Description
Summer peaches are poached in their own juices with aromatic spice for sweet flavor and then served with the reduced juice-syrup and cool whipped cream or yogurt.
Ingredients
Scale
- 3 peaches
- 2 cups of water
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 4 cloves
- 4 slices of ginger
- 1/2 vanilla pod, split
- 1 tablespoon honey
- greek yogurt or whipped cream or vanilla ice cream
Instructions
- Cut all of your peaches in half and remove pits.
- Take two of the peach halves (one whole peach) and blend it with 2 cups of water.
- Place peach water, remaining halved peaches, cinnamon stick, cloves, ginger, and vanilla in a small, pot and bring to a simmer. You want the liquid to reach the top of the peaches (it’s ok if they’re floating). If there’s not enough liquid, add a bit more water.
- Simmer, uncovered for 10-12 minutes, until peaches are soft and tender but not falling apart.
- Remove peaches from liquid and set aside to cool. Remove skin, it should come off very easily.
- Add honey to the peach water, bring to a boil and boil uncovered for 10 minutes until it thickens into a syrup. Strain the syrup.
- Serve peaches at room temperature with syrup and either greek yogurt, vanilla ice cream or whipped cream.
Notes
Your peaches should still be firm, but ripe, before you cook them. You don’t want them to be falling apart after they are poached.
To make this vegan, substitute agave for the honey and use coconut whipped cream or a non-dairy yogurt as the topping.
- Category: Dessert, Fruit