Poached Plum Salad with Pecans

Name: Poached Plum Salad with Pecans
Yield: An Early Autumn Treat for 2–3
Ingredients: 50 g/1¾ oz/⅓ cup shelled pecan pieces (or walnuts); 150 ml/5 fl oz/⅔ cup water; 2–3 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil; ⅓ tsp ground black pepper; 80 g/3 oz mixed salad leaves; ½ tsp chilli (red pepper) flakes; 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar; salt; 1 red onion, sliced; ¼ cucumber, peeled and sliced into half-moon shapes; 150 g/5½ oz Roquefort cheese, crumbled; 3–4 allspice berries, lightly crushed; 300 ml/10 fl oz/1¼ cups dry cider; 2 cm/¾ in.knob fresh ginger, peeled and diced; 150 g/5½ oz/¾ cup sugar

Preparation info

An Early Autumn Treat for
2–3

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Salmagundi

By Sally Butcher

Published 2014

About

One of our customers is from Bulgaria and recounted this rather fun plum-related Bulgarian folk tale to us one day. I do feel that plum-related Bulgarian folk tales are probably best shared, so if you’re sitting comfortably...

Once upon a sugar plum, in old Plovdiv (which those who can pronounce it may know as Philippopolis), there lived a wily market farmer and his five sons. The farmer was anxious to find a wife for the eldest boy; but he wanted a girl as virtuous as she was beaut

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Vegetarian
Spicy
Gluten-free
Summer

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