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Poached Plums – best-ever!

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21 February 2017 BY Julie Biuso
SERVES: 6

Poached plums

Oh, these are gorgeous … spices and coconut sugar and lime leaves with slightly tart red-fleshed plums … can’t you just taste them?

Ingredients
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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
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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.

Poached plums 1

Poached plums with ice cream

Poached plums 2

Poached plums with Greek yoghurt

Poached plums 3

Poached plums with yoghurt and more syrup

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Comments

  1. Deb says

    February 22, 2017 at 7:01 pm

    Can’t find the ingredient list. . Coconut sugar etc sounds great. Would love to try it as Hawkes bay plums are perfect right now

    Reply
    • Julie Biuso says

      February 25, 2017 at 9:07 am

      All in place now Deb.Do try it – it’ll be superb with Hawkes Bay plums.

      Reply
  2. Barbara Jones says

    February 26, 2017 at 4:18 am

    Gotta say – the plums are divine ! I used Black Doris and lemon zest as I didn’t have any Kaffir lime leaves . Gorgeous !

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    • Julie Biuso says

      March 11, 2017 at 2:21 am

      Sounds a great combination! Glad you like it too.

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