How to Make Strawberry Fool

Serves: 6

Preparation time: 15 mins + 2 ½ hours (inactive)

Cooking time: 10 mins

Ingredients needed to make Strawberry Fool:

• 12 oz strawberries, rinsed, hulled and chopped into large chunks
• 1 cup heavy cream, chilled
• ½ cup + 2 tbsp granulated sugar
• ½ tsp vanilla extract
• 1 ½ tsp fresh lemon juice
• ½ tsp lemon zest, finely grated
• Pinch of fine salt

Cooking instructions for Strawberry Fool:

• Dump the strawberry chunks into a medium saucepan along with ½ cup sugar as well as a dash of salt and give it a nice stir to coat the berries well with sugar.
• Smash them into a smooth paste, with few chunks remaining, using a potato masher and cook it over high flame for about 5 minutes, stirring at times, until the mixture turns bubbly.
• Skim off the froth gathering on the surface and add a splash of lemon juice into it.
• Sprinkle the grated lemon zest and stir them all together until well combined.
• Bring it to a rolling boil and continue to do so for a couple of minutes.
• Turn off the heat and get rid of the foam over its surface.
• Tip the sauce into a large bowl and set aside to cool completely.
• Place the cooled sauce in a fridge and chill it for half an hour.
• Empty the cup of cream in a large bowl and whisk it thoroughly until it forms soft peaks.
• Spoon in rest of the sugar as well as vanilla extract and whisk further until well mixed and the mixture forms stiff yet moist peaks.
• Set ¼ cup of strawberry sauce aside and fold rest of it into the whisked mixture until they blend thoroughly, leaving only few swirls of the sauce visible to us.
• Spoon it into 6 serving bowls and drizzle reserved sauce over them.
• Return it into the fridge to chill for a couple of hours.
• Serve chilled.

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