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a white baking dish on a grey teatowel filled with roasted red plums
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5 from 2 votes

Roasted Stone Fruit

The best way to use up a bounty of summer fruit is roasting, where the fruits intensify in flavor and become soft and sweet, ready to serve over ice cream, yoghurt or your morning oatmeal.
Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time20 minutes
Total Time30 minutes
Course: Breakfast, Dessert, Snack
Cuisine: American, Australian, English, French, Mediterranean
Keyword: roasted fruit, roasted stone fruit, stone fruit
Servings: 6
Calories: 171kcal

Ingredients

  • 3 lb plums just ripe, or use apricots, peaches or nectarines, washed, stoned and quartered
  • 1 vanilla bean split
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar 1/4 cup will be enough if your fruit is very sweet already

Instructions

  • Preheat your oven to 350˚F/180˚C, combi steam setting. If your oven has variable steam settings, use 100% steam. If not, don't worry! Just set to combi steam at the correct temperature and the oven will figure out the humidity for you.
  • Put all your fruit into a dish where the pieces can be packed in fairly snugly. If you have enough space, lay it in cut-side up. If you went a little overboard on your fruit quantity, like I often do, just tuck it all in standing on end.
  • Halve the vanilla bean and tuck it under the fruit. Sprinkle with sugar – in general, I find the plums need a little more, other fruits a little less. I prefer to err on the side of less sweet so rarely use the entire half cup. And I’ve done very sweet apricots with absolutely no sugar, which was just fine, although the lack of added sugar means they only last a couple of days in the fridge.
  • Put the dish, uncovered, in the oven and cook for around 20 minutes, by which time the fruit should be bubbling, softened, syrupy and just starting to brown at the edges. If it’s not soft enough for you, put it back in for a few more minutes.
  • Cool to room temperature in the baking dish, then transfer to the fridge for up to 4 days or the freezer for a couple of months.

Notes

  1. The quantities and times given here are subjective. Adjust them as you see fit – this amount of fruit will give you easily enough for 6 or 8 servings, maybe more. It freezes really well, so I like to make a lot and do that.
  2. You can cook your fruit just enough to soften without completely losing shape, or (as I’ve done in today’s photo) let it go a bit longer so it breaks down. There’s no right or wrong – I prefer my apricots, peaches and nectarines a little firmer, and my plums super soft, but it’s entirely up to you.

Nutrition

Calories: 171kcal | Carbohydrates: 43g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 1mg | Potassium: 356mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 39g | Vitamin A: 782IU | Vitamin C: 22mg | Calcium: 14mg | Iron: 1mg