Winter Fruit Salad in Wine

Name: Winter Fruit Salad in Wine (Compote de fruits d’hiver au vin)
Prep time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: For two people
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 8 dried prunes; 2 passe-crassana pears (from Italy) or 6 small red cooking pears; 2 passe-crassana pears (from Italy) or 6 small red cooking pears; 300 ml (½ bottle) full-bodied red wine (Côtes du Rhône or something similar); 75 g (2½ oz) caster sugar; 1 clove; ½ vanilla pod; 1 small stick cinnamon; 1 bayleaf; 12 walnuts (24 halves); 1 orange

Compote de fruits d’hiver au vin

Preparation info

For
two
people

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr

Appears in

Cuisine of the Sun

By Roger Vergé

Published 1979

About

Ingredients

2 passe-crassana pears (from Italy) or 6 small red cooking pears
8 dried prunes

Europe
France
Vegan
Mediterranean
Gluten-free
Winter

Method

Preparation

Peel the pears, leaving the stalks on. Cut away the hard flower-part at the bottom, but leave them whole. Put the prunes to soak in a bowl of tepid water for 10 minutes. Open the walnut shells with a knife, so that you can take out the halves without breaking them. Cut an orange into ½ cm (¼ inch) slices, throwing away the two ends of the fruit.