Salad of vine peaches and apricots with verbena


Salad of vine peaches and apricots with verbena
A simple fruit salad of apricots and vine peaches, with a delicious verbena syrup.
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Last modified on: September 1st 2024

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21 min.7 min.28 min.
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Stage 1 - 7 min.
Salad of vine peaches and apricots with verbena
Pour 200 ml Sugar syrup into a small saucepan over medium heat, add the coarsely chopped 3 sprigs Verbena leaves and bring to the boil.

Turn off the heat, cover and leave to cool.

Stage 2 - 6 min.
Salad of vine peaches and apricots with verbena
Cut 4 peaches (I'm using vine nectarines here) into quarters.

Stage 3 - 6 min.
Salad of vine peaches and apricots with verbena
A little extra, if you wish, is to smooth (cut) the pit of each peach quarter, like the one on the left in the photo, so as to have a very pleasant piece of fruit without roughness.

Stage 4 - 2 min.
Salad of vine peaches and apricots with verbena
Cut each quarter into 3 or 4 pieces and pour into a salad bowl.

Stage 5 - 5 min.
Salad of vine peaches and apricots with verbena
Prepare 10 apricots, then also cut each apricot half into 4.

Stage 6 - 1 min.
Salad of vine peaches and apricots with verbena
Pour into the bowl.

Stage 7 - 1 min.
Salad of vine peaches and apricots with verbena
Pour the cooled vervain syrup through a small sieve to remove the vervain leaves, and stir well.

Serve chilled, but not (too) cold.
Remarks
The original recipe is made with vine nectarines, but vine peaches, or even classic peaches, will work just as well.

The verbena syrup can be made the day before, and stored in the fridge.
Keeping
To be enjoyed during the day.
Nutritional information
Whole recipe
Energetic valueProteins CarbohydratesFats
8,471 Kcal or 35,466 Kj6 gr2,112 gr0 gr
314 %2 %148 %0 %
Per 100 g
Energetic valueProteins CarbohydratesFats
667 Kcal or 2,793 Kj< 1 gr166 gr0 gr
25 %<1 %12 %0 %
Per person
Energetic valueProteins CarbohydratesFats
2,118 Kcal or 8,868 Kj1 gr528 gr0 gr
78 %<1 %37 %0 %
% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2700 k-calories or 11300 k-joules by day for a man (change to a woman).
How much will it cost?
  • For 4 people : 5.98 €
  • Per person : 1.50 €

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This recipe uses (among others)
Sugar syrupSugar syrup: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: How to glaze a tart , Jamaican cup, Strawberry sorbet, Brioche slices with almond cream, Peach and mint salad , ... All
ApricotsApricots: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Dried apricots, Apricot jam with vanilla, Stewed apricots, Apricot and almond cream tart, Apricot and pistachio clafoutis, ... All
PeachPeach: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Peach Melba, Peach and blackcurrant sundae, Peach and mint salad , How to poach peaches, Little blackcurrant and vineyard peach sablé tarts , ... All
VerbenaVerbena: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Peach and verbena feuilleté, Pear verbena tarts, Verbena flan, Little apple and verbena tarts, Breton strawberry and verbena tart, ... All
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