Muscat-Grilled Pineapple with Sea Salt

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4 to 6

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Planet Barbecue

By Steven Raichlen

Published 2010

  • About

Pineapple hails from the New World, where it much impressed Christopher Columbus. This simple dessert comes from the opposite side of the globe, from a Melbourne, Australia, grill man named John Ryan (who learned his way around a grill in Kansas City). You start by marinating the pineapple in a sweet dessert wine. The unexpected touch is the coarse crystals of sea salt sprinkled on the grilled fruit at the end, which seem to heighten the pineapple’s sweetness. (Candy makers in France have u