Chilled Berry and Green Tea

Methods

• Finely chop papaya, pear, apple and put into a bowl. Chop strawberries and put into another bowl.
• Boil 5 cups of water in a deep non-stick pan, add the green tea leaves tied in muslin cloth. Add sugar and continue to boil, stirring, till the sugar dissolves.
• Remove the muslin cloth with the tea leaves from the pan.
• Chop dry apricots and put into the green tea decoction. Add frozen berries and mix.
• Add cornflour slurry and cook till the mixture thickens. Transfer into a bowl and set aside to cool.
• Keep a small cookie cutter on 4 cake slices and cut 4 small roundels. Keep a slightly bigger cookie cutter on the remaining 4 cake slices and cut bigger roundels.
• In each of 4 serving glasses put some berry mixture. Keep the smaller cake roundel over it.
• Spread some strawberries pieces over it. Put some more berry mixture and top it with the bigger cake roundel. Over this spread some papaya-pear-apple mixture and top it with the berry mixture. Decorate whipped cream and a mint sprig and serve immediately.