Saturday, 7 May 2016

A Brief Interlude ...the latest experiment

whilst I think about it … 

Thought you might like to have this recipe up your sleeve for emergencies. All you need to do is add a bag/box of frozen cherries to your shopping list - oh and have 11 minutes to spare.


Cherry Compote

350g cherries, defrosted if frozen
50g granulated sugar
2 tbsp cherry juice
¼ tsp almond essence
2 tsps arrowroot
1 tbsp cold water

Place the cherries, sugar and juice in a saucepan heat gently, stirring. Cook for 10 minutes then break up the cherries so that there are no whole cherries left. Add the almond essence.

Blend the arrowroot and water together then add to the cherry mixture, on a gentle heat, stirring continuously. When the mixture has thickened heat for another minute.

Use over ice cream when warm or set aside to cool and decant into a clean screw top jar and “fridge”.

This cherry compote has many uses – apart from warm served with ice cream. Spread it on toast, serve with yogurt, on top of cereal and definitely with scones.

Here's a photo of the cherry compote. The recipe given fills the 370g jar shown.




Can't think of a down side to this recipe – unless of course you don't like cherries!



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