Poached Apricots With Kaymak Recipe (2024)

Ingredients

Yield:6 servings

• ½pound large dried Turkish apricots
• ¼cup sugar
• 3cardamom pods, crushed and seeded
• 1teaspoon fresh lemon juice
• 1cup kaymak, very thick yogurt or mascarpone (see note)
• 3tablespoons finely chopped peeled unsalted pistachios

Preparation

1. Step

   1

   Place apricots in 2 cups water, and soak overnight.

2. Step

   2

   Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Pour soaking liquid into 1-quart ovenproof saucepan. Add sugar, cardamon seeds and lemon juice, and bring to boil. Add apricots. Moisten and crumple a small sheet of parchment paper, and cover apricots. Cover saucepan, and bake in oven for 1½ hours. Allow apricots to cool in syrup, and then refrigerate until well chilled.

3. Step

   3

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   Drain apricots, reserving syrup. Split each, and fill with kaymak, yogurt or mascarpone. Arrange in shallow serving dish, spoon some syrup over apricots, scatter with pistachios and serve.

Tip

• To make 1 cup kaymak, bring 2 cups heavy cream to boil in 3-quart saucepan. Lower heat to steady simmer. With large mixing spoon, pick up a spoonful of cream, lifting it up about a foot, and pour it back. Continue for about 20 minutes, until cream has thickened like custard and you can see bottom of pan as you draw spoon through cream. Transfer to a dish, and refrigerate.

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