ice.
• Garnish with mint.

STRAWBERRY LIME SLUSH

Steps:

• Remove and discard caps from strawberries.
• Place ice and half of strawberries in blender or food processor.
• Cover and blend on high speed about 30 seconds, stopping blender occasionally to scrap sides, until almost smooth.
• Pour into 2 quart pitcher.
• Place remaining stgrawberries, powdered sugar, and lime juice in blender or food processor.
• Cover and blend on high speed about 30 seconds or until almost smooth.
• Pour mixture into pitcher; stir.
• Pour into glasses.
• Serve immediately.

STRAWBERRY-TOPPED LIME MOUSSE TART

Steps:

• For crust:
• Blend first 4 ingredients in processor until nuts are ground but some small pieces still remain. Add butter; cut in using on/off turns until mixture resembles fine meal. Blend in enough water by teaspoonfuls until mixture begins to form clumps. Gather dough into ball; flatten into disk. Press dough evenly over bottom and up sides of 9-inch-diameter tart pan with removable bottom. Freeze crust until firm, about 30 minutes. Preheat oven to 375°F. Bake crust until deep golden brown, about 30 minutes. Transfer to rack and cool.
• For filling:
• Place lime juice in small bowl; sprinkle gelatin over. Let stand 10 minutes to soften. Bring 1/4 cup cream to simmer in medium saucepan. Reduce heat to low. Add white chocolate; stir until melted and smooth. Add gelatin mixture; stir to dissolve. Mix in peel. Chill until cold and beginning to thicken but not set, stirring often, about 45 minutes. Beat sugar, sour cream and remaining 1/2 cup cream to medium-stiff peaks in medium bowl. Fold whipped cream mixture into white chocolate mixture. Spoon mousse into crust. Chill until mousse sets, about 4 hours. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and refrigerate.)
• For topping:
• Decoratively arrange berries atop mousse. Melt jam in small saucepan over low heat, stirring often. Brush enough jam over berries to glaze. (Can be made 4 hours ahead. Cover; chill.)

STRAWBERRIES WITH LIME & LONG PEPPER SYRUP

Steps:

• Using a vegetable peeler, pare the zest from 1 lime in long strips. Shave away any white pith from the back of the zest (this can make it bitter), then put the zest in a medium pan. Squeeze both of the limes and add the juice to the pan with 3 tbsp water, the sugar and the crushed and whole peppercorns. Heat gently until the sugar dissolves, boil, then take off the heat.
• Spread out the strawberries in a serving dish, then pour over the hot syrup and allow to cool. As this happens, the syrup will become rosy pink. Serve at room temperature with scoops of ice cream.