What to do when you have half a bottle of Muscat wine in your fridge, and you don’t know what to do with it? Let’s put our imagination to work! This dessert recipe is quick and extremely simple: Peaches will be poached in muscat and scented with a muscat/verbena syrup. You can use various types of Muscat: Lunel, Rivesaltes, Frontignan, Rastrick, Banyuls, and Maury… It can be done the day before. The peach skin is left to macerate in muscat, which gives it a nice pink color. Serve this dessert with the same wine used in the preparation.
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Ingredients list for the Wine Peaches Dessert Recipe
- 4 white peaches, not too ripe
- 2 cups (50cl) of muscat wine
- A few leaves of lemon verbena
- Red berries for garnishing (red currants, raspberries …)
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Directions
1. Boil 1 liter of water in a large saucepan.
2. Dip peaches for 2 minutes in boiling water and cool them down in a bowl of ice-cold water. The skin should come off very easily. Put the peaches in a deep dish.
3. Boil the muscat wine with verbena and peach skin, let it reduce over low heat for 5 minutes.
4. Pour the boiling syrup over the peaches and chill, turning occasionally. When everything is cold, keep it in the refrigerator for a few hours (or at best overnight).
5. Serve in individual bowls or verrine glasses with drained syrup. Garnish with a few red berries.
Wine accompaniment: Serve this dessert with the same Muscat wine used in its preparation.
Wine Peaches Dessert
- 4 white peaches, not too ripe
- 2 cups (50cl) of muscat wine
- A few leaves of lemon verbena
- Red berries for garnishing (red currants, raspberries ...)
Instructions
- Boil 1 liter of water in a large saucepan.
- Dip peaches for 2 minutes in boiling water and cool them down in a bowl of ice-cold water. The skin should come off very easily. Put the peaches in a deep dish.
- Boil the muscat wine with verbena and peach skin, let it reduce over low heat for 5 minutes.
- Pour the boiling syrup over the peaches and chill, turning occasionally. When everything is cold, keep it in the refrigerator for a few hours (or at best overnight).
- Serve in individual bowls or verrine glasses with drained syrup. Garnish with a few red berries.
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