Clementine and pistachio compote with cardamom

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4-6

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Richard Corrigan Cookbook

By Richard Corrigan

Published 1999

  • About

Serve this with something chocolatey, such as the sorbet, the tuiles, or a chocolate cake or brownie.

Ingredients

  • 700 g clementines
  • 6 cardamom pods
  • 170 g sugar

Method

Using a citrus zester, take fine strips of zest from one of the clementines. Blanch the zest in boiling water for 1 minute, then drain well and set aside. Peel all the clementines, removing the filaments, then separate into segments. Set aside.

Warm the cardamom pods in a small dry pan just until you can smell their delicious spicy aroma. Tip them on to a cutting board and crack open th