Gastrique | Chef Lee Chizmar | Tips & Techniques

The 🍓BERRY🍓 BEST Gastrique! 😍 Gastriques are essentially a french sweet-and-sour sauce. The primary flavor typically comes from fruit and the sour, from vinegar. This Gastrique is easily made with sugar, water, strawberries, lime juice, champagne vinegar and chipotle peppers, it's a great sauce to keep on hand. ✅Ingredients for the Gastrique: 1cup sugar ½ cup water ½ cup sliced strawberries Lime juice Champagne Vinegar Pureed Chipotle Peppers ✅Method of Preparation: Pour sugar in a pot with the stove on High Add water, only pouring on the circumference of the sugar in order to keep edges wet to avoid crystallizing. Once mixture starts to gain color swirl, do not stir, the sugar and water to mix. Add sliced strawberries Sprinkle with lime juice and champagne vinegar Pureed Chipotle Peppers to taste. Stir Leave on high heat for only a little longer, until the mixture becomes darker in color.