One more amazing recipe

Dark chocolate covered glazed apricots:

This is the best candy there is IMHB. Divine. These are really expensive to buy ready made and pretty easy to do yourself. Store bought ones are also rarely this good, even if I say so myself

Feel free to cut the recipe in half or double it.

ingredients:

About 2.5 cups dried apricots

3 cups white wine, half dry

3/4 cup agave nectar

1 package dark chocolate, chips or a bar of baking chocolate. About 4 Oz.

What to do:

1. Put the apricots and the wine in a pot and simmer on very low heat for about 25 min. The wine should reduce by 1/2. Stir occasionally

2. While the apricots are simmering prepare a large flat baking sheet and put some wax paper on it.

3. Also while the apricots are cooking break the chocolate in pieces into a microwave safe deep mug. Microwave in 30 second increments until all melted. Stir in between to make sure it doesn’t burn.

4. After 25 min and when the wine has reduced by half add the agave nectar and simmer for another 5-10 minutes. Stir often.

5. Turn off heat and take the apricots out of the syrup. There should be quite a bit of syrup left. Keep in in the pan, I’ll tell you what to do with it in a min.

6 Drain the apricots as much as possible and spread them on the baking sheet. Give them a few min to cool. Some of the apricots will break in the cooking. Put those aside and keep them for later.

7. Using tooth pics or a fork, dip each apricot halfway in the chocolate. If the chocolate cooled meanwhile, put it in the microwave again for 30 seconds or so. The chocolate needs to be melted. This is a messy job and they don’t come out perfect. Oh well. I guess that’s what we pay the chocolate companies that big bucks for… With some practice eventually they come out pretty. Put the chocolate dipped ones back on the baking sheet.

8. When all done put the baking sheet in the fridge for about 30 min. The chocolate should harden enough by then.

9. Keep in a container in the fridge separated by wax paper because they are sticky. Show off to everyone you know. They’ll be impressed

Enjoy!

What to do with the left over syrup:

Glazed apricot orange marmalade

You’ll have a bunch of syrup left (about a cup) and some broken apricots. Perfect for a marmalade:

1. Take an orange and peel it nicely. Keep the peels.

2. Scrape the white inside of the peels with a knife. That white stuff is bitter.

3. Chop the peels to as thin strips as possible. Also chop the orange wedges into small cubes.

4. Chop the leftover broken apricots into cubes as much as possible.

5. Throw the apricots, the orange cubes and peels back into the syrup and let simmer on very low heat until the syrup is mostly gone and you have nice thick jam. About 45 minutes. You can blend it or put it in the food processor if you don’t want it as chunky. I like it chunky.

Yum!!

Happy Passover

Keren