Compote of red berries with vanilla ice cream
By: Curtis Stone From: Dinner In a Box with Curtis Stone
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Compote of red berries with vanilla ice cream
- Prep time:
- 20 mins, plus cooling
- Cook time:
- 10 mins
- Serves:
- 4
A stunning dessert from Curtis Stone - colourful soft fruits in orange-flavoured caramel sauce, topped with vanilla ice cream
Ingredients
- 100g caster sugar
- zest and strained juice of 1 large Oranges
- 250g Strawberries
- 125g Blackberries
- 115g Blueberries
- 115g Raspberries
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 2 vanilla pods, split
- 100g Redcurrants
- icing sugar, for dusting
- vanilla ice cream, to serve
- sprigs Mint, to decorate
Method
1. Put the sugar in small heavy-based saucepan. Cook over medium heat until the sugar begins to melt. Stir very gently so that it colours evenly. When melted completely, add the orange zest and juice. Stir until dissolved.2. Add the blackberries and strawberries first then the rest of the fruit, cinnamon stick and vanilla pods. Simmer gently for a few minutes, then leave to cool.
3. Tip the red currants into a bowl and dust generously with icing sugar.
4. Spoon the compôte into individual serving bowls. Add a scoop of ice cream, a mint sprig and finally the red currants.
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