French
Compote (Stewed Fruit Dessert)
Compote (Stewed Fruit Dessert) is French home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the fresh side. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 4 apples, peeled, cored, and diced
- 1/4 cup water
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 1 cinnamon stick
How to cook it
- Peel, core, and dice the apples into small even pieces so they cook quickly.
- Put the apples in a saucepan with the water, sugar, lemon juice, and the cinnamon stick if using.
- Cover and cook over medium heat for about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the fruit is completely soft.
- Remove the cinnamon stick and mash the fruit lightly with a fork, leaving it a little chunky, or blend it smooth if you prefer.
- Let it cool slightly and serve warm or chilled, one of the most common everyday desserts on a French table.
Serve it with
A French dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Compote (Stewed Fruit Dessert), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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The cooked vegetable
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Compote (Stewed Fruit Dessert) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish |
|---|---|
| Peanuts | No |
| Tree nuts | No |
| Dairy | No |
| Gluten | No |
| Shellfish | No |
| Eggs | No |
| Soy | No |
| Fish | No |
| Sesame | No |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Light
- Protein
- Low
- Food groups it covers
- Fruit
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Compote (Stewed Fruit Dessert) takes about 15 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
Watch someone make it
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More to cook
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From the same kitchens
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Does the same job on the plate
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Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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