Strawberries and Pimm’s with Vanilla Mascarpone

With summer just around the corner (although you would be forgiven for thinking otherwise on second glance!) here is a super easy but super tasty recipe to have up your sleeve!

Strawberries and Pimm’s
900g ripe strawberries, hulled and washed
3 tbsp caster sugar
100ml Pimm’s No1 Cup
Few sprigs fresh mint, leaves only

Place the strawberries in a large bowl and scatter over the sugar. Leave for a few mines, then drizzle over the pimm’s and tuck in the mint leaves. Leave them to marinate, covered, but not in the fridge, for an hour before serving. They’re delicious with lemon sorbet or half fat crème fraiche ... but I personally think they are at their best when served with Vanilla Mascarpone (see below).

Serves 8
Feel Good Food, Spring 11

I served this with Vanilla Mascarpone which was as simple as mixing half a tub of mascarpone with a good drizzle of vanilla bean paste, the seeds from half a vanilla pod also works really well.
 

 
PS - I'm quite proud of the mint in this recipe as I grew it myself!!!!  I know it is generally considered a 'weed' but there was a time when I thought I had managed to kill it only to find it springing back to life a few weeks ago and is now growing with vengeance!  I expect there will be a few more mint recipes appearing on this blog in the months to come ;0)