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Spiced Fruit Compote

Recipe information

  • Yield

    8 Servings

Ingredients

1

750-ml botle Vin due Glacier wine or Essencia (orange Muscat wine)

2

/3 cup sugar

1

/2 cup water

1

cinnamon stick, broken in half

5

whole cloves

2

8-ounce firm but ripe pears, peeled, halved, cored, each half cut into 4 wedges

18

dried Calimyrna figs, quartered

3

/4 cup dried apricots, halved

8

dried pear halves, each cut into 3 wedges

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Preparation

  1. Stir first 5 ingredients in large saucepan over medium heat until sugar dissolves. Add remaining ingredients; simmer until fruit is tender, about 15 minutes. Using slotted spoon, transfer fruit to bowl. Boil syrup in pan until reduced to 1/2 cup, about 7 minutes. Pour over fruit. Cool. Cover; chill until cold, about 3 hours. DO AHEAD Can be made 3 days ahead. Keep chilled.