164 Strawberries Chantilly

Name: Strawberries Chantilly (Fraises à la Chantilly)
Yield: For four people
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 2½ egg whites; sugar substitute equivalent to 4 tablespoons sugar; 6 tablespoons whipping cream or 4 tablespoons double cream stirred with 2 tablespoons iced water; 6 tablespoons whipping cream or 4 tablespoons double cream stirred with 2 tablespoons iced water; 1 tablespoon kirsch; 6 tablespoons whipping cream or 4 tablespoons double cream stirred with 2 tablespoons iced water; 250 g (9 oz) strawberries; 4 handsome fresh mint leaves; sugar substitute equivalent to 4 tablespoons sugar; 1 drop vanilla essence

Fraises à la Chantilly

Preparation info

For
four
people

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cuisine Minceur

By Michel Guérard

Published 1986

About

Ingredients

Main ingredients

250 g (9 oz) strawberries
1 tablespoon kirsch

Europe
France
Dessert
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

Hull the strawberries and put them in a china bowl with the kirsch. Put to macerate in the refrigerator.
Put the egg whites and the sugar substitute, pounded to a powder if necessary, in a large bowl. Place the bowl over a pan of just simmering water and whisk for ten minutes. The mixture will whiten, thicken and then become stiff. Put this meringue in the refr