Winter Dried Fruit Compote
From midgelet 15 years ago
- 20 minutes to make
- Serves 12
This dish that is made for the dried fruits of winter, deeply delicious, a recipe which can be used as dessert, a side, or drained and chopped for a pastry fruit filling, or even placed over cake or ice cream!
Ingredients
- 3 cups water shopping list
- 1 cup freshly brewed coffee shopping list
- 1 orange, thinly sliced with rind intact shopping list
- 1/2 cup sugar or more, to taste shopping list
- 1 large lemon, thinly sliced with rind intact shopping list
- 1 cup seedless grapes, white or red shopping list
- 1/2 cup raisins, golden or black shopping list
- 1/2 cup dried cherries shopping list
- 1 pound of mixed dried fruit such as figs, prunes, apricots, nectarines, mangoes, peaches or apples shopping list
- 8 whole cloves shopping list
- 4 cinnamon sticks shopping list
How to make it
- Brew coffee.
- Put water and sugar in a large saucepan and stir over medium heat until the sugar dissolves.
- Put in everything - except the grapes - and simmer for about 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- The fruits will become fork-tender soft, and the liquid will achieve a syrupy consistency.
- Add the grapes and allow the mixture to cool to room temperature.
- Serve in individual bowls or as a side in a pretty glass serving bowl
- You can also strain, chop, and use the softened fruit as a filling for sweet pastries , etc
People Who Like This Dish 3
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- juels Clayton, NC
- momo_55grandma Mountianview, AR
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Reviewed by 4 people-
Very, very interesting! This has so many uses that I need to have some available at all times.. thanks, midge and you got my five.
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lacrenshaw
in Horsham loved it
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sounds delicous and love the variety of uses wow works for me thanks high5
momo_55grandma
in Mountianview loved it
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Very unique recipe! Interesting addition of coffee here. bookmarked and high 5!
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