Basil leaves with Strawberries

Basil leaves with Strawberries

Ingredients

Milk – 500 ml 
 Eggs – 4 Nos
 Sugar – 140 gm

Basil leaves – a bunch 
 Lime/Lemon – 1 Nos

Vanilla sugar – 5 gm

Vinegar (Italian) Aceto Balsamico

Strawberries – 500 gm

Preperation

Separate the yellow from the eggs and give in a metal bowl.  Add 100 gm sugar and whip it to a fine cream. Boil the milk and add to the whipped eggs whipping continuously. Boil water in a pot, place the metal bowl over it (steam bath) and whip till the milk-egg mix becomes thick (10-20 minutes). Keep it in the fridge for an hour and allow to cool.

Wash and dry the lime and extract the zest. Wash the basil leaves, drain it and allow to dry spreading them on kitchen towel or tissue paper. Give the basil leaves, lemon zest and vanilla sugar and 50 ml milk in a mixer grinder and grind well.

Now mix the basil paste with the ice mix and place it in the ice maker for an hour. Otherwise if you have no ice maker place the ice in the deep freezer for 3 hours. After each 30 minutes take it out and mix well and replace in the freezer. Otherwise ice crystals may build up in the ice.

Caramelise 50 gram sugar, mix the Italian vinegar and cook for 5 minutes till it becomes a asirup. Wash, dry and cut strawberries into pieces, place them in serving bowls, serve the ice over the strawberries and sprinkle the „Aceto Balsamico“ (vinegar) over it.
Decorate with basil leaves.