How to Slice a Peach
Learn how to slice a peach for all of your favorite summer recipes, from salads and salsas to dessert! Similar to an avocado, slice around the the pit, twist in half, and remove the seed. Slice and dice to use fresh peaches as a snack or in a recipe.
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Servings: 1
INGREDIENTS
- 1 ripe peach
INSTRUCTIONS
- With your non-dominant hand, hold the whole peach with the stem end facing up. Insert the blade of your sharp paring knife until it reaches the pit. The blade of your knife should run vertically with the peach stem.1 ripe peach
- Keeping the blade inserted and touching the pit the entire time, rotate the peach to slice around it until you've reached where you started.
- Hold both halves of the peach in each hand and twist the peach halves in opposite directions. The pit should easily come out of one-half of the peach if it's ripe enough.
- Place each peach half flat-side-down on the cutting board. Slice peaches into wedges of your desired thickness. If you need diced peaches, turn them perpendicular to the knife and cut them into chunks.
Notes
Type of Peaches: Most grocery stores carry freestone peaches because the pit is easier to remove. This is what this tutorial calls for. The other kind of peaches are clingstone peaches. It is harder to remove the pit of a Clingstone peach and they are often used in the canning process.
- ch quicker than peeling each peach one by one.
How to Ripen a Peach:
3-4 day method: If your fruit isn’t quite ripe enough when you get them home, allow them to ripen at room temperature on your counter for a few days.
Quick method: Place the peaches in a paper bag. Enclosing them traps the ethylene gas they omit which triggers the ripening process. Add a banana or apple to the bag as well to boost the ethylene levels.
Once fully ripe, transfer your fresh peaches to the refrigerator for up to 5 days before proceeding with these steps for how to cut a peach.
Cool temperatures (like in your refrigerator) help slow the ripening or aging process.
How to Store Peaches:
If you need to store cut up peaches, you can do so in an airtight container for up to five days. The airtight container helps to prevent the peaches from developing brown spots or bruises.
A favorite recipe of mine using peaches is this Gluten-free peach cobbler or fresh peach mango salsa.Nutrition
Serving: 1peach | Calories: 63kcal | Carbohydrates: 15g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 0.4g | Saturated Fat: 0.03g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.1g | Sodium: 20mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 13g | Vitamin A: 489IU | Vitamin C: 6mg | Calcium: 6mg | Iron: 1mg
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