Peach Melba
"Delicious and gorgeous. Imagine 2 sweetened peach halves swimming in a puddle of raspberry sauce. Quick and easy, too; the perfect recipe. This also works well with nectarines and blackberries or any combination of those four. Cook time is chill time."
- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Serves:
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2
ingredients
- 1⁄2 cup sugar, plus
- 1 tablespoon sugar, divided
- 1 cup water
- 1⁄2 lemon, juice of
- 2 peaches, halved and pitted
- 1⁄2 cup raspberries
- vanilla ice cream
directions
- Bring 1 cup sugar and the water to a simmer and cook until sugar is dissolved; add lemon juice and peaches and simmer until peaches are tender, about 10 minutes (test with the tip of a knife); Drain peaches and let cool enough to handle; remove peach skins and chill peaches; press raspberries through a fine sieve and catch juice in a bowl; add the remaining 2 T sugar and stir to dissolve.
- To serve, ladle raspberry sauce into 2 shallow soup plates; place 2 peach halves and a small scoop of ice cream in each.
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Reviews
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Simple and tasty! I used fresh peaches from the Farmers Market along with some nice juicy raspberries. My husband looked around for more after he licked his bowl clean and was so disappointed I wasn't going to share mine. LOL! This is one recipe I'll be repeating all summer.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
sugarpea
Snohomish, WA
I’m a former interior designer and landscape designer. At the moment I get to enjoy being at home and working only when I want to. I like rollerblading, hiking, backpacking and trips to the ocean. I grew up on a farm in the Midwest and moved to the Northwest when I was thirty, over twenty years ago. I’m afraid they’ll have to bury me here in WA. This is God’s country and I’m never leaving.
I have a smallish collection of cookbooks, preferring to use the library and a copy machine. Among my favorites though, are: Recipes 1-2-3, by Rozanne Gold, a collection of recipes containing no more than 3 ingredients (excepting water, salt and pepper); A Treasury of Great Recipes, by Mary and Vincent Price, recipes collected from friends and chefs of great restaurants around the world; The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, by Nancy Harmon Jenkins, about a collection of cuisines I’m convinced are the healthiest in the world and The Low-Calorie Gourmet, by Pierre Franey.
Currently my passions are our dogs, the garden, cooking, the natural world and of course, Dh. I can now add Zaar to that list of passions (translate: addiction). We have three dogs, two rescued and one adopted. They are Sugarpea, a Golden Retriever, Chickpea, a Llasa Apso and Sweetpea, a Shih Tzu; small, medium and large. We’re quite a sight out on the trail. One of the things I am most fond of about living here is the ability to vegetable garden year ‘round.
