Nectarine Butter Amongst Lemongrass Together With Ginger (Slow Cooker)

Ingredients:

6-8 lb nectarines, pitted too coarsely chopped
zest of two limes
two cups lite chocolate-brown sugar
1 2-inch knob ginger, peeled
two 3-inch pieces lemongrass, cutting into 1/4 inch chunks
1 1/2 tablespoons white peppercorns
1/4 loving cup (bottled) lemon juice


Ingredients:

Place the nectarines, zest, too carbohydrate inward a 4-quart tiresome cooker, stir. Note: yous tin fill upwards the insert all the agency to the top, it volition fix downwardly quickly!

Place the ginger, lemongrass, too peppercorns into a large tea ball too house inward the tiresome cooker.

Turn the tiresome cooker on depression too fix overnight  (8-10 hrs)  or until the mixture has reduced yesteryear nearly half, amongst the lid slightly askew to permit for approximately evaporation to occur. H5N1 chopstick tin assistance maintain the lid from closing if necessary.

Puree the mixture amongst an immersion or touchstone blender. Return the mixture to the tiresome cooker too maintain to cook, amongst the lid slightly askew, every bit needed to obtain fruit butter consistency, almost an hour.

Stir inward the lemon juice.

Prep your jars too lids.

Pour the butter inward the jars, leaving 1/4 inch headspace. Process inward a boiling H2O bathroom for 10 minutes.


Yield: almost half dozen 8-oz jars

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My thoughts:

Another twelvemonth every bit canbassader for the Washington State Fruit Commission has come upwards to an end! This twelvemonth I was sent a whole instance of nectarines! In previous years I've been sent plums too peaches which convey been amazing but I'll last honest. nectarines convey ever been my favorite summertime fruit. The fuzz on peaches makes my hands itchy thus it's tricky to peel them myself too I ever terminate upwards needed assistance making anything. No consequence amongst nectarines! The pare is fuzz-free too thus thin, yous don't fifty-fifty demand to peel them earlier canning unless yous desire to.

Apple butter is the most pop fruit butter out there, maybe followed yesteryear pumpkin butter but I similar rock fruit butter the best. It actually concentrates the flavors of the fruit. Apples are available nearly year-round (although of course, they are ameliorate when inward flavour during the fall) but most rock fruit is exclusively available during the summer, making it to a greater extent than attractive to can. There is aught ameliorate than getting a sense of savour of nectarines during the darkest purpose of winter.

For this butter, I used the classic combination of floral lemongrass too spicy ginger too tossed inward approximately white peppercorn for only a hint of heat. They perfectly brought out the close tropical sweetness of the nectarine.

Making it inward the tiresome cooker actually makes it a breeze to make. You tin only simmer it on the stove but it requires a lot of attending or it real easily scorches. No risk of that inward the tiresome cooker too the exclusively existent hands-on fourth dimension is cutting the nectarine too thus briefly boiling the jars.