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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| Preparation | Start to finish |
|---|---|
| 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 % |
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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: Strawberry and kiwi fruit salad, 4 pears salad with vanilla, How to glaze a tart , Pear charlotte, Individual charlottes with morello cherries, ... All |
 | Peach: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Peach and blackcurrant coupe, Peach and green tea tart, Peach and verbena feuilleté, Mojito peaches, How to poach peaches, ... All |
 | Lemon: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Multicoloured cucumber-tomato salad, Fish in a salt crust, Windfall apple jelly, Surprise eggs, Santiago Cake, ... All |
 | Fresh mint leaves: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Courgette tart with mint, Strawberry-mint sorbet, Framboisier, Chicken nems, Half-cooked chocolate cake with raspberry coulis, ... 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 15th 2008 at 19:47 (n° 2)
- It sound great, but what are those reds fruits in?Posted by Sarah september 15th 2008 at 19:40 (n° 1)
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