PEACHES IN SAUTERNES
PEACHES IN SAUTERNES
Ingredients
- 8 fresh unsprayed lavender heads
- rinsed
- 1 unwaxed lemon
- rind peeled from the fruit in long strips
- 8 firm
- ripe peaches
- peeled
- stones removed
- sliced
- 375ml/13fl oz Sauternes
- or similar sweet dessert wine
- chilled
- crème fraîche
- to serve (optional)
Directions
- Arrange the peach slices into the bottom of a large serving dish. Sprinkle over the lavender heads and add the strips of lemon rind.
- Pour over enough dessert wine to cover the peaches. Turn the peach slices over a couple of times to coat them in the liquid
- then cover the dish and chill the mixture in the fridge for at least four hours
- or preferably overnight.
- To serve
- spoon a portion of peaches in Sauternes into each of six serving bowls. Serve with a dollop of crème fraîche
- if using.
