Dried Fruit Compôte Made With Rooibos Tea

~ Tandy

Dried fruit compôte was traditionally a breakfast dish and to this day, many friends add this to their morning meal. It can also be used as an accompaniment to meat or served as a dessert with custard.

Dried Fruit Compôte
Dried Fruit Compôte
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So, let’s carry on with my gremlin. For some reason if I try to edit a post using my WordPress App on my iPad the recipe plugin fails. This irritates me no end as I loathe the unprofessional look when this happens. I pay for this plugin and the thought of changing over to another one irks me. So, I find myself stuck using a plugin that breaks my blog. The other issue I had most recently was that Jetpack stopped supporting the mobile theme of the blog theme I was using. This happened shortly before we left for overseas and I did not have time to resolve the issue. I merely disabled the mobile theme function and pushed the problem out of my mind. As the saying goes, out of sight, out of mind and that is what happened. I completely forgot that I had to fix the issue.

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It was only when I went onto my iPhone to look on my blog for something that I realized there was a problem. I did not like how my blog looked on my mobile phone and so I set about updating my theme. This took a lot of hard work and effort on my behalf. The theme I now have did not have the exact look I wanted. This meant writing CSS code which I know nothing about. I am still working on tweaking a few things, but I am happy now with what I have. While concentrating my efforts on the appearance issues I did not want to make complicated recipes. This one for dried fruit compôte was super simple to make. I have used the fruit to top pancakes and I will be topping some whisky oats with them as well.

Dried Fruit Compôte

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Dried Fruit Compôte

You can easily bulk up this recipe to make sure you always have some in your fridge
Recipe Category: Breakfast
All Rights Reserved: Adapted from Cape Winelands Cuisine page 27

Ingredients

  • 100 g fructose
  • 500 mls boiling water
  • 60 mls clemengold juice *
  • Zest of 1 lemon
  • Juice of half a lemon
  • 1 rooibos teabag **
  • 2 star anise
  • Half a cinnamon quill
  • 1 whole clove
  • 2 cardamom pods lightly crushed
  • 200 g mixed dried fruit

Method

  • Place the fructose into a saucepan and cover with the water
  • Stir until dissolved and then add the juice, zest, teabag and spices
  • Bring to a boil over a medium to high temperature and leave to boil for 5 minutes
  • Remove from the heat, add the dried fruit and set aside to cool
  • Cover with cling film and leave overnight to infuse
  • Remove the teabag and at this stage you can decant the fruit and syrup into a container or reheat to use straight away
  • Refrigerate to use as needed for up to two weeks

Notes

* you can use any sweet citrus juice
** or any herbal tea you have to hand

Disclosure: This recipe has been published with permission and forms part of a review. This post is in line with my blogging policy.

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I am passionate about using regional, seasonable and sustainable produce when I cook. I live in Gordons Bay with my husband and dogs. We visit new places locally and overseas as often as we can to experience the food of the area. Follow along on our adventures!

15 thoughts on “Dried Fruit Compôte Made With Rooibos Tea”

  1. What a frustrating problem Tandy! Glad that you got it sorted. This compote reminds me of fantastic hotel breakfasts 😀

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  3. This compote looks wonderful Tandy! I think I’ll add the custard =) Also, ugh, technical blog issues are the worst. I’m always thankful when you or one of my email subscribers alerts me to an issue. Many times as a blogger, I’m not even aware. I like you’re attitude though….out of sight…out of mind!

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  4. Yum, I bet this would be delicious on everything! I hate when things go wrong with my blog, though I’m SUPER lucky and my husband is a computer programmer (but I also hate waiting for him to have time to help me!).

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  5. I am thinking of getting my blog designed by someone, Tandy, so that they can help me sort out all my issues. I share your frustration.

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