Maker Β· Made, North Brabant Β· Fruit
Beekers Berries
Soft fruit from Made. Beekers grows Sonata as the sweet, steady base, a line of specialties for flavour and colour on the plate, and the Framberry, which tastes of raspberry. Plus unripe green strawberries for pickling.
The story
Who's behind it
Beekers Berries is a soft fruit grower in Made, North Brabant. Strawberries take the lead, with other soft fruit from the same house. They grow under glass and polytunnel, so the season runs longer than in open fields and quality stays even from the first box to the last.
Alongside Sonata, the variety for the sweet, reliable base, Beekers has a line of specialties with six other strawberry varieties. They differ in colour, acidity and sweetness. You can build a dish around them.
What Beekers supplies
The Framberry tastes distinctly of raspberry, and you can taste it on the plate. For most guests it's a new product. The harvest is limited and seasonal, so plan ahead.
The green strawberries are picked early on purpose, sharp and firm. In the kitchen you can pickle them, cure them or use them as an acid element in a savoury dish.
Beekers generates part of its on-site energy with its own solar panels. Worth a mention on a menu built around origin.
In your kitchen
Start with Sonata as the steady, sweet base for dessert and mise en place. Use the specialties to play with colour and acidity. The Framberry works as a pre-dessert or amuse.
Pickle the green strawberries briefly and you have a crisp, sharp counterpoint to fatty fish, smoked products or aged cheese.
Discuss availability per season, as the specialties and the Framberry come in limited harvests.
Chefβs tip
Ask for the green, unripe strawberries. Pickle them briefly in a light brine or sweet-sour liquor for a crisp, sharp element next to fatty fish, foie or aged cheese.
How to use it
Ideas for your menu
Pickled green strawberry
Unripe strawberry in light pickle, crisp and bright-acid alongside smoked eel, mackerel or aged cheese.
Framberry raw
The raspberry-tasting strawberry served raw, with buttermilk, white chocolate or as a fresh finish to dessert.
Sonata macerated
Sweet Sonata briefly macerated with lemon and pepper, classic dessert or savoury with burrata and tomato.
Specialties as tasting
Multiple strawberry varieties side by side, differences in colour, acidity and sweetness on one plate.
For your menu
βStrawberries from Beekers Berries in Made, including the raspberry-tasting Framberry.β
Products from Beekers Berries
What we carry from this maker
Aardbeien groen per 500 gram
Aardbeien Sonata 500 gram
Prices and availability are in the portal. Become a customer or log in to order.
Taste it in your own kitchen
Book a no-obligation tasting with Niels and taste it for yourself.
Veelgestelde vragen
- Where can a restaurant buy Beekers Berries strawberries?
- Jimmy Loves Food supplies Beekers Berries to restaurants and hotels in the Netherlands, including Sonata strawberries and green unripe strawberries. Customers order them through our ordering portal.
- What are green strawberries used for?
- Green strawberries are harvested early on purpose, so they are firm and bright with acidity. Kitchens pickle or cure them, or use them as a fresh sour accent on the plate.
- Where are Beekers Berries grown?
- Beekers Berries is a soft fruit grower in Made, North Brabant. They grow under glass and polytunnel, which extends the season and keeps the quality consistent.
- How often does Jimmy Loves Food deliver?
- We deliver fresh six days a week to restaurants, hotels, caterers and events, in Amsterdam, het Gooi, Almere, the province of Utrecht and the Veluwe.