Fresh strawberry soup with basil, lemon zest |

Preparation time: 30 min

Preheat your at 0 °F

• General preparation

  Cut the strawberries into small pieces. Set aside the smaller basil leaves for garnish.

• Strawberry soup preparation

  For the syrup, pour the sugar and water in a saucepan and boil the mixture. When the water begins to boil and the sugar has melted, remove pan from heat, add the basil leaves (taking care to keep those aside for decoration), steep 5 minutes, remove the leaves and then let cool your syrup in the refrigerator or an ice bath. When the syrup is cold, fold in the strawberry mixture and let steep 30 minutes.

• To serve

  Arrange strawberries in small glasses and pour syrup on top, garnish with a basil leaf and serve chilled.