Chilled Poached Boysenberries With Marscarpone Cream

Preparation Time: 10 Minutes
Cooking Time: 5 Minutes
Serves: 4

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Ingredients

1/2 cup water
1/2 cup sweet white dessert-style wine
1/2 cup sugar
1 vanilla pod, split (optional)
3 punnets boysenberries hulled (or 500 grams frozen)

Marscarpone Cream

1 cup mascarpone
1 cup cream, lightly whipped


Method

1.  Put the water, wine, sugar and vanilla pod into a saucepan and simmer together for about 3 minutes, stirring until the sugar has dissolved.

2.  Bring to the boil and add the boysenberries. Turn off the heat and set aside. When cool transfer to a large glass dish and remove the vanilla pod. Serve with the Mascarpone Cream.

Marscapone Cream

1.  Fold the mascarpone into the whipped cream; sweeten if wished.


Cooks Tips

Rinse the vanilla pod from the wine mixture and dry it on paper towel on a sunny window ledge. Store in the castor sugar canister for later use.