#CookOutWeek – Grilled Strawberries

I know I’m slow to the party, but for years I’ve watched cooking show after cooking show combine strawberries and balsamic vinegar and tout it’s greatness.  For me, I just couldn’t get my mind around adding vinegar to a fruit…until now.  These grilled strawberries are truly delicious and a great ending to almost any meal, especially for a cookout.

This is really more instruction than a recipe it’s so simple.  On Monday, I told you about The French Farm, which specializes in imported European gourmet foods and kitchen accessories from small, family owned businesses.

In this recipe, I used their Terre Exotique Balsamic Vinegar Aged 10 Years, which is an amazing balsamic vinegar that is so smooth and rich, it doesn’t even need to be reduced!  I tossed the berries with some of the balsamic vinegar and granulated sugar and grilled them for about 6 to 8 minutes, just to soften them a bit. After grilling, I plopped them all onto a couple of scoops of vanilla ice cream, then drizzled a small amount of balsamic vinegar on top. 

Where have I been?! Why have I been so stubborn to try this delicious concoction?! Well, now I have…and I think you should too!

Since I’m watching my carbs, I used Splenda instead of sugar and used Breyer’s Carb Smart Vanilla Ice Cream and I thought it was all really good.  In fact, the smokey-sweet grilled strawberries and balsamic masked any artificial flavor of the low carb ice cream that I don’t like.

Print Recipe

#CookOutWeek - Grilled Strawberries

Servings: 4 servings

Author: Jennifer Locklin

Ingredients

• 24 ripe strawberries hulled
• 4 tablespoons aged balsamic vinegar used: Terre Exotique Aged 10 years
• 4 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 1 carton vanilla ice cream

Instructions

• In a medium bowl, combine strawberries and balsamic vinegar, toss to coat.
• Sprinkle with sugar and toss to coat.
• Thread onto wooden or metal skewers.
• Heat grill to medium-high.
• Place strawberry skewers onto preheated grill and grill for about 3 to 4 minutes per side or until slightly softened and grill-marked.
• Serve immediately over vanilla ice cream with additional aged balsamic vinegar, if desired.

A special thank you to The Pinterest Kitchen for organizing CookOutWeek! Check out the details below and enter to win some awesome prizes!

#CookoutWeek – an entire week filled with yummy summer recipes perfect for your next cookout, along with a fun giveaway, courtesy of some awesome sponsors.

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• Char-Broil American Gourmet 600 Series Charcoal Grill (see specs here!)
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• A gift basket of products from Fungus Among Us
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Don’t forget to check back throughout the week with all of the bloggers participating to get some yummy #CookoutWeek recipes. Here’s the full list of participating bloggers:

The PinterTest Kitchen • 2 Cookin’ Mamas • A Day in the Life on the Farm • addicted 2 recipes • Aimee Broussard & Co. • Amy’s Cooking Adventures • Angels Home Sweet Homestead • Bakin’ and Eggcerpts • Balancing Motherhood • Body Rebooted • Cheese Curd In Paradise • Cindy’s Recipes and Writings • Cook With 5 Kids • Cook. Craft. Love. • Cookaholic Wife • Cricket’s Confections • Crumb: A Food Blog • Eat, Drink, Be Healthy! • Everyday Eileen • Fairyburger • Food Parsed • Get the Good Stuff! • Goodie Godmother • Hezzi-D’s Books and Cooks • Home in the Finger Lakes • Jennifer Cooks • Jessie Weaver • Kate’s Recipe Box • Life on Food • Little House Big Alaska • Little Scratch Kitchen • Making Miracles • Moore or Less Cooking • Rhubarb and Honey • Savvy In The Kitchen • Seduction in the Kitchen • Simple Food 365 • Style Island • Thanks for Cookin’! • The Food Hunter’s Guide To Cuisine • The Hungary Buddha Eats the World • The Spiffy Cookie • The Weekday Gourmet • This is How I Cook • Tramplingrose • Vintage Kitty • West Via Midwest

Looking forward to sharing some yummy recipes with all of our readers.