Grappa-Soused Summer Fruit
- Total Time
- 10 minutes
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Ingredients
Yield:4 servings
- ¼cup grappa or other brandy
- ¼cup sugar
- Zest of ½ lemon, in strips
- 1tablespoon lemon juice
- 10mint leaves, torn in half
- ¼ to ½teaspoon fresh coarsely ground black pepper
- 2cups strawberries, hulled and cut in half if large
- 1cup raspberries
- 4large figs, cut into quarte
Preparation
- Step 1
Mix grappa with sugar in a large nonreactive bowl until sugar dissolves. Add lemon zest, lemon juice, mint and pepper.
- Step 2
Add fruit; toss, and let sit 2 hours at room temperature. Chill at least 1 hour before serving. For more intense grappa flavor in fruit, macerate overnight in refrigerator.
- Step 3
Serve on its own or with vanilla ice cream and butter cookies.
Tip
- Blueberries, blackberries, halved grapes and sliced nectarines, peaches or apricots also work well.
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Beth Unkefer
A good Grappa and blueberries are a natural combination. In Switzerland, wild alpine blueberries called mirtilli are often offered with Grappa after dinner.
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