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Peach and mint salad

Here is a very simple, fresh and delicious recipe; the flavour of mint goes very well with peaches.

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Last modified on: September 7^th 2012

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For 6 people, you will need:

1 8 peaches
2 1 handful fresh mint leaves
3 200 ml Sugar syrup
4 1 lemon
5 1 pinch vitamin C (optional)
Total weight: 1,380 grams

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Stage 1 - 1 min.

Roughly cut 1 handful fresh mint leaves with scissors into a cup.

Stage 2 - 1 min.

Pour on 4 tablespoons of sugar syrup and leave to stand (while preparing peaches) until the syrup takes on the flavour of the mint.

Stage 3 - 5 min.

Peel and to poach 8 peaches.

Stage 4

Over a bowl, take a peach in your hand and cut off small pieces with a knife, without going right to the stone.

We don't use immedieately around the stone as this flesh is less sweet.

Stage 5 - 10 min.

Do this with all the peaches.

Add juice of 1 lemon and mix well.

If peach salad is to be kept longer than one hour, add 1 pinch vitamin C to prevent browning.

Stage 6 - 2 min.

Pour mint syrup over peaches through a fine strainer to remove mint leaves which you can discaed.

Stage 7 - 1 min.

Add more sugar syrup until peaches pieces are well covered.

Cover with plastic film, and keep in the fride until serving.

Stage 8

You can serve in individual bowls, with a few mint leaves for decoration.

Remarks

The secret of this recipe is in the quality and flavouro f the peaches, take best flavoured you can find, different kinds if possible: yellow, white, vine, etc.

If you lke a stronger mint flavour, you can make an infusion. For this: put chopped mint leaves in a pan, with sugar syrup, over low heat and bring to the boil. When boiling, remove from heat, cover and leave to cool. Add to peaches through a strainer as in the classic recipe.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
910 Kcal or 3,810 Kj	1 gr	226 gr	0 gr
45 %	1 %	21 %	0 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
66 Kcal or 276 Kj	< 1 gr	16 gr	0 gr
3 %	<1 %	2 %	0 %

Per person
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
152 Kcal or 636 Kj	< 1 gr	38 gr	0 gr
8 %	<1 %	4 %	0 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 6 people : 6.98 €
Per person : 1.16 €

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Source

Home made.

This recipe uses (among others)

	Sugar syrup: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Blackcurrant sorbet for Edith, Pear sorbet, How to glaze a tart , Pear charlotte, Toasted flaked almonds, ... All
	Peach: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Little blackcurrant and vineyard peach sablé tarts , Peach and blackcurrant coupe, Coupe Augustin, Peach and verbena feuilleté, Mojito peaches, ... All
	Fresh mint leaves: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Framboisier, Strawberries with mint and cream, Minted Melon, Apricot blancmange, Mojito peaches, ... All
	Lemon: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Little vanilla, clementine and chestnut verrines, Quince compote, Lemony cabbage and potato salad, Paella, Fish fillet in express cooking envelope, ... All

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For Sarah : this is a red kind of peaches call "vineyard peaches", they are pretty but not very tasty. If you can find small, very tasty and flavoured vineyard peaches from your grand-mother garden (or something), this will certainly be great.
Posted by jh september 15^th 2008 at 19:47 (n° 2)
It sound great, but what are those reds fruits in?
Posted by Sarah september 15^th 2008 at 19:40 (n° 1)

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