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Roast apricots goats cheese salad with pistachios

Servings:	Serves 2
Calories per serving:	355
Ready in:	35 minutes
Prep. time:	15 minutes
Cook time:	20 minutes
Difficulty:
Recipe author:	Chef
First published:	17th June 2017

Switching my broadsheet Telegraph for the 'tabloid' Times so I had a paper I could read on the beach, I spotted this recipe within. This is my slightly modified version. A nice meal for a hot summers evening that would also work as a starter or meze.

Ingredients

Printable 🖨 shopping 🛒 list & 👩‍🍳 method for this recipe

• 5 large ripe apricots
• Zest and juice of half a lemon
• 2 tbs of honey - Tip: Microwave set honey for 5 seconds to make it runny
• 10g of butter
• 20 pistachio nuts
• 100g goat's cheese
• 2 slices of orange

Mise en place

• As most supermarkets seem to sell fruit that is as hard as bullets, it might be an idea to buy your fruit ahead of time to allow them to ripen properly first.
• Preheat your oven to 180° C (350° F - gas 4), [fan oven 160° C & reduce cooking time by 10 mins per hour]

Method

1. Separate the apricots by cutting round the middle and twisting the two halves apart. Pick out the stones and discard. Remove any stubborn left-over bits with a sharp knife.
2. Wipe the base of a small roasting tray with butter paper or olive oil.
3. Sit the apricots in the tray so they are an array of cups.
4. fill each cup with a dot of butter, half a teaspoon of honey, a squeeze of lemon and a pinch of salt.
5. Roast for 15 minutes or until the fruit is gooey and runny.
6. After 15 minutes, add a teaspoon of goat's cheese to each apricot and roast for a further 5 minutes to soften the cheese.
7. Shell the pistachios, pop them in a clean tea-towel and smash them to crumbs with a rolling pin.

Serving suggestions

Serve the warm apricots on a bed of rocket, lightly dressed with olive oil.

Sprinkle with crushed pistachios and dress with orange slices.

Recipe source

• Lindsey Bareham, The Times newspaper, Thursday 15th June 2017

Variations

Try this with other seasonal fruits like nectarines or even a couple of peaches.

A few freshly picked, torn basil leaves complimented this well.

I wonder if a little roquefort blue in place of the goat's cheese might be nice too?

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