From plot to plate: Light cheesecake with marinate strawberries
TV gardener and cookery writer Sarah Raven dishes up the healthiest ways to enjoy your own produce
A delicious take on the classic cheesecake but wonderfully suited for the hot weather
This delicious pudding contains berries, which are very good for you whether fresh or frozen, and coconut palm sugar, which has the same amount of calories as sugar but is more nutritious. You need to start making the cheesecake filling the day before.
Serves 6-8
402 calories per serving for 6, 302 for 8
For the crumble topping
- 60g (2¼oz) wholemeal flour
- 60g (2¼oz) hazelnuts, roughly chopped
- 20g (1tbsp) rolled oats
- A pinch of ground cinnamon
- 40g (1½oz) coconut palm sugar (try Waitrose) or soft brown sugar
- 40g (1½oz) cold unsalted butter, cut into chunks
For the cheesecake filling
- 400g (14oz) quark (like cottage cheese, from supermarkets)
- Finely grated zest of 1 lemon
- Juice of ½ a lemon
- 1tsp vanilla extract
- 1tbsp poppy seeds, dry-fried
- 60ml (2fl oz) clear honey
- 60ml (2fl oz) maple syrup
- 250g (9oz) live Greek yoghurt
For the marinated strawberries
- 1kg (2lb 4oz) strawberries
- Juice of 1 orange
- Juice of 1 lemon
- A little coconut palm sugar or soft brown sugar
Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan 160°C/gas 4. Place the topping ingredients in a bowl and rub together until they resemble breadcrumbs.
Spread out the topping on a baking tray and bake for 7-9 minutes, stirring once halfway through. Remove from the oven and leave to cool. Put all the ingredients for the filling in a food processor and blend until combined, then chill overnight to firm up.
At least an hour before you’re ready to serve, hull the strawberries and cut them in half. Drizzle the orange and lemon juice over, then stir and add sugar to taste. Chill until ready to serve, stirring from time to time. To assemble, spoon layers of strawberries, cheesecake filling and topping into 6-8 serving glasses, then serve.
Good Good Food: Recipes To Help You Look, Feel And Live Well by Sarah Raven is published by Bloomsbury, priced £25. Offer price £18.75 (25% discount) until 28 May 2016. Please call 0844 571 0640 or visit www.mailbookshop.co.uk. P&P free on orders over £15.
Most watched News videos
- CCTV captures final tragic moments of Mirna Salihin's life
- Mother shaves daughters hair after she 'bullies cancer girl'
- GRAPHIC CONTENT: 'Ghost' rises from body after fatal crash
- Bulls head butt each other then die instantly from brutal blow
- Shocking moment girl gets viciously beaten after starting fight
- Mother releases devastating footage of son's final moments
- Lorry smashes into car leaving driver with severe injuries
- Is this the creepy moment the corpse of a girl OPENS her eyes?
- 'Big fat gypsy wedding' in Romania goes on for FOUR days
- Groom ALREADY tired of marriage life just after 15 minutes
- 'Pascal's a G!' Kim Kardashian speaks well of her bodyguard
- GoPro captures the moment a croc swims amongst swimmers
- The Donald hoists his mini-me on stage as his crowd roars –...
- Donald's Great Escape: Trump keeps his campaign alive with...
- Billy Bush 'BRAGGED to his NBC co-workers about lewd Trump...
- From a smiling pose to staring eerily into the distance:...
- Meth mother 'sat back and watched her boyfriend and his...
- This is what happens when you try and go in the 'secret back...
- Sickening moment teenage girl trying to take a selfie is...
- EXCLUSIVE: Money trouble? Kanye West took out a massive...
- Wheelchair-bound woman is gang-raped by six migrants at...
- Heartbroken man commits suicide live on Facebook after...
- Now Wikileaks reveals how Bill Clinton's closest adviser...
- Buns of steel - but are they real? 'Male Kim Kardashian'...