I love summer! I love the warm weather, the longer days, the bumble bees and most importantly, I love all the summer fruits. I just can't get enough of them. This morning I decided that raspberries are my all time favourite summer fruit ... apart from passionfruit! Strawberries, apricots and peaches all rank pretty highly too, as do nectarines and plums! Just can't get enough of summer!
Smug Pancakes with (A Few Of My Favourite) Summer Berries!
1 batch of Smug Pancakes
60g caster sugar
1 vanilla bean, halved lengthways (pop the bean into a jar of caster sugar afterwards)
1 punnet raspberries
1 punnet blueberries
1 punnet strawberries, washed, hulled, quartered
Combine the sugar, 1/4 cup of water and the vanilla bean in a small saucepan. Stir over low heat until the sugar dissolves. Bring to the boil. Simmer for 2 minutes. Add berries and cook for 1 minute until just soft. Remove from heat.
Serve the berries spooned over the warm pancakes. I also served this with some sweetened vanilla yogurt, just mix a small amount of icing sugar into low fat natural yogurt and stir through with a dash of vanilla extract.
Serves 4
Adapted from the Taste Website
The vanilla (I love the little spots of vanilla seeds that disperse through the sugar syrup) added a wonderful flavour to the sweetness of the fruit, the perfect way to start the day! Think we might be having these summer fruits for breakfast next weekend too ;0)
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