Sweet strawberries, bitter chocolate and icy champagne in a sweaty glass - the perfect start to a love story.
Minus the champagne - and a delightful dessert is ready, which in season you can indulge the household and entertain guests.
Preparing a treat is easy.
Strawberries in chocolate - the general principles of cooking
Among all the quick desserts, the strawberry-chocolate duet is considered the easiest to perform. All you need is a chocolate bar and a glass or another fragrant berry. The larger it is, the more effective the flow will be.
If the berries are clean, they do not need to be washed. Otherwise, the strawberries are quickly washed with cold water and dried on a towel. You can dry them directly in a colander, making sure that the water is completely glass.
Bad berries (spoiled, overripe or immature) are picked and discarded. For a more effective presentation, samples of the same size are selected, a berry to a berry. Small, as a rule, also do not use.
Recipes for strawberries in chocolate at home most often include melted chocolate. Tile to break into pieces and melt in a water bath, stirring the mixture slightly. Another option is to place the chocolate for half a minute in the microwave.
In addition, chocolate can be broken into pieces to decorate the finished dish or rubbed on a fine grater. For making strawberry dessert, any chocolate is suitable: dark, white, milk. Sometimes two kinds of chocolate are mixed.
The taste is perfectly complemented by coconut chips, nut and wafer crumbs, marmalade cubes, ice cream, mascarpone, honey. Having mastered the basic recipe for strawberries in chocolate at home, you can experiment as you please.
Strawberry in chocolate “Romantic evening”
The classic of the genre is dark chocolate frozen on delicate strawberry skin. The simplest serving option that does not require any special culinary talents. Ingredients:
• two glasses of selected strawberries;
• spoon of powdered sugar;
• three or four bars of chocolate.
Cooking Method:
Wet the berries with a wet towel or wash them.
Chocolate break into pieces and melt over boiling steam. In order not to form lumps, constantly stir the sweet mass.
Strawberry grab the tail and dip in chocolate.
Put the berries on a flat dish covered with parchment paper.
When the strawberries are a little dry, repeat the chocolate “bathing”.
Send the berry in the fridge to frost better.
Feeding, sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Chocolate covered strawberries with peanut crumb
Delicious savory strawberries in chocolate at home, the recipe of which is proposed below, has a delicate nutty flavor. For its preparation requires more components. The dessert is very good for tea.
Ingredients:
• two glasses of broken chocolate or chocolate chips;
• a glass of roasted peanuts;
• two glasses of large strawberries;
• half a cup of peanut butter.
Cooking Method:
Cover a large chopping board or baking sheet with parchment paper.
Put chocolate pieces and peanut butter in a metal bowl. Mix.
Melt the pasta with chocolate so that there are no lumps. The mass should be absolutely homogeneous.
Roasted peanuts crushed into fine crumb (but not paste) in a mortar. You can chop with a knife or roll with a rolling pin.
Pour peanut chips into a plate.
Washed and dried strawberries dip in chocolate base.
Immediately roll in peanut crumb.
Put the berries on a baking sheet.
Send in the fridge for 10 minutes to chocolate grabbed.
Serve on a dessert plate.
Strawberries in chocolate “Love boats”
This recipe for strawberry in chocolate at home is rather complicated in execution. We'll have to try to surprise the guests with an unusual presentation. Additional ingredients will make the taste more refined. For the preparation of dessert will need molds for making "boats". These can be special shapes or plastic cases of chocolate eggs or candy. Ingredients:
• bar of any chocolate;
• a glass of heavy whipping cream (at least 35% fat);
• five tablespoons of condensed milk;
• two glasses of large, fresh or frozen strawberries;
• teaspoon of vanilla sugar.
Cooking Method:
Pour chocolate bar into small pieces.
Melt any way steamed or in the microwave.
Forms lubricate and coat with a brush chocolate mass.
Place the forms in the refrigerator for 2-3 minutes.
Apply a second layer of chocolate, send again in the cold.
Mix vanilla sugar and condensed milk with cream, mix.
Beat cream at high speed. It should make a thick lush cream.
When the chocolate in the molds completely hardens, take them out very carefully.
Fill the boats with whipped cream using a pastry bag with a star nozzle. If there is no bag, fill the chocolate molds with cream using a regular teaspoon.
Cut strawberries into slices. Frozen berries need to be cut until it is completely melted. If the berry is frozen, it must be done before it is completely thawed.
Lay 4-5 slices of strawberries vertically in the boat and immediately filed.
Strawberry in chocolate “The languid evening”
Fans of white chocolate can be pleased with a wonderful light dessert. White chocolate has a delicate, specific creamy taste. In combination with dark chocolate chips it turns out very tasty. An easy recipe for strawberries in chocolate at home is easy and quick to prepare.
Ingredients:
• white chocolate bar;
• a glass of selected strawberries;
• a glass of small chocolate chips made of black chocolate.
Cooking Method:
Prepare strawberries by washing and drying the berries.
