Pan-Grilled Apricots With Honey-Orange Lavender Syrup

This is simply a riff connected a crockery served astatine Nopi that was truthful popular, the London restaurant's co-owner Yotam Ottolenghi included it successful the "Nopi" cookbook. Here, the chromatic effect is rapidly seared, past cooked down until somewhat caramelized.

It tin spell savory oregon sweet; service alongside robust grilled oregon roasted meats oregon poultry dishes. Or make a elemental but memorable dessert by dividing the effect among idiosyncratic dessert plates oregon bowls and topping each serving with a scoop of vanilla crystal cream.

Buy lone lavender designed for cooking purposes; it is disposable astatine respective stores successful the Washington area, including La Cuisine successful Alexandria; Balducci's and Williams-Sonoma successful Bethesda; David's Natural Market successful Columbia, Gambrills and Forest Hills; Penzeys Spices successful Falls Church and Rockville; and country Spice & Tea Exchange shops. Some retailers merchantability dried culinary lavender prepackaged; others merchantability successful bulk, and you tin bargain what you need.

The syrup substance needs to infuse for astatine slightest 1 hr and up to 4 hours.

From cookbook writer Nancy Baggett.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 6, utilizing apricots, olive lipid and 1/3 cupful syrup)

• Calories

  110

• Fat

  3 g

• Saturated Fat

  2 g

• Carbohydrates

  21 g

• Sodium

  45 mg

• Cholesterol

  5 mg

• Protein

  1 g

• Fiber

  1 g

• Sugar

  19 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From cookbook writer Nancy Baggett.

Tested by Nancy Baggett.