Recipe

Frizze With Spiced Pecans St-agur And Pomegranate Molasses Recipe

	Barbiemensher / All my dishes 9 months, 3 weeks ago This pomegranate molasses can be used for all sorts of dishes. This salad is just one way of highlighting it. Prep:20m Cook:60m Servings:8	Barbiemensh
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Ingredients

Molasses: 1 litre (give or take) of pure Pomegranate juice (POM is good)

2 sprigs tarragon

3 whole cloves

1 cinnamon stick

Pinch chili powder

5 whole peppercorns

1/2 tsp coarse salt

1/4 cup sugar

Pecans: 1 cup pecans

1 small egg white (1/2 large egg white is plenty)

1/4 tsp cayenne

1/4 tsp white pepper

1/8 tsp coarse salt

1/8 tsp sugar

Frizzé: 1 bunch of Frizzé lettuce (or baby greens)

3 Tbsp olive oil - fine quality

coarse salt & pepper

6 ounces of St-Agur blue cheese (pick a mild, creamy blue cheese for this

Directions

Combine all of the molasses ingredients in a sauce pan and bring to a boil. Simmer for 25 minutes. Remove the herbs and spices (strain if necessary) add the sugar and salt and continue simmering until reduced to about 1/2 cup - approx. 40 minutes. Check consistency by listening and watching for snapping bubbles. The mixture should coat the back of a spoon and feel like sticky syrup. As it sits and chills it will thicken even more. Let it cool.

Pecans: Preheat oven to 400. Whisk the egg white with the spices and pour into small ziplock-type bag. Add the pecans and shake to coat them well. Spread the nuts on a silpat or foil lined baking sheet sprayed with non-stick spray. Bake for 10 minutes and set aside.

In a large bowl, toss the lettuce with the oil, salt and pepper. Place in the centre of a plate. Flank with pieces of blue cheese, sprinkle with pecans and (using a fork) drizzle with pomegranate molasses.

*You can use whatever combination of herbs and spices you want to infuse the pomegranate molasses. I also made a honeydew molasses recently using the same method - I used star anise, pinch of turmeric and bay leaves for that one. Any juice that you find that is 100% pure (no sugar added) will do wonderfully.

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