
Poached apricots with rosewater
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook:
- Plus cooling
- Easy
- Serves 2
This low-fat, simple dessert combines tender fruit and fragrant syrup
- Freezable (Apricots can be frozen once cooled)
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Forgotten cookies
What's in a name? Pop these in the oven, forget about them overnight, and you'll have crumbly cookies in the morning
- 50g golden caster sugar
- 400g ripe apricothalved and stoned
- few drops rosewater
- Greek yogurtto serve
- handful pistachiosroughly chopped, to serve
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal161
- fat0g
- saturates0g
- carbs41g
- sugars41g
- fibre3g
- protein2g
- salt0.01glow
Method
step 1
Put the sugar into a medium pan with 150ml water. Heat gently until the sugar dissolves, then add the apricots and simmer for 15 mins until soft. Take off the heat, splash in the rosewater and leave to cool. Spoon into glasses to serve, topped with a few dollops of the yogurt and a scattering of nuts.
RECIPE TIPS
IF YOU WANT TO USE A SLOW COOKER...
Leave this to simmer in a slow cooker. Simply tip in the apricots, sprinkle over the sugar and splash over 100ml of water. Cover and cook on Low for 2 hours until the apricots are soft. Take off the heat, splash in the rosewater and cool. Serve spooned in glasses as above.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, September 2009
Comments, questions and tips (6)
Overall rating
choccie_123
Why have I not done this before. Yummy. I’ll try with star anise next time, as someone suggested. Also maybe a little less sugar.

AdrianLovesCooking
Absolutely delicious. I have to confess to a slight adaptation ; adding a single star anise half a cinnamon stick, and some lemon grass to the poaching liquor.
GFood2
I did a similar twist as did marijas I saw peaches and cooked those in a pan with sugar instead. It was gorge anyway, and then used natural yoghurt and instead of searching out pistachios, used dark chocolate. It was still delish, and healthy despite the few tweaks.
marijas
Made this twice so far. The first time I used nectarines and orange blossom water and it went down a treat. The second time I used peaches (couldn't find apricots either time) and rose water as I had managed to source it and it was so much better! The taste was more subtle and yet more magical. In…
scousesandwich
Really tasty! Ate it with some natural yogurt