Roasted Summer Fruit

roasted summer fruit with rosemary and cream recipe with step by step pictures

This very simple recipe uses wonderful summer fruit and turns it into a lush and flavorful treat.

To prepare it, you can use nectarines, plums, peaches, or apricots.

The fruit is roasted with sugar and butter.

Yum, right?

And the whole thing even gets infused with an amazing scent and flavor that rosemary definitely gives.

Pure elegance!

If you want to amaze your guests, or if you simply want to amaze yourself, just go on and make it.

 

roasted summer fruit with rosemary and cream recipe with step by step pictures, ingredients

Here’s what we need.

 

roasted summer fruit with rosemary and cream recipe with step by step pictures, nectarines, dark plums, and yellow plums

To make my version of this recipe, I used nectarines, dark plums, and yellow plums.

 

roasted summer fruit with rosemary and cream recipe with step by step pictures, preheat the oven to 400 F - 200 C, prick holes into the skin of the nectarines, dark plums, and yellow plums, that will help prevent the skin from peeling off the fruit

1. To begin, preheat the oven to 400 °F (200 °C).

 

2. The next thing you want to do is to prick holes into the skin. That will help prevent the skin from peeling off the fruit.

 

roasted summer fruit with rosemary and cream recipe with step by step pictures, halve the fruit

3. Halve the fruit.

 

roasted summer fruit with rosemary and cream recipe with step by step pictures, remove the pit and then cut each half in half again

4. Remove the pit and then cut each half in half again.

 

roasted summer fruit with rosemary and cream recipe with step by step pictures, scatter all your fruit in a roasting pan

5. Scatter all your fruit in a roasting pan.

 

roasted summer fruit with rosemary and cream recipe with step by step pictures, sprinkle fruit with sugar, you can use more sugar if your fruit is slightly under-ripe, cube the butter and distribute it over the fruit, add the rosemary sprigs

6. Sprinkle with sugar.

You can use more sugar if your fruit is slightly under-ripe.

 

7. Cube the butter and distribute it over the fruit.

 

8. Add the rosemary.

 

roasted summer fruit with rosemary and cream recipe with step by step pictures, roast at 400 F - 200 C for about 15-20 minutes

9. And roast at 400 °F (200 °C) for about 15-20 minutes…

 

roasted summer fruit with rosemary and cream recipe with step by step pictures, roast until for tender

… or until fork tender.

 

roasted summer fruit with rosemary and cream recipe with step by step pictures, serve your roasted fruit warm over vanilla ice cream or sweetened cream cheese

10. Serve your roasted fruit warm over vanilla ice cream, or – as I did – over a wonderful cream cheese mixture.

To prepare the cream cheese mixture, simply combine about 1 cup (250 grams) low fat cream cheese with about 4-5 tbsp powdered sugar and about 1/2 tsp vanilla extract.

 

roasted summer fruit with rosemary and cream recipe with step by step pictures, fruit juices

And be sure to use all those luscious juices that you can find on the bottom of the roasting pan.

Enjoy, dear friends!

I am sure you will like this.

Love,
Petra

(This wonderful recipe was adapted from marthastewart.com. It serves 3-4 people).

 

5 thoughts on “Roasted Summer Fruit

  1. 1
    Joy says:

    Beautiful photos and yummy sounding recipe! This is one I will have to try! I might try it with some yogurt! Bravo, Petra!

  2. 2

    This is another great way to enjoy summer. BBQ fruits, so healthy.

  3. 3

    mmmmhhhh I’m in love with peaches and your pictures. So simple yet completely new to me with the rosemary! Best thing: I have everything on hand, even the creamcheese that I would prefer with this recipe as well! Heating me oven up right now.

    XOXO
    Tobias

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