Raspberries

When it comes to enhancing your culinary creations, high-quality frozen fruit is a game-changer. Among the wide range of options, frozen raspberries stand out as a versatile ingredient that can elevate your home cooking in numerous ways. In this article, we'll delve into the many ways you can use the best frozen fruit, especially frozen raspberries, to infuse your dishes with delightful flavours and vibrant colours.

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Summer is finally here! With recent soaring temperatures across the UK and the school holidays in full swing, we have put together some of our favourite recipes using frozen fruit which are all great for helping you cool down on a beautiful summer’s day. Enjoy making and eating these amazing recipes as a family to enjoy or use them as a way to wow your friends with a cold fruity dessert at your next BBQ.

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With the jingle of Santa’s sleigh bells in the distance, and with little fresh fruit available customarily December, isn’t the month to make preserves. However, with the festive season just around the corner it’s a perfect time to indulge in, and celebrate these jars of joy. For generations past, and very much with a heartfelt ‘waste not, want not’ approach to life these valuable stalwarts of the larder were made using seasonal fruit and veg gluts over the summer, stored...

With autumn well and truly here, temperatures dropping and the wetter weather incoming, what better way to warm up your morning than with a bowl of tasty porridge for breakfast? Once you have mastered our simple, quick and easy recipe, you will be all set to create your own variety of delicious porridge bowls by adding an assortment of different frozen fruits and other tasty toppings - the options are endless!

Basic Porridge Recipe

Serves 2

Ingredients

• 80g rolled porridge oats
• 300ml semi skimmed...

How to infuse your favourite spirit with soft fruit

Infusing your favourite spirit, we would recommend gin or vodka, is a great way to experiment with flavours or diversify your drinks trolley, plus they can make perfect gifts or wedding favours!

For some fruit inspiration, we'd recommend trying some of the below, but you can trial most fruits and see how it goes:

• Raspberries
• Blackberries
• Strawberries
• Rhubarb
• Damsons
• Plums
• Blackcurrants
• Seville Oranges
• Gooseberries
• Chuckleberries
• Blueberries
• Cherries...

Serves 6-8

Ingredients

• 250g British IQF Raspberries defrosted
• 400g jar lemon curd
• 300g pot of crème fraiche
• 50g dark chocolate

Total time required: 25 minutes

Preparation time: 25 minutes

Method

1. Stir together lemon curd and crème fraiche
2. Melt chocolate in the microwave for 2 minutes, stir half way through
3. In a serving glass, layer the lemon curd mixture and defrosted raspberries. Place a few extra berries on the top and drizzle with dark chocolate.
4. Leave to set for 10 minutes.

Serves 2

Ingredients

Blackcurrant coulis

• 400g British (Organic) Blackcurrants frozen
• 140g caster sugar
• 100ml water

Raspberry coulis

• 300g British Raspberries frozen
• 50g sugar        
• 100ml water

Blackberry coulis

• 350g British IQF / Puree/Juicing Blackberries frozen
• 70g sugar
• 100ml water

Summer fruit coulis

• 350g British Summer Fruits frozen
• 70g sugar
• 100ml water

Total time required: 10 minutes

Preparation time: 10 minutes

Method

1. Put the frozen fruit and sugar into a pan with 100ml water, bring to...

Serves 16-20

Ingredients

• 250g British Raspberries frozen
• 200g British (Organic) Blackcurrants frozen
• 2 tbsp water
• 300ml (or a 284ml pot) single cream
• 4 egg yolks
• 150g caster sugar
• 300ml (or a 284ml pot) double cream

Total time required: 20 minutes + freezing

Preparation time: 20 minutes

1. Heat blackcurrants in water, when beginning to break up add raspberries and continue to heat for 1 minute. When turned into a pulp push mix through a nylon sieve.
2. Now make a simple custard by pouring the cream into...

Serves 8

• 500g British IQF Raspberries defrosted
• 150g crushed digestive biscuits
• 75g melted butter
• 400g white chocolate
• 65g butter
• 500g cream cheese
• 50g caster sugar
• 180ml whipping cream

Total time required: 30 minutes + chilling

Preparation time: 30 minutes

Method

1. Mix together the crushed biscuits and melted butter. Press into a springform tin (approximately 23cm) base.
2. Place the chocolate and butter into a heatproof bowl set over a pan of simmering water and melt, set aside to cool.
3. In another bowl...

Serves 6 - 8

Ingredients

For the meringue

• 4 egg whites
• 200g caster sugar

For the topping

• 250g British IQF Raspberries defrosted
• 250ml double cream

Total time required

Preparation time: 20 minutes

Cooking time: 1 to 1 ¼ hours

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180C/Gas 4.
2. Line a baking tray with baking parchment.
3. Beat the egg whites until satiny peaks form and then beat in the sugar a spoonful at a time until the meringue is stiff and shiny.
4. Mound on to a baking sheet in a circle approximately 20cm in diameter...