Name: Baked plums with vanilla marscapone
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 500 gram plums, halved around the natural crease, stone removed; 65 gram light muscovado sugar; 1 orange, zested and juiced; 1 vanilla bean; 1/3 cup water; 1/2 cup cream; 1/2 cup mascarpone; 1 to 3 tablespoons sugar, to taste

Baked plums with vanilla marscapone

These baked plums are delicious for breakfast – try serving with Greek yoghurt or as a topping for your morning museli. They are also great spooned onto hot waffles or pancakes

Serves 4

Prep

10M

Cook

40M

Total

50M

This recipe first appeared in Food magazine.

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Ingredients

500 gram plums, halved around the natural crease, stone removed

65 gram light muscovado sugar

1 orange, zested and juiced

1 vanilla bean

1/3 cup water

1/2 cup cream

1/2 cup mascarpone

1 to 3 tablespoons sugar, to taste

Method

1.Preheat oven to 190°C. Place plums in an ovenproof dish with sugar, zest, juice, vanilla bean and water. Bake, uncovered, stirring occasionally, for 35-40 minutes or until the plums are tender.

2.Combine the cream and mascarpone. Remove vanilla bean from plum syrup and split it in half lengthways. Use a teaspoon to scrape the seeds from one half of the bean, then add them to the mascarpone. Mix, adding sugar until sweetened to your taste.

3.Serve the plums and syrup warm or cold, with a dollop of the vanilla mascarpone cream.