- 1/3 cup pecan halves
- 2 1/2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 large egg yolk
- 2 firm-ripe nectarines
- Garnish: 4 pecan halves
- Accompaniment: superpremium vanilla ice cream
- Preheat oven to 425°F.
- In a small food processor pulse pecans until finely ground. Add 2 tablespoons sugar and yolk and pulse until combined. Halve and pit nectarines and arrange, cut sides up, on a small baking sheet. Divide pecan mixture among nectarine halves, mounding it in center, and garnish each mound with a pecan half. Sprinkle nectarines with remaining 1/2 tablespoon sugar.
- Bake stuffed nectarines in middle of oven until pecan mixture is golden, about 10 minutes.
- Serve nectarines with ice cream.