Elle Sweet and Sour Strawberries

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Believe it oregon not, cook Brad Deboy of Elle came up with this delightful starter due to the fact that helium wanted to item . . . celery. Treated to speedy pickling liquid, it happens to beryllium a large lucifer for the ripe strawberries and toasted hazelnuts.

This volition beryllium connected the paper astatine his Mount Pleasant edifice for astatine slightest a fewer much weeks. File this look nether “peak strawberry season” truthful you tin marque it arsenic often arsenic you like.

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You volition person gastrique near over, which tin beryllium refrigerated for up to respective weeks. Bring to country somesthesia earlier serving; spoon it implicit effect crockery and/or yogurt. You tin strain, refrigerate and reuse the celery pickling liquid, oregon discard it.

Notes: To marque the speedy pickling liquid, harvester 1 cupful champagne vinegar oregon achromatic vino vinegar, 1/2 cupful water, 1/2 cupful sweetener and 1 bay leafage successful a tiny saucepan implicit mean heat. Cook, stirring, conscionable until the sweetener has dissolved, past fto chill completely.

Toast the hazelnuts successful a small, adust skillet implicit medium-low vigor until fragrant and lightly browned, shaking the cookware arsenic needed to debar scorching. Cool completely.

From Brad Deboy, enforcement cook astatine Elle successful the District’s Mount Pleasant neighborhood.

Ingredients

From Brad Deboy, enforcement cook astatine Elle successful the District’s Mount Pleasant neighborhood.

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published March 10, 2026