Poached Peaches With Raspberries Recipes

VANILLA-ROASTED PEACHES WITH RASPBERRIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a large, shallow baking dish, combine butter, lemon juice, sugar, and vanilla bean (seeds and pod). Add peaches, and turn to coat with butter mixture; arrange, cut side down, in a single layer.
• Roast until peaches are tender and cooking liquid is syrupy, 15 to 25 minutes, brushing with cooking liquid halfway through. Serve peaches (warm or at room temperature) with ice cream and raspberries; drizzle with cooking liquid.

POACHED PEACHES WITH RASPBERRIES

Steps:

• Bring water, sugar, wine, 1/4 teaspoon salt, the cinnamon, zest, and peppercorns to a boil in a medium stockpot, stirring to dissolve sugar. Add peaches; cover with cheesecloth or parchment to keep submerged. Reduce heat; simmer, turning peaches once, until tender and skins are loose, 7 to 9 minutes.
• Remove from heat; discard cinnamon stick. Stir in lemon juice, and add half the raspberries. Let cool, covered with cheesecloth to keep moist, for 30 minutes. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours. Remove peaches, and slip off skins; discard. Strain poaching liquid; discard solids. Serve peaches in liquid, and top with remaining raspberries.

VANILLA POACHED PEACHES WITH WHIPPED MINTED YOGURT

Steps:

• Make the peaches: Place the water, sugar, and vanilla bean in a medium saucepan. Stir over medium heat until the sugar has dissolved. Once the sugar has dissolved, remove the vanilla bean and scrape the inside of the bean into the liquid. Add as many peaches to the pan as it will hold without piling or crowding, and poach over a low simmer for about 8 minutes or until the fruit is soft. Remove the peaches and finish poaching the remainder of the fruits. When done, place the peaches in a glass baking dish, cut side down. Pour the vanilla syrup over the peaches, and refrigerate until chilled, for up to 8 hours.
• For the yogurt: Place the water and sugar in a small saucepan, stir and simmer until sugar is dissolved. Add the mint leaves and simmer for 2 minutes, remove from heat, cover and let stand for 5 minutes. Strain and chill the syrup.
• In a bowl, whip the syrup and cream with a hand-held mixer until stiff. In another bowl, whip the yogurt until smooth and fold it into the cream mixture.
• To serve the peaches: Place 2 peach halves in a shallow bowl, and dollop with some of the minted yogurt cream. Garnish with fresh mint sprigs and raspberries.

POACHED PEARS WITH RASPBERRY SAUCE

Steps:

• In a small saucepan, bring the water, sugar and wine to a boil. Reduce heat; carefully add pears. Cover and simmer for 5-10 minutes or until tender. Remove pears and reserve cooking liquid., In a small bowl, combine spreadable fruit and vanilla. Stir in enough cooking liquid to form a sauce consistency. Cover and refrigerate sauce and pears separately until chilled. , Remove sauce from the refrigerator 15 minutes before serving. Place two pear halves on each dessert plate; top with sauce. Garnish with raspberries and mint if desired.

POACHED PEARS IN RASPBERRY SAUCE

Steps:

• Core pears from the bottom, leaving stems intact. Peel pears. If necessary, cut 1/4 in. from bottom so pears will sit flat. Place in a Dutch oven. Add the pear juice, cinnamon stick, ginger, cloves and nutmeg. Cover and bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer for 25-30 minutes or until pears are tender. , Remove the pears and place in serving dishes. Discard cinnamon stick and cloves from poaching liquid. In a small bowl, combine cornstarch and cranberry juice until smooth; stir into liquid. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Add raspberries and syrup. Remove from the heat; cool slightly. , In a blender or food processor, puree raspberry sauce in batches until smooth. Strain and discard seeds. Pour sauce over pears. Serve warm, at room temperature or chilled.

POACHED PEACHES WITH RASPBERRY SAUCE

Steps:

• To prepare peaches, bring juice, water and spices to a boil. (Make sure your pot is narrow enough so that the liquid will cover the peaches).
• Drop peaches in liquid and poach for 10 minutes.
• Remove the peaches, cover with cold water and slip off the skins.
• Cut each peach in half and remove the stone.
• Place the peaches in a glass or porcelain bowl. (The poaching liquid can be saved and re-used).
• For the sauce, mix the water and sugar in a saucepan, heat to a low boil and simmer until liquid has reduced by 1/2.
• In a blender, puree 1 cup of raspberres and 1/4 cup sugar syrup.(You can store the remaining syrup in a glass jar in the refrigerator.).
• Stir the remaining berries into the puree.
• Serve the peach halves, round side up, in a pool of raspberry sauce and garnish with whipped cream on the side, if you like.

POACHED PEACHES, SUMMER BERRIES AND RASPBERRY SAUCE

Steps:

• Plunge the peaches into boiling water; remove them and slip off their skins. Place the fruit in a saucepan large enough to hold them in one layer. Cover the peches with the lemon juice, white wine, sugar and cardamon, and add enough water to cover if necessary. Poach for 10 minutes, turning frequently. Drain, reserving the cooking liquid. Boil the liquid to one-half cup.
• Cook the raspberries in the peach cooking liquid for five minutes. Puree them in a food processor and strain through a sieve.
• Place a pool of raspberry sauce on each of four plates. Put the peach in the middle and arrange the raspberries, blueberries and blackberries. Garnish with a sprig of mint.

VANILLA-ROASTED PEACHES WITH RASPBERRIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• In a shallow baking dish combine butter, lemon juice, sugar and vanilla.
• Add peach halves, turn to coat in butter mixture and arrange cut side down in a single layer.
• Roast peaches until tender and the liquid in the baking dish turns syrupy, 15-25 minutes.
• Brush peaches with cooking liquid half-way through.
• Serve slightly warm with ice cream and raspberries. Drizzle with cooking liquid.

GRILLED PEACHES WITH FRESH RASPBERRY SAUCE

Steps:

• Puree 2 1/4 cups fresh raspberries along with 3 tablespoons water in food processor until puree is smooth. Strain raspberry puree through fine-mesh strainer, pressing on solids to release as much liquid as possible; discard solids in strainer. Stir in 3 tablespoons sugar and 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice until blended. DO AHEAD Fresh raspberry sauce can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and refrigerate.
• Prepare barbecue (medium heat). Melt butter with brown sugar in heavy small skillet over medium heat. Remove skillet from heat. Brush peach halves all over with melted butter mixture. Grill until tender, about 8 minutes, turning occasionally. Serve with sauce.

POACHED RASPBERRY PEARS

Steps:

• Mix all ingredients except pears in 10-inch skillet. Add pears.
• Heat to boiling; reduce heat to medium-low. Simmer uncovered about 30 minutes, spooning juice mixture over pears and turning every 10 minutes, until pears are tender. Serve warm or chilled.

SPICED PEACHES AND RASPBERRIES

Steps:

• Toss peaches with lemon juice in medium bowl. Add preserves, sugar, and cardamom and toss. Let stand 10 minutes to allow flavors to blend. (Can be made 4 hours ahead; cover and refrigerate.) Add raspberries and toss gently.