Spiced Stone Fruit Compote with Honeyed Yogurt and Pistachios
You can use any combination of stone fruit you desire
- Serves 4
Ingredients
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Ingredients
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1 cinnamon stick
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2 star anise
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Peel of one orange
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½ cup (125 ml) sugar
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2 cups (500 ml) water
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2 peaches, stoned and quartered
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2 nectarines, stoned and quartered
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2 apricots, stoned and quartered
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2 plums, stoned and quartered
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Splash of orange or rose water, optional
To serve
- Double cream yoghurt sweetened with honey
- Chopped pistachios
- Serves 4
Method
- Place spices, orange peel, sugar and water in a large pot and bring to the boil.
- Once sugar has dissolved, add fruit, bring to the boil, reduce heat and cook for a minute or two until 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 fruit. Chill.
- Serve sprinkled with pistachios with honeyed yoghurt on the side.