Oh, these are gorgeous … spices and coconut sugar and lime leaves with slightly tart red-fleshed plums … can’t you just taste them?
Ingredients
—¾ cup coconut sugar 2 cups water 3 kaffir lime leaves Small piece cinnamon bark 6 cardamom pods, smashed 2 blades of mace (pieces of mace), optional 700g (1½ lbs) red-fleshed plums which are suitable for poaching Greek yoghurt or vanilla ice cream for serving 4 or more ladyfinger biscuits (boudoir biscuits), optional
Method
—1 Dissolve sugar in water in a large frying pan (skillet) over gentle heat, stirring often with a metal spoon. Add kaffir lime leaves, cinnamon bark, cardamom and mace, if using. Bring to a gentle boil, then simmer for 5 minutes.
2 Halve plums and remove stones if possible. Add to pan cut side up. Spoon over syrup. Poach for 7-10 minutes until tender, spooning syrup over once or twice. Cool plums in syrup, spooning over syrup 2-3 times.
3 Serve with Greek yoghurt, or vanilla ice cream (or hokey pokey ice cream!). If liked, crumble over ladyfinger biscuits before serving.
Recipe Notes
Suitable varieties for poaching include Omega, Black Doris, Billingtons, Elephant Heart, George Wilson.
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Poached plums with Greek yoghurt
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Can’t find the ingredient list. . Coconut sugar etc sounds great. Would love to try it as Hawkes bay plums are perfect right now
All in place now Deb.Do try it – it’ll be superb with Hawkes Bay plums.
Gotta say – the plums are divine ! I used Black Doris and lemon zest as I didn’t have any Kaffir lime leaves . Gorgeous !
Sounds a great combination! Glad you like it too.