In the pre-New Year bustle it is very easy to spin around making salads and completely forget about the dessert, and this is an equally important component of the festive table. One of the options for winter sweetness is prunes with walnuts in sour cream. For some, this dish is already familiar and loved for a long time, and many do not even have a clue about such a tasty dish.
There are many recipes for dessert, sometimes even with the addition of condensed milk, and someone else is refined and adds honey or caramel syrup. But many people fell in love with the classic preparation of this delicacy, because without a lot of people during the Soviet era many couldn’t do any New Year. And the sour cream was part of the popular recipe of this dish. Although a creative approach to cooking treats will never be superfluous, the main points of the recipe still need to be followed, and then you can change the ingredients or proportions at your discretion.
Recipe for prunes with walnuts in sour cream
Ingredients:
- 500 grams of prunes( it is better to take with dry and with a stone, because the percentage of its naturalness is higher);
- 250 grams of walnuts;
- 300 grams of sour cream( you can take more or less, depending on preferences);
- 3 tablespoons of cane sugar;
- mint leaves for decoration.
Preparation:
- Soak prunes in hot water for half an hour.
- Gently pull out the bones. It is advisable to leave a not very large hole, so that in the further preparation the prunes remain whole.
- Now, in order for prunes stuffed with walnuts not only to be tasty, but also to look good, you need to be very careful about placing large pieces of walnut in the middle of this fruit. Here it is important to preserve at least some kind of fruit shape for aesthetics.
- Then comes the preparation of a delicate cream. For prunes with walnuts in sour cream, it will need cane sugar, as it will give a caramel flavor, a new tint will appear at the dish, but you can get along with the usual white. Mix the sour cream with cane sugar using a mixer or set at low speed blender. It should get an airy and tasty cream. Put in the fridge for a quarter of an hour to thicken and impart a texture to the slightly melted ice cream, which can also be used in this recipe. But it is in sour cream, prunes with walnuts, much like the taste of childhood and the pre-Christmas fuss.
- Now it remains to choose a large and beautiful plate for treats. Then spread out the prunes in a circle dishes. Get the already cooled sour cream with sugar and pour the first layer of dessert. This cream acts as a gentle layer between layers of prunes. So you need to put the whole dish.
- Add mint leaves for decoration and delicate aroma for a fresh treat. You can also rub the bitter chocolate or sprinkle with cinnamon, it all depends on taste preferences.
A little secret in cooking: do not be afraid to experiment and add new ingredients at your fingertips. Dessert is so versatile that it will be perfectly combined with almost everything( sweet, of course).The fact that the delicacy will be honey or a little more sugar, its taste will benefit.
A dessert of prunes with walnuts in sour cream is ready! 
He will speak the whole treat at a festive family table and will surely evoke the warmest childhood memories of the atmosphere of the New Year! And even in summer, the delicacy will not lose its relevance and will be just as delicious as homemade ice cream, which will become a favorite dessert for the whole family!
