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Blackberry fruit salad

9/9/2013

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Blackberry Fruit Salad Recipe
Ohlala, blackberries everywhere! Beautiful sweet and juicy blackberries! While I was in France recently, I could see bushes full of blackberries as we drove past them and people filling their baskets with this delicious fruit. I told you last year about enjoying this activity of blackberry picking with my mother and younger brother when we were small children.

This year was different though, I did not go and get the blackberries in the bushes by myself. But instead, I enjoyed a great day cooking with them.
I was invited by my lovely blogging friend Rebekah to spend a day in Kilkenny with her and cook some delicious recipes. Rebekah is the American blogger behind Honeysuckle Life, a beautiful blog about modern vintage lifestyle, and moved to Ireland with her husband a year ago.
After picking me up at the Kilkenny train station, Rebekah took me to her lovely country house and we started cooking with a lot of blackberries, as it was the theme for our recipes. I had such a fantastic day being in a kitchen with a very different kind of scenery. And said kitchen was so much bigger than my little apartment one, I really enjoyed cooking in it! It was also really great working along with someone else as I am more used to have the kitchen to my own.

This month, we will both be sharing our recipes on our respective blogs. I start with two recipes I created for the occasion. One is a seasonal blackberry fruit salad that is lovely and refreshing after a warm autumnal meal. The other one is a savoury blackberry sauce that goes well with pork and red meats.
Blackberry Savoury Sauce Recipe
Blackberry Fruit Salad Recipe
Blackberry, Apple, Raspberry and Hazelnut Fruit Salad Recipe (Gluten Free, Dairy Free, Vegetarian, Vegan)

Ingredients (serves 4)

200g blackberries
125g raspberries
2 green apples (peeled and diced)
50g toasted hazelnuts (halved)
2 tbsp lemon juice

Put all the ingredients in a large bowl and toss together. Wait 10 minutes before serving.

This fruit salad is really lovely on its own but would also be delicious for breakfast with a bit of Greek yoghurt and muesli.
Backberry Savoury Sauce Recipe
Savoury Blackberry Sauce Recipe (Gluten Free)

Ingredients

2 small shallots
2 tbsp vegetable oil
100g blackberries
200ml chicken stock
3 tbsp cognac (or brandy)
40g of diced chilled butter
salt, pepper

1. Put the vegetable oil in a small saucepan over medium heat. When hot, add the shallots and stir with a wooden spoon for 3 to 4 minutes until softened. Add the blackberries and mash them delicately in the saucepan with the back of the spoon. Pour in the chicken stock, bring to the boil and reduce to a low heat. Cook for 25 minutes uncovered.

2. Pour in the cognac and cook for another 5 minutes. Transfer the sauce through a sieve in a bowl and put it back in the saucepan (discard the rest of the ingredients).
Put the pan back over a medium heat. Whisk in the chilled butter and season with salt and pepper (if you have used a chicken stock that is already well salted, only use pepper).
Pour the sauce in a serving dish.

This sauce is a lovely accompaniment to red meats such as beef, duck and venison and is also delicious with pork.

Bon appétit!
Rebekah's lovely recipes from our day cooking with blackberries are here:
Sugared Blackberries
Blackberry and Redcurrant Salad


6 Comments
la domestique link
9/9/2013 04:10:39

I'm going blackberry picking today and hopefully I'll return with a bucketful so I can make these lovely dishes! I really like blackberry sauce over roast duck.

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Yolène link
10/9/2013 01:34:57

Happy foraging Jess! I can imagine lots of blackberry cooking smells happening soon at your house, so lovely! And somehow, after reading your lovely comment, I find myself craving for roast duck, I must try to get some this week.

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Rebekah link
10/9/2013 12:24:36

It was so fun having you out to the house and creating together! Can't wait to meet up again.

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Yolène link
11/9/2013 04:56:22

It was indeed! I am looking forward to another lovely day of cooking together.

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Jenn
11/9/2013 08:04:17

So gorgeous...in the mood for foraging now - rain, rain go away!

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Yolène link
12/9/2013 07:51:21

Thank you Jenn! Yes, it's time for foraging blackberries alright!

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