Roasted Spicy Pineapple With Passion Fruit Glaze Recipes

Steps:

• Peel pineapple; cut into six wedges. Cut wedges lengthwise to remove core; cut each widthwise into four pieces. Pour butter into a 2-qt. baking dish; top with pineapple. Combine the brown sugar, honey, pie spice and extract; spoon over pineapple., Bake, uncovered, at 400° for 35-40 minutes or until golden brown. Spoon cooking juices over the top. Serve warm with sorbet.

Steps:

• In a mixing bowl with a paddle, mix the sugar, salt, puree and yolks until smooth. Add the milk then fold in the flour. Beat the egg whites with the sugar until stiff peaks form. Fold in whites and fill ramekins 3/4 full. Bake at 350 degrees in a hotel pan filled half way with boiling water for 30 minutes. The pudding cakes will rise then fall when cooled. Store in refrigerator for at least 3 hours or overnight.
• PLATING Chill large soup plates. Unmold cakes in the center of the plate and ladle in soup (pineapple juice). Garnish with coconut and passion fruit seeds.
• Wine Suggestion: Moscato D'Asti, Cascinetta Vietti, 1998

Steps:

• Bring water and sugar to a boil in a small saucepan, stirring until sugar dissolves. Add passion fruit pulp, stirring well, and cook 1 minute. Remove from heat; cool 15 minutes.
• Strain passion fruit mixture through a sieve into a large bowl; discard seeds. Add lime juice, soy sauce, red pepper, and salt, stirring well. Set 1/2 cup passion fruit mixture aside. Add shrimp to remaining passion fruit mixture, and toss well to coat. Cover and refrigerate 15 minutes.
• Prepare grill.
• Thread 4 shrimp on each of 8 (10-inch) skewers. Place skewers on grill rack coated with cooking spray. Grill 2 minutes on each side or until done, basting with reserved 1/2 cup passion fruit mixture. Serve with lime wedges.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees, with rack in upper third. Using a chef's knife, slice off top and bottom ends of pineapple. Following the fruit's natural shape and working from top to bottom, slice off skin in strips; cut away any "eyes." Quarter lengthwise; remove tough core. Cut each quarter into 4 pieces lengthwise.
• Place butter in an 8-inch square (2-quart) baking dish, and melt in oven, 6 minutes.
• Arrange pineapple in the dish. In a small bowl, stir together brown sugar, honey, pie spice, and rum.
• Spoon sugar mixture over pineapple. Bake until tender and bubbly, about 1 hour. Serve warm or at room temperature with sorbet, if desired.