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Grilled peaches with amaretti
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Ingredients
For the grilled peaches with amaretti:
- Oil, to brush griddle
- 8 ripe peaches, cut in half and pitted
- 25g vanilla sugar, recipe follows
- 4 tbsps good quality dark rum
- 4 tbsps good quality Amaretto almond liqueur
- 8 amaretti biscuits, crumbled
- Creme fraiche or vanilla ice cream to serve, optional
For the vanilla sugar:
- Caster sugar
- 2 vanilla beans
Method
How to make Grilled peaches with amaretti
For the grilled peaches with amaretti:
1) Preheat the oven to 190C/Gas mark 5. Preheat a griddle to a medium-low heat. When hot, brush the griddle with a little oil to make sure the peaches don't stick. Place the peaches, cut side down, on the griddle and cook for a few minutes, until they're slightly charred.
2) Place the peaches in an oven-proof dish and sprinkle each half with a little vanilla sugar. Combine the rum and amaretto and drizzle 1/2 of it on the peaches. Bake the peaches for about 10 minutes, until they're very tender.
3) Serve hot, at room temperature, or cold with crumbled amaretti cookies on top or with the cookies on the side. I like to serve them with a dollop of creme fraiche or vanilla ice cream.
For the vanilla sugar:
1) Find a jar tall enough to hold 2 vanilla beans. Fill the bottle with sugar and cover tightly. Store on a pantry shelf. After about 3 months you will have a wonderful ingredient for cooking and baking.
2) Keep adding vanilla beans and sugar to the jar and you will have vanilla-flavoured sugar available for years.
