Watercress with Smoked Almond Goat Cheese Scoops & Grapes in Red Wine Syrup

Name: Watercress with Smoked Almond Goat Cheese Scoops & Grapes in Red Wine Syrup
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: ½ cup plus 2 tbsp (125 g) turbinado or Demerara sugar; ½ of a 750-ml bottle red wine; 3 star anise; ½ cup plus 2 tbsp (125 g) turbinado or Demerara sugar; 5 oz (150 g) seedless red grapes; 8 cardamom pods; salt and freshly ground black pepper; salt and freshly ground black pepper; ⅓ cup (50 g) smoked almonds; 7 oz (200 g) soft goat cheese; 1 bunch fresh watercress, stems removed

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Home Made Winter

By Yvette van Boven

Published 2012

About

An awfully simple recipe that looks very flashy. Instead of the grapes you could use fresh cranberries or quartered fresh figs.

If you can’t find smoked almonds, you can use regular almonds.

Ingredients

½ of a 750-ml bottle red wine
½ cup plus 2

Starter
Gluten-free
Vegetarian
Winter

Method

Heat the wine in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat. Add the sugar and stir to dissolve, then add the anise and cardamom and bring to a boil. Boil the syrup for about 25 minutes, until it’s slightly thicker. Reduce the heat to low and add the grapes. Warm the grapes in the syrup for about 7 minutes.

Remove the pan from the heat and let the syrup cool. Taste and add salt and pepper