Rhubarb compote approach heard on public radio (American)?

Recently (likely May 27, 2025), I heard a segment on public radio where a food-topics interviewee mentioned a way to use rhubarb in something like a compote approach. The audio caught my attention because of an uncommon set of ingredients being listed.

I know how to make a compote, but I cannot find this radio segment archived online at NPR. Maybe American Public Radio (APR) had it. But it was just a little part of a multi-recipe segment and seems therefore to be hard to dig up with searching online.

Can crowd-sourcing work to uncover what that was? :crossed_fingers:

What were the uncommon ingredients?

Was this it - perhaps a rebroadcast of older show? https://www.delilah.com/blog-detail/2022/5/30/rhubarb-compote

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Have you made it? It looks very appealing and my rhubarb is having a very good year.

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Ingredients? I recall only that there was something unexpectedly savory, aromatic and/or spiced about it.

That Delilah recipe looks highly eligible to be what I heard, and in any case intriguing on its own. I also had thought that my difficulty in searching the NPR site had to do with it being a rebroadcast rather than a recent segment. 'Tis the rhubarb season, after all, and time to rejuvinate, just like rhubarb.

Thanks!!!

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I’ve not made that, and since all available rhubarb here is destined to be desserts it is highly unlikely to get a trial run in my kitchen. Glad my search turned up something that OP says is along the lines of what he heard.

How about this? Was on Oregon Public Radio this mornth - Rhubarb-blood sorrel compote

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This is an older segment that is frequently rebroadcast this time of year, and has some intriguing recipes, including a compote,
which might match your description: NPR – Kitchen Window: Rhubarb Brings Spring To The Table.

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Could it have been a riff on rhubarb pickle?

I’m trying to organise myself to try this recipe.

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More savoury rhubarb recipes

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Not certainly the recipe I heard, but I’m glad to have it. Thanks! The cardamom here is in the ballpark of what caught my ear as unusual in the radio recipe.