Valentine's Recipes > Pineapple Fruit Salad

How to make pineapple fruit salad:
A fruit salad made with exotic fruits and rum. Serving it in the pineapple shell makes this an unusual and interesting dessert for two people to share.





Ingredients

1 large well shaped, nicely coloured pineapple
tin of stoned lychees
1 melon of choice
2 kiwi fruits
small punnet of physalis
tin of stoned red cherries
a few grapes
a few raspberries
2-3 tablespoons white rum
icing/confectioner's sugar
clotted cream to serve
(see measure conversions for more information)

Method

- Cut a lid-sized piece from the top of the pineapple.
- Scoop out pineapple flesh from main body of the pineapple.
- Reserve all of pineapple shell.
- Make a fruit salad by chopping the pineapple, slicing skinned kiwi fruit and making melon balls with a special scoop (available in kitchenware departments).
- Wash grapes and halve and deseed if necessary, drain any tinned fruit.
- Combine all fruit and sweeten to taste with icing sugar.
- Stir in white rum.
- Taste for sweetness and strength of rum!
- Pile back into pineapple shell and chill thoroughly.
- Serve with pineapple lid replaced and with stiffly whipped double cream.