Drunken Spiced Apricots With Chocolate Coconut Sauce

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 2 cups dried apricots
• 1/4 cup cointreau liqueur
• 4 fresh oranges, juiced
• 1 cup boiling water
• 3 cardamom pods
• 1 star anise
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 2 cups coconut milk
• 100 g chocolate
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla essence

Recipe

• 1 apricots:.
• 2 combine all apricot ingredients in a saucepan and simmer on low heat for 30 minutes.
• 3 remove from heat and place in a heat proof bowl and let stand, covered for at least 1 hour.
• 4 sauce:.
• 5 chop chocolate into small pieces.
• 6 using a double boiler (or a ceramic or metal bowl over a pot of simmering water - don’t let the water touch the bottom of the bowl) heat the coconut milk.
• 7 as the coconut milk starts to get hot, add the chopped chocolate, stirring constantly until chocolate is melted.
• 8 add the vanilla essence and stir quickly to avoid the sauce separating.
• 9 to serve:.
• 10 remove the whole spices from the apricots and re heat if you wish.
• 11 place equal portions of the apricots into serving bowls and drizzle a little of the orange cointreau sauce over them.
• 12 pour the warm coconut chocolate sauce over the top.
• 13 can also be served with vanilla ice-cream.