Summer Berry Wine Compote

Ingredients:

1½ cups raspberries

1 cup dry white wine

1/2 cup honey

1½ cups blackberries


Preparation:

  • In a food processor mash 1/2 cup raspberries and 1 cup of wine. Add honey and process until smooth. 
  • Transfer to medium size saucepan and bring to boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 1-2 minutes. 
  • Strain mixture through sieve and cool. Add remaining raspberries and blackberries. Toss gently and refrigerate until cold.

NOTE: You could spoon and serve Summer Berry Wine Compote over ice cream, crepes, pudding, waffles, custard, Ricotta cheese cream or cheese cake. Garnish with lemon balm or mint.


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Did You Know?
Fruits, are wholesome, appetizing, attractive, and occupy a valuable place in our diet. In fact, it is their attractiveness rather than their great food value that accounts for the popularity of fruits among all people.

In addition to causing fruits to appeal to the esthetic sense, their attractiveness serves another important purpose. Nature made fruits attractive in color, odor, and flavor in order that birds might be allured to attack them for food and, by spreading the seeds, assist in their propagation.

It is sometimes difficult to distinguish between vegetables and fruits. For instance, the tomato is in reality a fruit, but it is commonly used as a vegetable, and rhubarb is more of a vegetable than a fruit, but it is always used as a fruit.