Baked strawberries and melons with vanilla ice cream

Name: Baked strawberries and melons with vanilla ice cream
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1 egg (size M); 125 ml Orange juice; 5 TABLESPOONS Sugar; 1 pinch Salt; 125 g Flour; 250 g Strawberries; 400 g Cantaloup melon; 7-10 Tbsp grated peel of 1 untreated orange; 1 l Oil; 4 scoops of vanilla ice cream; 7-10 Tbsp Lemon balm; 7-10 Tbsp Icing sugar

AUTHOR
Shirley Vincent

DIFFICULTY
easy

RATING

COOK TIME
45 mins

TOTAL TIME
45 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 4

1 egg (size M)
125 ml Orange juice
5 TABLESPOONS Sugar
1 pinch Salt
125 g Flour
250 g Strawberries
400 g Cantaloup melon
7-10 Tbsp grated peel of 1 untreated orange
1 l Oil
4 scoops of vanilla ice cream
7-10 Tbsp Lemon balm
7-10 Tbsp Icing sugar

Directions

1
Mix egg, juice, 2 tablespoons of sugar and salt. Add flour little by little while stirring. Let the dough swell for about 20 minutes. Wash and clean the strawberries, halve depending on size. Cut melon into quarters, scrape out seeds.
2
Cut the melon flesh from the skin. Cut the melon into pieces. Bring 75 ml water and 3 tablespoons of sugar to the boil, simmer until syrupy. Add orange peel and let cool down. Heat the oil in a large pot to approx. 180 °C.
3
Dip the fruits in portions into the batter, let them drip off a little and put them into the hot oil. Fry until golden yellow and drain on kitchen paper. Sprinkle the baked fruits with the orange syrup and arrange on plates with 1 scoop of ice cream each.
4
Decorate with balm and dust with icing sugar.