Spiced Nectarine Sauce
- Ready In:
- 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Yields:
-
2 cups
ingredients
- 4 ripe nectarines, pitted and cubed
- 1 inch piece fresh gingerroot, peeled, minced and then pulverized using a mortar and pestle
- 2 -3 tablespoons butter
- 1 -2 tablespoon brown sugar, to taste
- 1 - 1 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cinnamon, to taste
- 5 -10 whole green cardamom pods or 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom
directions
- If you'd rather, peel the nectarines; I like having the peel in there.
- Melt butter in small saucepan over medium high heat.
- Dissolve brown sugar in the melted butter, then add the cubed nectarines and the rest of the spices.
- When mixture starts to simmer, turn heat down to low.
- Simmer in order to achieve desired consistency and allow flavors to blend. You will want this to be chunky, with some textural variation--chunks of fruit in a thick, medium-brown sauce. This may take 5-10 minutes. Remove pods before serving (? I'm actually not sure if you can eat them).
- Serve warm with vanilla ice cream, or cool and refrigerate.
- My note: this was excellent with hot multigrain cereal! I cooked the cereal first and then added the sauce, about 1:1, stirred it in and warmed it up along with the cereal for a few minutes on low/simmer. Yummy!
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