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Charred Buttered Plums with Cheese

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Plums are summer’s all-stars. You should eat and cook with them only when they are peaking, plentiful, and widely available in many varieties.

Recipe information

  • Yield

    4 servings

Ingredients

3

tablespoons unsalted butter

6

plums, pitted, halved

8

ounces fresh goat cheese

Flaky sea salt

Freshly ground black pepper

Olive oil (for drizzling)

Preparation

  1. Step 1

    Heat a medium skillet, preferably cast iron, over medium-high. Add butter and swirl to coat skillet. Arrange plums, cut side down, in skillet and cook, shaking skillet occasionally, until cut sides are nicely charred, about 5 minutes. Place, cut side up, on a platter and let cool slightly.

    Step 2

    Crumble cheese around plums; season everything generously with salt and pepper. Drizzle with oil.

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  • Just made this for dessert, it was fantastic. Tart, sweet, caramelized, little bursts of salt from the flaky/finishing salt , so yummy. 10/10 would recommend.

    • ahowardmd

    • Kailua, HI

    • 6/14/2020

  • Delicious!

    • Adeline Moya

    • Paris

    • 10/27/2018