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Adam Liaw’s strawberry and mascarpone parfait

Adam Liaw

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Strawberry and mascarpone parfait.William Meppem

Parfait can refer to a pâté-type arrangement of chicken livers, a French frozen custard or an arrangement of fruit, cream and (sometimes) sorbet or granita. This is more the latter.

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Ingredients

  • 300g roughly chopped strawberries

  • 1 tbsp honey

  • 1 tsp balsamic vinegar

  • 10 amaretti biscuits (or other similar almond biscuit)

Mascarpone cream

  • 300ml thickened cream

  • ¾ cup icing sugar mixture

  • 1 tsp vanilla bean paste

  • 200g mascarpone

Method

  1. Step 1

    Combine the strawberries with the honey and balsamic vinegar. Coarsely crush the biscuits.

  2. Step 2

    For the mascarpone cream, whip the cream, sugar and vanilla together until it forms soft peaks, then gently whisk through the mascarpone.

  3. Step 3

    In presentation glasses, layer the crushed biscuits, cream and strawberries, then repeat to create a layered parfait.

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Adam LiawAdam Liaw is a cookbook author and food writer, co-host of Good Food Kitchen and former MasterChef winner.

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