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Oven Poached Plums
A simple ever so quick recipe that is really delicious and can use up lots of really ripe fruit. Allow about 3 or 4 plums per person. This recipe also works well if you have over-ripe apricots, apples or pears.
Ingredients show imperial units
Serves 4
- 700g or about 15 over-ripe plums, washed, halved and stone removed
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Cinnamon
Great in buns, cakes, and puddings.
- Add to baked apples or apple pies.
- Break the stick and add to poaching syrup for fruits like pears, plums or bananas or use to infuse wine or punch.
- 4 tablespoons brown sugar
Sugar and Syrups
Try having in stock caster sugar, muscavado, honey and golden syrup
- Once opened ensure they are tightly resealed with quick clips or bag clips.
- If you have got rock-hard brown sugar, crystallised honey/syrup, place in a suitable non-metallic bowl and give a quick blast of about 30 seconds on high in the microwave to bring these back to their normal state.
- 100ml Greek yoghurt or whipping cream flavoured with vanilla essence
Yoghurt
Greek yoghurt is good for adding to curries or making quick dips.
Choose fruit yoghurts for quick puddings for the children.
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 190°C (375°F) mark 5.
- Place the plums on an ovenproof dish and sprinkle with the cinnamon and sugar.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes or until the fruit is tender. Serve warm with Greek yoghurt or vanilla cream.
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Comments on this recipe
Wow I wish I had thought of this before I had thrown out all my plums, well I have tried this recipe only this evening and it went down a real treat. Thank you so much for this site, I love it!
I was wondering what to do with a huge bowl of windfall plums in my fridge - now I know!
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