SPICED NECTARINE SAUCE
Green cardamom pods and fresh ginger root enliven this fruit sauce, made with fresh nectarines. The spices and the cooking impart a tangy, tart flavor to the nectarines. It's great over ice cream or stirred into cooked multi-grain hot cereal and eaten with a splash of cream or soy milk. I created this last summer when I needed to use up some huge ripe nectarines that I purchased at the farmer's market. Substitute about a half a teaspoon of ground cardamom if you don't have the whole green pods.
Provided by Cinizini
Categories Fruit
Time 15m
Yield 2 cups
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- If you'd rather, peel the nectarines; I like having the peel in there.
- Melt butter in small saucepan over medium high heat.
- Dissolve brown sugar in the melted butter, then add the cubed nectarines and the rest of the spices.
- When mixture starts to simmer, turn heat down to low.
- Simmer in order to achieve desired consistency and allow flavors to blend. You will want this to be chunky, with some textural variation--chunks of fruit in a thick, medium-brown sauce. This may take 5-10 minutes. Remove pods before serving (? I'm actually not sure if you can eat them).
- Serve warm with vanilla ice cream, or cool and refrigerate.
- My note: this was excellent with hot multigrain cereal! I cooked the cereal first and then added the sauce, about 1:1, stirred it in and warmed it up along with the cereal for a few minutes on low/simmer. Yummy!
Nutrition Facts : Calories 250.5, Fat 12.4, SaturatedFat 7.4, Cholesterol 30.5, Sodium 84.8, Carbohydrate 36.3, Fiber 5.2, Sugar 28.1, Protein 3
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