Berries in Vino Cotto

Berries in Vino Cotto

Berries make a perfect accompaniment to many sweet desserts and accentuate your dishes presentation.  Severed with panna cotta, crepes, shortbread biscuits, cheesecake, ice-cream etc they make a delicious fruit sauce.

Ingredients

125g or 1 punnet of strawberries, or frozen
125g or 1 x punnet of blueberries, or frozen
125g or 1 x punnet raspberries, or frozen
250ml water
150ml Vino Cotto
50g castor sugar
2 star anise
2 cloves
1 cinnamon stick

Method

Add to a saucepan the water, sugar and Vino Cotto and stir until sugar dissolves over a low heat.
Bring to a simmer and add the remaining ingredients.  Gently cook for 5 minutes.
Remove from heat and allow to cool.
Separate berries from liquid and strain liquid.
Return liquid to saucepan over a gentle heat and reduce liquid to a slightly thick syrup, about 2 minutes*.  The syrup will thicken as it cools.

Serve with berries and drizzle with the Vino Cotto syrup.

Enjoy!
* Being careful not to over cook and burn liquid.

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