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Sweet roast plums with five spice

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
A Whisper of Cardamom

By Eleanor Ford

Published 2024

  • About

Chinese five spice powder is a blend of contrasts: warm and sweet from anise and cassia, cool and complex from fennel and clove. The five in the name is not in nod to the number of spices, but rather the five principal flavour notes of Chinese cuisine that the mix combines. It also works beautifully with plums.

Ingredients

  • tablespoons light muscovado sugar
  • 2 tablespoons ground almonds
  • 40

Method

Heat the oven to 200°C/180°C fan (400°F).

Mix together the sugar, almonds, butter, zest, five spice and salt.

Choose an oven dish that can accommodate the plums snugly, and grease with a little butter. Lay out the plums cut-side up. Spoon a nub of the swe

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