Crunchy spiced plums
By Good Food
Spice up your plums with this simple pud recipe perfect with lashings of custard
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Prep:5 mins
Cook:15 mins
- Serves 4
- Easy
Nutrition per serving
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kcal 169
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fat 5g
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saturates 2g
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carbs 31g
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sugars 25g
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fibre 3g
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protein 2g
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salt 0.18g
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 2 whole star anise
- 8 large or 12 small plums, halved
- knob butter
- 4 Hob Nobs (biscuits)
- custard or vanilla ice cream, to serve
Tip
Prefer pie?Spice plum and apple tuck: Cut 2 large Bramley apples into large chunks and cook with the plums in a pie dish, sprinkling with a little more butter and sugar. Once the fruit is soft, unroll a pack of ready-to-use shortcrust pastry over the top and tuck the edges in. Cut a few slashes in the top, sprinkle with a little more sugar and bake for 20 mins until golden.
Method
Heat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Mix the sugar with 2 tbsp water in a baking dish, add the star anise, then pop in the plums, cut-side down. They should fit quite snugly. Dot with the butter. Roast for about 5 mins until the plums are starting to soften on the bottom, then turn them over. Roast for another 5 mins or until tender – this will depend on how ripe your fruit is.
Roughly crush the Hobnobs, then spoon a little on top of each plum half. Return to the oven for a few mins more until the biscuit topping takes on a dark gold colour. Serve the plums and their scented, syrupy juices with custard or ice cream.
