Red Wine-Macerated Winter FruitGourmet Studios
This recipe can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.
Recipe information
Yield
Serves 6
Ingredients
1 lemon
3 cups water
1 1/2 cups dry red wine
2 tablespoons sugar
1 cinnamon stick
1/2 large firm-ripe pineapple
1 1/4 pounds mixed dried fruit such as prunes, apricots, figs, and cranberries
Accompaniments:
mascarpone cheese or crème fraîche
Preparation
Step 1
Remove zest from lemon with a vegetable peeler and squeeze juice from lemon. In a saucepan bring water to a boil with zest, lemon juice, wine, sugar, and cinnamon stick, stirring until sugar is dissolved. Simmer mixture 15 minutes.
Step 2
While mixture is simmering, peel and core pineapple and cut into bite-size pieces. Halve figs if using. Pour hot syrup through a sieve into a bowl. Stir pineapple and dried fruit into syrup and cool. Chill fruit, covered, at least 8 hours and up to 2 days.
Step 3
Serve fruit with mascarpone or crème fraîche and biscotti.
