Impress your friends with Nigella’s sultry, sexy dessert.
Ingredients and Method
Impress your friends with Nigella’s sultry, sexy dessert.
Why not welcome the heat and the party season with a celebratory drink or, in this case, a boozy jelly! The “slut-red” raspberry recipe is from Nigella Lawson’s Forever Summer (Random House), which is filled with fresh, innovative, versatile recipes; all ravishingly illustrated with full-colour photographs. In this recipe, we substituted fresh raspberries with frozen, mixed berries.
SERVES 6
1 bottle (750 ml) Chardonnay
300 g fresh raspberries or frozen mixed berries
1 vanilla pod, slit lengthways
2 T (30ml) powdered gelatine
250 g castor sugar
Place the wine and berries in a bowl and allow to steep for half an hour. Strain the wine into a saucepan and keep the berries to one side. Heat the wine with the vanilla pod until nearly boiling and leave to steep on one side for 15 minutes.
Remove vanilla pod from wine and reheat. Add the sugar and stir to dissolve. Allow to boil if you want to lose the alcohol. Add a third of the hot wine to the gelatine and stir to dissolve. Add this mixture to the rest of the wine and stir well. Strain into a large jug. Divide the berries equally into six flattish, clear glass serving bowls and pour the strained wine over the top.
Allow to set in the fridge for at least three hours, though a day would be recommended if you want to make this well ahead. Remove from the fridge 15 minutes before serving.
NIGELLA SAYS S Serve with some double-thick cream in a jug, and let people pour this into the fragrant, tender, fruit-jewelled jelly as they eat.
BUT WE SAY S Hold the cream — good, low-fat fresh or frozen yoghurt will do just fine!
Very nice!