Recipe

Peach melba

  • 6 mins cooking
  • Serves 4
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Ingredients

Peach melba
  • 4 (600g) ripe medium peaches
  • 400 gram fresh or thawed frozen raspberries
  • 1 tablespoon icing sugar, sifted
  • vanilla ice-cream, to serve

Method

Peach melba
  • 1
    Fill a medium saucepan with water, bring to the boil. Add the peaches and simmer gently, uncovered, 5 minutes. Use a slotted spoon to transfer the peaches to a bowl of cold water. When peaches are cold, remove skins, halve, and discard stones.
  • 2
    Meanwhile, push half the raspberries through a fine sieve. Sweeten the purée with icing sugar to taste.
  • 3
    Serve the peach halves with raspberry purée, remaining raspberries and vanilla ice-cream, if you like.