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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.

244,857 24.1/5 for 8 ratings

Last modified on: September 7^th 2012

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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20 min.	20 min.

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Step by step recipe

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

% 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 : 12.21 €
Per person : 2.04 €

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Home made.

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Sugar syrup: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Brioche slices with almond cream, Pear charlotte, Strawberry sorbet, Strawberry-mint sorbet, How to glaze a tart , ... All
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	Lemon: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Strawberry-mint sorbet, Stewed apple (compote), Multicoloured cucumber-tomato salad, Chorba, Endives , ... 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, Tzatziki, Courgette tart with mint, Minted Melon, ... All

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Your 2 comments or questions on this recipe

It sound great, but what are those reds fruits in?
Posted by Sarah september 15^th 2008 at 19:40 (n° 1)
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)

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