Wine Macerated Winter Fruit

By jjadin

Ingredients

• Accompaniments:
• 1 lemon
• 3 cups water
• 1 1/2 cups dry red wine
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 1/2 large firm-ripe pineapple
• 1 1/4 pounds mixed dried fruit such as prunes, apricots, figs, and cranberries
• mascarpone cheese or crème fraîche and orange biscotti

Details

Servings 6
Cooking time 45mins

Preparation

Step 1

Remove zest from lemon with a vegetable peeler and squeeze juice from lemon.

In a saucepan bring water to a boil with zest, lemon juice, wine, sugar, and cinnamon stick, stirring until sugar is dissolved. Simmer mixture 15 minutes.
While mixture is simmering, peel and core pineapple and cut into bite-size pieces. Halve figs if using. Pour hot syrup through a sieve into a bowl. Stir pineapple and dried fruit into syrup and cool. Chill fruit, covered, at least 8 hours and up to 2 days.

Serve fruit with mascarpone or crème fraîche and biscotti.