Grilled Summer Fruit
Place the fruit on skewers and let your kids sprinkle on the sugar. When you grill the skewers the sugar caramelizes, giving them a nice crunch; but you’ll know it’s still a very healthy dessert that is mostly fruit. You may use apricots and peaches in place of any of the suggested fruits if you like.
Recipe information
Yield
6 servings
Ingredients
Nonstick spray
3 firm but ripe nectarines, halved, pitted
3 firm but ripe purple or black plums, halved, pitted
3 firm but ripe red plums, halved, pitted
3 tablespoons sugar
Special equipment: 6 metal skewers or thick wooden skewers soaked in water 30 minutes
Preparation
Step 1
Spray the grill rack with nonstick spray and preheat the grill to medium-high. Thread 1 piece of each fruit onto each of 6 skewers so that the cut sides line up and lie flat. Sprinkle the sugar over the cut sides of the fruit. Let stand until the sugar dissolves, about 10 minutes.
Step 2
Place the fruit skewers on the grill cut side down. Grill the fruit until it is heated through and caramelized, turning once, about 5 minutes.
Reprinted with permission from Giada's Kitchen: New Italian Favorites by Giada De Laurentiis. Copyright © 2008 by Giada De Laurentiis. Published by Crown Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved.
Giada De Laurentiis is the star of Food Network's Everyday Italian and Behind the Bash. She attended the Cordon Bleu in Paris, and then worked in a variety of Los Angeles restaurants, including Wolfgang Puck's Spago, before starting her own catering and private-chef company, GDL Foods. The granddaughter of movie producer Dino De Laurentiis, Giada was born in Rome and grew up in Los Angeles, where she now lives.
