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Recipe by Justine Drake
Juicy Delicious
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
- Place spices, orange peel, sugar and water in a large pot and bring to the boil.
- 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
- Remove fruit with a slotted spoon and spoon into a bowl.
- Increase heat and boil syrup to reduce, it should coat the back of a spoon.
- Stir in rose or orange water and spoon over the fruit. Chill.
- Serve sprinkled with pistachios with honeyed yoghurt on the side.
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