Grilled Fruit

Name: Grilled Fruit
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 1 ripe pineapple; 1 tablespoon cane sugar; 1 medium-heat chile pepper, halved and seeded; 2 ripe mangoes, peeled and halved; Pinch of cinnamon; 2 tablespoons honey, plus more for serving; 2 ripe pears, peeled, quartered, and cored

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Hot Coals

By Jeroen Hazebroek and Leonard Elenbaas

Published 2015

About

It’s important to use ripe fruit when grilling. You can check for ripeness in pineapple by pulling at the inner leaves of the crown. If you can pull them out easily, the pineapple is ripe.

Ingredients

1 ripe pineapple
1 medium-heat chile pepper, halved and seeded
1 tablespoon cane sugar

Starter
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

Fire up the kamado with the cast-iron grid to 425°F (220°C) and create three hot spots. Make sure the grid is clean without any meat particles sticking to it.
Peel the pineapple and cut away all the inedible parts. Quarter it lengthwise and remove the cores of each quarter. Rub the pineapple pieces with the inside of the chile pepper. This will give a subtle spic