Strawberry & gin Eton mess

Name: Strawberry & gin Eton mess
Prep time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 3 tbsp Chase Pink Grapefruit & Pomelo Gin (or any other citrus-flavoured gin); 3 tbsp icing sugar; 230 g strawberries, hulled and roughly chopped; 300 ml Essential Double Cream; 250 g Essential Low Fat Greek Style Yogurt; 1 tsp vanilla bean paste; 4 Cooks' Ingredients Meringue Nest; A few small mint leaves, to serve

Make summer entertaining easy with this grown-up take on the classic British pud. Strawberries look and taste great here, but you can use any seasonal berries.

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Vegetarian

Serves4
CourseDessert
Prepare20 mins
Cook-
Total time20 mins
Plusmacerating

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Ingredients

3 tbsp Chase Pink Grapefruit & Pomelo Gin (or any other citrus-flavoured gin)
3 tbsp icing sugar
230g strawberries, hulled and roughly chopped
300ml Essential Double Cream
250g Essential Low Fat Greek Style Yogurt
1 tsp vanilla bean paste
4 Cooks' Ingredients Meringue Nest
A few small mint leaves, to serve

Method

Mix 2 tbsp gin and 1 tbsp icing sugar in a non-metallic mixing bowl. Add the strawberries and leave to macerate for 30 minutes.
In a large mixing bowl, combine the cream, yogurt, vanilla and remaining 2 tbsp icing sugar. Whisk until thickened. Just before the cream mixture reaches soft peaks, stir through the remaining 1 tbsp gin. Crumble in the meringue nests and stir together.
Spoon equal amounts of the meringue-cream into 4 glasses or bowls and top with a layer of the strawberries. Layer up more meringue-cream and fruit, and scatter with mint leaves to serve.

Cook’s tip

LEFTOVERS

Pink Grapefruit & Pomelo Gin: Pomelo is a fruit similar to grapefruit but larger and slightly sweeter. It helps to give this gin a lovely citrussy flavour – ideal for summer cocktails and martinis.