Name: Fresh fruit steeped in red wine (Fruits au vin rouge de graves)
Yield: For four people
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 8 fresh mint leaves; A variety of fresh fruit: pears, peaches, grapes, oranges, cherries, strawberries, raspberries, melon, redcurrants, etc., depending on what is in season; 15 cl pint) water sugar substitute equivalent to tablespoons sugar; 30 cl (a good ½ pint) red Graves or other red Bordeaux wine; 1 vanilla pod

Preparation info

For
four
people

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cuisine Minceur

By Michel Guérard

Published 1986

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Ingredients

Main ingredients

A variety of fresh fruit: pears, peaches, grapes, oranges, cherries, strawberries, raspberries, melon, redcurrants, etc., depending on what is in season

Method

Put the wine in the saucepan and bring it to the boil; reduce it by half (to evaporate as much alcohol as possible). Add the water, sugar substitute and split vanilla pod, bring briefly to the boil, then cool and chill.
Peel or skin the tree-fruits such as pears, peaches, and oranges, and the melons. Cut them into little crescents. Leave the soft fruits whole,