Recipe: Sweet Spiced Fig and Fortified Compote

Recipe: Sweet Spiced Fig and Fortified Compote

Feb 9, 2016

fig compoteHere is a recipe for a spiced fig compote to use the beautiful fruits we are picking from our four black fig trees that grow?by the creek.

Preparation Time: 15mins

Serves 4

 

Ingredients

450g/1 lb Fresh Figs, halved

1?Orange

100g/4 oz Sugar

150ml/5 fl.oz Water

150ml/5 fl.oz Sweet Sherry or Fortified Semillon (our bulk wine is perfect for this)

1 stick of Cinnamon

Instructions

  1. Pare the rind from the orange and squeeze out all the juice.
  2. Put the orange rind, juice, sugar, water, sherry and cinnamon stick into a saucepan and stir over a low heat until the sugar dissolves.
  3. Bring to the boil, stirring occasionally. Add the figs and simmer for 5 minutes. Discard the orange rind and cinnamon.

Serving suggestion

Serve ?hot with rice pudding, custard or cream and a glass of Liebichwein aged fortified such as Classic Semillon or Muscat

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Recipe: Baked Pears in Spiced Wine

Mar 27, 2014

A quick an easy dessert to?showcase any seasonal fruit such as pears, apple or figs. Roasting the fruit in a sweet spiced syrup makes it melt in the mouth.pear red wine 2 S

Degree of difficulty: easy

Preparation time: 10 minutes

Cooking time: 30 minutes

 

Ingredients:

4-6 pears depending on size

2/3 cup?Barossa red wine

2/3 cup Ruby Grenache or Tawny Port

3 tablespoons castor sugar

1 pinch cinnamon

? lemon or lime

? orange

? vanilla bean or ? teaspoon essence

Method:

Step 1

Place fruit in a shallow baking dish. Add red wine and port then sprinkle over sugar and spice.

Step 2

Cut citrus fruit into quarters, slit open vanilla pod and scrape out the seeds. Place citrus and vanilla?seeds around the pears.

Step 3

Bake in the oven for 30 minutes at 200?C.

Step 4

Serve the pears with some of the syrup and a creamy topping (yoghurt or mascarpone)….and an extra?glass of Tawny.

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