SPICED STONE FRUIT COMPOTE WITH HONEYED YOGURT & PISTACHIOS

You can use any combination of stone fruit for this.

Serves: 4

Ingredients

• 1 cinnamon stick
• 2 star anise
• peel of one orange
• ½ cup (125 ml) sugar
• 2 cups (500 ml) water
• 2 peaches, stoned and quartered
• 2 nectarines, stoned and quartered
• 2 apricots, stoned and quartered
• 2 plums, stoned and quartered
• splash of orange or rose water, optional

To serve

• Double cream yoghurt sweetened with honey
• Chopped pistachios

Method

1. Place spices, orange peel, sugar and water in a large pot and bring to the boil.
2. Once the sugar has dissolved, add fruit, bring to the boil, reduce heat and cook for a minute or two until the fruit is just tender
3. Remove fruit with a slotted spoon and spoon into a bowl.
4. Increase heat and boil syrup to reduce, it should coat the back of a spoon.
5. Stir in rose or orange water and spoon over the fruit. Chill.
6. Serve sprinkled with pistachios with honeyed yoghurt on the side.

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