Slices of sizzling, grilled pineapple with a mint and citrus sugar.
Make the mint sugar: pull 20 mint leaves from their stems and put them within the bowl of a meals processor with 50g of caster sugar. Course of to a pale inexperienced sugar. (It's also possible to do that with a pestle and mortar or the tip of a rolling ache in a mixing bowl.) Finely grate the zest of an orange then stir it into the mint and orange sugar.
Get a ridged griddle pan good and sizzling. Reduce the topknot of leaves from a ripe pineapple and discard it, then slice the pineapple in half lengthways. Reduce every half in half once more after which reduce it into wedges to present 16 brief items.
Place the items of pineapple on the griddle and depart for about 8 minutes till frivolously colored on the underside, (examine them often) then flip with kitchen tongs and cook dinner the opposite facet. The fruit must be candy and juicy with darkish brown stripes on the reduce sides.
Serve the pineapple slices with the mint and orange sugar, sprinkling the sugar over them whereas the fruit is sizzling, so it melts right into a scrumptious puddle across the fruit. Sufficient for 4-6
Scatter the herb sugar over the fruit as quickly as you may. The sugar will soften and soften over the pineapple. The candy citrussy-mint juices are price a teaspoon.
So simple as a candy deal with may be, it’s price taking slightly care together with your pineapple. Examine the fruit is ripe by giving it a cautious squeeze – it must be gently giving. The fruit ought to emerge from the griddle frivolously scorched – the smokiness is great with the candy juice.
A lemon sorbet or vanilla ice-cream is beautiful with the new pineapple, although the fruit is nice by itself.
You may roast your pineapple, too. Pile the ready fruit right into a baking dish and sprinkle with a few of the sugar (protecting some again for the desk). Roast at 200C/gasoline mark 6 for about 25 minutes, sometimes basting with the sugar.
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