Savor the Season tips: Peaches
Selection: Look for fresh peaches featuring rich color and may still have a slight whitish "bloom" on their surface. indicating freshness. Avoid ones with excessive softness, or with surface cuts and bruises. Ripe fruits yield to gentle pressure and feature a sweet aroma.
Storage: Slightly hard, but mature fruits can be kept at room temperature until they ripen. The ripening process can be enhanced by placing in paper bag.
Nutrition: Wonderfully delicious peaches are low in calories, and contain no saturated fats. They are packed with numerous health promoting compounds, minerals, and vitamins: potassium, flouride and iron.
Kitchen tip: Never purchase peaches that were picked when they were still green and under ripened. Peaches do get softer and juicer as they mature, but never sweeter. Choose peaches that have no green undertones but rather a good pallet of colors – cream or yellow, with a nice blush of pink. To check for ripeness, press the seam of the peach with your thumb; if it gives slightly, it’s a perfect peach.
Check out the Peach and Tomato Salad with Goat Cheese and Crispy Bacon.
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