Spiced Pineapple

Name: Spiced Pineapple
Ingredients: 40 ml mount gay (or other caribbean) dark rum; 600 g fresh pineapple flesh, cut into 5 mm dice; 60 g mild honey (i use organic ligurian honey from kangaroo island); 40 g soft brown sugar; 2 star anise; 1 vanilla bean, split

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Dessert Divas

By Christine Manfield

Published 2014

About

This pineapple concoction is so versatile: add it to a cheesecake, serve it with the coconut yoghurt sorbet on page 13 or a tropical-flavoured gelato, or make a soft pavlova roulade and mix the pineapple into the whipped cream for the filling.

Ingredients

600 g fresh pineapple flesh, cut into 5 mm dice
40 g soft brown sugar
60 <

Dessert
Vegetarian
Gluten-free
Spring

Method

Place the pineapple, brown sugar, honey, vanilla bean, star anise and rum in a heavy-based frying pan, then cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, for 10 minutes or until caramelised. Drain the pineapple in a fine-mesh sieve set over a bowl to reserve the syrup, then set both aside to cool completely.