Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, vi's apricot dessert. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Vi's Apricot Dessert is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Vi's Apricot Dessert is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have vi's apricot dessert using 6 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Vi's Apricot Dessert:
- Get 2 – 3 fresh, ripe apricots per person, you can use 1 white or yellow nectarine or peach instead — whatever is the best and ripest available
- Prepare Thick, full-fat Greek yoghurt, or full-fat crème fraîche
- Get Pecan nuts or almonds, toasted and coarsely chopped
- Prepare Chopped dried fruit, such as dates, figs or dried cranberries
- Take Acacia or Hymettus honey
- Get 1 pinch dried sweet lavender flowers or ground cinnamon (optional). Note: all lavender varieties are edible, but sweet lavender is the best-tasting
Steps to make Vi's Apricot Dessert:
- Place 1 tablespoon of Greek yoghurt or crème fraîche in the bottom of a ramekin or small bowl and top it with several halves of stoned apricots. If you’re using peaches or nectarines, cut them in half, remove the stone and then slice each half into three. Use 5 or 6 pieces per portion.
- Top with 2 tablespoons of yoghurt or crème fraîche. Pour over a generous teaspoon of honey and sprinkle with a tablespoon of mixed chopped nuts and dried fruits and the lavender flowers or cinnamon.
- If the apricots look good but they’re not as ripe and juicy as you’d hope, all is not lost. Make a simple syrup from 300ml of water, 100g sugar and the juice of 1 lemon. Bring it to a boil and simmer for 5 minutes. Add the halved and stoned apricots, bring back up to a boil, remove the pan from the heat and let the apricots cool in the syrup. Refrigerate until needed, drain the apricots and use them as above.
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