Ingredients for 4 persons

• 600 g wild strawberries

• 400 g sugar, 1 green lemon juice

• 1 vanilla bean

• 100 g Nice PDO olive oil or Grossanne variety

• 150 g whipping cream

• 100 g bitter almond powder

• 20 g sugar

Preparation

- Wash, stem the strawberries.

- Mix them to green lemon juice and sugar.

- Garnish the plate with strawberries in the middle, sprinkle with almond cream and chopped basil leaves.

- Sprinkle some chopped crystallized olives and create a circle of olive oil cream and vanilla.

- Decorate with olive tree leaves.

Bitter almond cream :

- Heat the cream with almond powder and sugar.

- Let it rest.

- Strain (with a conical strainer).

- Reduce of a quarter.

- Cool down.

- Leave aside.

Olive oil emulsified with Bourbon vanilla :

- Open the vanilla bean in two, take the seeds away and heat them in olive oil to 50°c.

- Cool down and leave aside.

When garnishing the plate : emulsify this oil with a mixer to blanch it and add vanilla bean cut into small cubes.

Mr Pelourson