Now that you know all the fun facts about strawberries, why not make something delicious with it?
What is better than a freshly baked pie on a cold winter’s morning?
Ingredients
- 150ml berry jam
- 50ml cornflour
- 50ml sugar
- 5ml lemon juice
- Ready-made shortcrust pastry
- 100ml fresh strawberries, sliced
- A large egg yolk
- 5ml milk castor sugar, for dusting
Method
- Preheat oven to 180°C.
- Mix jam, cornflour, sugar and lemon juice. Set aside.
- Grease and line a baking sheet, letting the paper hang over by at least 2cm.
- Unroll the pastry and cut in half. Roll out one of the pastry halves on a lightly floured surface to form a rectangle about 0,5cm thick. Place it on the baking sheet.
- Roll out the other half into a rectangle slightly smaller than the first.
- Refrigerate for 15 minutes.
- Spread the berry mixture on the pastry in the baking sheet. Arrange the strawberries on top. Cover with the remaining pastry and fold in the edges, pinching lightly to seal.
- Mix the egg yolk and the milk together and brush over the pastry. Sprinkle with castor sugar and bake in a preheated oven for 25 minutes, or until the pastry is cooked. – FOOD24.COM
