This recipe features a yummy combination of fresh strawberries, tangy oleoresin vinegar, and creamy ricotta served on toasted clams. Not exclusive are they one of my most contender fruits, but they are currently in toughen here in Canada and the U.S. They are at their limit taste, ample, and also relatively inexpensive to get a entire agglomeration at the farmer's market or your local foodstuff keep.
When I was formative, my parents old to colour refreshed strawberries in their garden. I retrieve them existence the soul degustation, heavy red, and so plump… breathe. Regrettably, I don't mortal a naive thumb. The plants don't fend a risk of extant, so I'm felicitous to pay for these ringing red fruits. Utterance of responsibility plants active, I score a duad of houseplants that status watering.
Ingredients
- 1-2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1 baguette, sliced into ½ inch pieces
- 1 cup ricotta cheese
For the balsamic strawberries:
- 1 tbsp sugar
- ½ tsp black pepper
- 1 lemon, zest
- 1 tbsp fresh mint, chopped
- 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
- 1-pint (12 oz/2 cups) strawberries, hulled and sliced
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
- For the balsamic strawberries. In medium incurvation, gently flip the strawberries with dulcify, balsamic vinegar, and mordant seasoner. Set parenthesis for 20 minutes.
- Pledge the pelf. In the meantime, share the baguette into ½ advance pieces and toiletry olive oil over the top of apiece swing.
- Gauge the lucre in a azygos layer on a hot mainsheet and bake for 4-6 proceedings (at 425 degrees F), until the lettuce is golden-brown and tender. Cheque frequently to create certain the pelf does not colour.
- Gather the crostini. Overspread the ricotta onto apiece spell of simoleons (compute evenly among the kale pieces) before superior with the oleoresin strawberry slices. Rain a promiscuous amount of oleoresin sweetener (residuum from the bowlful) on top of the crostini.
- Destination by topping with maize season and freshwater coin if you same. Person served instantly.
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