Ale-Poached Summer Fruit
Ingredients
- 1 vanilla pod
- 500ml bottle of Badger Blandford Flyer Ale
- 200g caster sugar
- 1 ball of stem ginger, finely chopped
- 3 tbsp syrup from the stem ginger
- 2 nectarines, halved and stoned (preferably slightly under ripe)
- 4 apricots, halved and stoned (preferably slightly under ripe)
- Whipped or ice cream, to serve (optional)
Method
- 1
Split the vanilla pod, scrape the seeds into a large saucepan and add the ale, caster sugar, chopped stem ginger and syrup from from the stem ginger jar. Bring gently to the boil, stirring, to dissolve the sugar.
- 2
Reduce the heat and add the nectarines and apricots. Poach gently, turning the fruit until tender (up to 20 minutes).
- 3
Remove the fruit, reduce the syrup by increasing the heat to a boil and serve the nectarines and apricots drizzled in syrup with whipped or ice cream.
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- 1 vanilla pod
- 500ml bottle of Badger Blandford Flyer Ale
- 200g caster sugar
- 1 ball of stem ginger, finely chopped
- 3 tbsp syrup from the stem ginger
- 2 nectarines, halved and stoned (preferably slightly under ripe)
- 4 apricots, halved and stoned (preferably slightly under ripe)
- Whipped or ice cream, to serve (optional)
- 1
Split the vanilla pod, scrape the seeds into a large saucepan and add the ale, caster sugar, chopped stem ginger and syrup from from the stem ginger jar. Bring gently to the boil, stirring, to dissolve the sugar.
- 2
Reduce the heat and add the nectarines and apricots. Poach gently, turning the fruit until tender (up to 20 minutes).
- 3
Remove the fruit, reduce the syrup by increasing the heat to a boil and serve the nectarines and apricots drizzled in syrup with whipped or ice cream.