Cover the baking sheet with baking paper.
Chocolate chips poured into a wide plate.
White chocolate melt.
Dip the berries first into a melted white mass.
Immediately dip in black chocolate chips, lightly pressing. Put the berries on the paper.
Send in the fridge so that the chocolate clutches.
Strawberry in chocolate “Coconut Paradise”
Coconut can give a classic strawberry and chocolate flavor a completely new sound. This recipe for strawberries in chocolate at home requires the participation of only white chocolate.
Ingredients:
• a glass of selected strawberries;
• three white chocolate bars;
• a glass of finished coconut chips.
Cooking Method:
Cover a large cutting board or baking sheet with parchment paper.
Prepare strawberries.
Chop the chocolate bars into a bowl and melt.
Coke flakes pour into the plate.
Dip strawberries first in melted chocolate, then in chips.
Put on parchment, put in fridge or cool room to harden chocolate.
Strawberries in chocolate with liqueur and ice cream
Exquisite taste of this dish and spectacular presentation makes it worthy of a festive feast. Strawberries in chocolate at home, the recipe of which includes alcohol, should not be offered to kids.
Ingredients:
• a bar of dark chocolate;
• a glass of strawberry;
• one hundred grams of vanilla ice cream;
• a quarter cup of cream liqueur (“Baileys”, “Sheridan”, etc.);
• several leaves of fresh mint.
Cooking Method:
Chop and melt chocolate.
In portioned bowls spread out in a spoonful of ice cream.
Dip strawberries in white chocolate.
When the chocolate hardens, put the strawberries on top of the ice cream.
Pour a spoonful of liquor over each serving.
Put mint leaf in each ice cream bowl.
Strawberry in chocolate “Mint Duet”
The combination of white and black chocolate is unlikely to leave indifferent lovers of sweet desserts. Mint note gives the dish a summer freshness.
Ingredients:
• two glasses of strawberries;
• a bunch of fresh mint;
• white chocolate bar;
• a bar of dark chocolate.
Cooking Method:
Prepare strawberries. Melt dark chocolate.
Cover parchment or board with parchment.
Dip the strawberries whole in the melted slurry and spread on parchment paper.
Melt a bar of white chocolate.
Dip the berries in a white mass to half or one side.
Put it back on the parchment and send it in the cold for 15 minutes.
Mint leaves rubbed with your fingers and put on a la carte saucers.
Put the dessert on top and serve.
Strawberries in chocolate with mascarpone and ice cream
Another recipe for strawberries in chocolate at home, including ice cream and mascarpone cream cheese. An unusual combination, wonderful taste and a wonderful delicacy on hot days.
Ingredients:
• two bars of dark chocolate;
• two glasses of strawberries;
• two hundred grams of ice cream (or creme brulee);
• one hundred grams of mascarpone;
• a little sugar.
Cooking Method:
Set aside five strawberries.
Grate chocolate on a fine grater.
The rest of the berries together with a spoonful of sugar (to your taste), beat in a blender.
Pour strawberry mass on the bottom of tall glasses.
On top of the strawberry layer put a spoonful of mascarpone.
On top of the cream cheese to put the ball of ice cream.
Sprinkle with a spoonful of grated chocolate.
Top decorate the composition with berries and serve.
Strawberries in chocolate - tricks and useful tips
- To make it easier to glaze the strawberries in the melted chocolate, stock up on canapé skewers (wooden, plastic strawberries will not hold, will slide). The berry is best cooled to frosting on the top shelf of the refrigerator. Skewers need to stick into the berry through the tail and in this form dip into the chocolate mass. It remains to put the skewer in a glass with a berry up and send the “bouquet” in the cold until it hardens.
- If the chocolate is badly heated, you can help. Just add a spoon or two low-fat cream or half-spoon of butter to the dish. Stir mass necessarily.
- It is necessary to freeze berries in liquid chocolate in the refrigerator. In the room, the process will go very slowly and will not give the desired result.
- The strawberries in front of the “chocolate bath” should dry completely. Drops of moisture will give the berry a sloppy, ugly look, you get lumps or bald spots.
- It is necessary to heat chocolate on the smallest fire. Dishes can be metal or from any heat-resistant material.
- Strawberries in chocolate can be attributed to low-calorie dishes (with the exception of options with ice cream, sugar, mascarpone). If the chocolate is black, then the dish will contribute to weight loss due to the fact that it has fiber, caffeine, phenols. So the dish is quite possible to include in the diet.
- In addition, real dark chocolate is very useful, because cocoa beans have the ability to slow down aging (they have a lot of antioxidants) and remove bad cholesterol. In addition, chocolate contributes to the production of happiness hormones (endorphins and serotonin).
- Fresh strawberries are not only a wonderful source of ascorbic acid, but also a natural aphrodisiac. It is not by chance that strawberry in chocolate has become a symbol of romantic and love dates. It enhances not only male potency, but also female libido.
