Dessert
FRUIT REFRESHED WITH SWEET SPICES
FOR 6 PERS. :
- 1 small pineapple
- 6 conference pears
- 12 kumquats
- 2 oranges
- 1 lemon
| - 1 vanilla pod
- 3 cloves
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 8 green cardamom pods
- 100g brown sugar
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Peel the pineapple, cut into quarters and remove the hard core. Cut the flesh into pieces.
Peel the pears, remove the seeds and cut into slices. Remove the zest from one orange and one lemon.
In a saucepan, bring 30cl of water to the boil with the sugar, the juice of the 2 oranges and a dash of lemon juice. Add the zest, a vanilla pod split in 2 and scraped out, cloves, cinnamon and cardamom pods, crushed and enclosed in a spice ball or muslin knot.
Poach the pineapple and pears in the syrup for 10 minutes, covered, over a low heat. Add the kumquats. Cook for a further 10 min, uncovered. Serve warm or cold, in the syrup, with ginger or almond milk ice cream.
To serve with our Cuvée d'Or