Apple and Walnut Marmalade

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⏱ 30 mins 🍽 Makes about 300ml 🌶 british ✅ Easy 🏷 Side dish

This British preserve is a straightforward and adaptable recipe. Dessert apples are cooked with butter, sugar, lemon and a bay leaf until soft and syrupy, then finished with chopped walnuts. The optional addition of brandy adds a lovely depth. It yields approximately 300ml and is excellent served warm alongside scones or as part of a buffet spread.

Apple and Walnut Marmalade

Ingredients

  • 450g dessert apple
  • 50g butter
  • 85g light muscovado sugar
  • 1small lemon zest, juice and squeezed out halves
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 1 tbsp brandy (optional)
  • 100g walnut roughly chopped

Method

  1. Cut the apples into quarters, remove the cores and slice each quarter in half. There is no need to peel them. Melt the butter in a large frying pan, then add the apple pieces, sugar, lemon zest, lemon juice, the squeezed lemon halves and the bay leaf. Gently stir to mix, cover the pan and cook for about 10 mins until the apples have softened.
  2. Take off the lid and increase the heat. Let the mixture cook without a cover for a further 5 mins, until much of the liquid has reduced and the consistency is syrupy. Discard the lemon halves and bay leaf. Mix in the brandy if you are using it and allow to cool a little. Finally, fold in the chopped walnuts and serve while still warm.

Nutrition (per serving)

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Recipe details

Skill levelEasy
CategorySide dish
Cuisinebritish