Fresh Strawberry Milk

I know it’s September and technically strawberry season is over, but my local grocery stores have been stocking the juiciest and most ripe berries I’ve seen! They’re so ripe that they ooze ruby-red juices in the containers themselves! Berries like that must be revered, so I did what any sane person does- I stocked up 😉

We’ve been munching on them as is, but along with a host of bakes I’d like to try, I blended some up into delicious homemade fresh strawberry milk! The recipe is via Smitten Kitchen, and although the addition of buttermilk sounds strange, it just works. The milk is amazing consumed right away, and tastes like the bottled red stuff (except totally natural!), and once you let it sit overnight, it almost takes on a lassi- flavor! So good!

Fresh Strawberry Milk

Yield: 4 – 6 Servings

Ingredients:

• 1 pound strawberries, hulled and diced
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 3 cups milk
• 1 cup buttermilk

Directions:

In a large bowl, combine strawberries and sugar. Allow the strawberries to macerate and accumulate their juices for at least one hour. Use an immersion blender (or regular blender) and blitz until completely smooth.

Add milk and buttermilk. Mix well and refrigerate overnight.