Cherries in Riesling with goat’s cheese ice-cream

Name: Cherries in Riesling with goat’s cheese ice-cream
Yield: Serves 6-8
Ingredients: Wholemeal tuiles or Brittany sablés for serving; 7 teaspoons arrowroot mixed with 4 teaspoons water; 1 tablespoon grenadine; 1 vanilla pod, split in half; 100 g caster sugar; fresh lime juice if needed; 300 g ripe, strong-flavoured goat’s cheese (weight without rind); 200 g sugar; 1 kg ripe but firm, sweet cherries; 1 bottle (75 cl) Riesling

Preparation info

Serves
6-8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Richard Corrigan Cookbook

By Richard Corrigan

Published 1999

About

Use a goat’s cheese that has a soft, oozy texture, not one that is dry and crumbly. Make the ice-cream on the day of serving.

Ingredients

1 kg ripe but firm, sweet cherries
1 bottle (75 cl) Riesling

Dessert
Gluten-free
Vegetarian
Summer

Method

Stone the cherries, keeping them as whole as possible. Set the cherries aside in a bowl. Put the stones in a heavy polythene bag and set them on a wooden board. Hit with the base of a heavy pot to crush them coarsely. Pour the crushed stones into a saucepan and add the wine, sugar, vanilla pod and grenadine. Bring to the boil, stirring to dissolve the sugar. Remove from the heat, add the arrowr