Caramelized Pineapple
Caramelized Pineapple — a fruit recipe, 5 ingredients.
contains dairycontains alcohol
Ingredients
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Metric
- 2 cups diced pineapple
- ½ cup dark brown sugar, divided
- ½ cup heavy cream
- 3 tbsp dark rum
- 1 vanilla bean, split and scraped
Make it lactose-friendly
- ½ cup heavy cream → lactose-free heavy cream or full-fat coconut cream
Steps
- Combine vanilla bean and liquid ingredients except rum and ¼ cup brown sugar.
- Heat over medium heat until sugar is dissolved and has thickened slightly, 15–30 minutes.
- Remove vanilla pod and let the sugar mixture sit at room temperature for 30 minutes.
- Dip pineapple into sugar mixture then dredge in remaining sugar, adding more as needed.
- Place pineapple on a greased baking sheet and place under broiler, shaking constantly until well browned.
- Remove pineapple; keep warm.
- Place baking sheet on two burners and heat over high heat. Add rum and ignite. Scrape browned bits off of pan and boil rum until reduced by half.
- Add rum to remaining sugar mixture and stir. Serve pineapple with remaining sugar mixture on the side.
Source
Wikibooks Cookbook — adapted under CC BY-SA 3.0