Poached Peaches In Low Sugar Vanilla Lemon Syrup

Summer is the most popular season for losing weight. And summer is the best season for a whole variety of fruits available everywhere around you. What a coincidence! Losing weight in summers is easier with all the great fruits around, making snack choices simpler and healthier. Peaches, nectarines, plums, grapes are naturally sweet and can replace added sugar in your diet, helping lose few extra pounds.  Apart from snacks, fruits make healthier desserts to satisfy your sweet tooth without giving that guilty feeling.

Poaching fruits for desserts is now my favorite method. Especially Peaches, as they are tender and poach quickly. Traditional poaching requires to make a poaching syrup with 2 parts water and 1 part sugar. To stay away from that much sugar, I tried poaching with 2 part water and 0.5 part sugar, but then took little more ripe peaches. Result, perfect!! 

Low Sugar Poaching Method
2 cup water
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp lemon juice
few drops of good quality vanilla essence
3 peaches, halved and seed removed

• Prepare the syrup with water, sugar, vanilla and lemon on medium heat until sugar dissolves.
• Add cut peaches to the pan with the cut side down first.
• Simmer on medium heat, 10 min each side.

TIP: Because we are using less sugar than traditional, pick more ripe peaches. Still not too ripe that they loose the texture to become mushy in the syrup. So spend some extra time in the fruit section to pick the right kind.

• 10 min on each side, when done, remove carefully in a bowl.
• Add the extra syrup in the bowl and let it refrigerate until cold.
• When cold, the skin will become wrinkly and will be easy to remove...if you want to.

Serve alone or with some vanilla frozen yogurt and drizzle with tempered dark chocolate.

Its Divine!

Enjoy Summers!