Tropical Fruit Splits with Rum Sauce and Chile-Macadamia Brittle

Name: Tropical Fruit Splits with Rum Sauce and Chile-Macadamia Brittle
Prep time: 1 d 1 h
Cook time: 1 d 1 h
Total time: 1 d 1 h
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 12 smalls ripe finger bananas or 6 small regular bananas; 8 servings Chile-macadamia brittle; 1 Tbsp chili powder; 8 servings Garnish: toasted fresh coconut shavings or toasted sweetened flaked coconut; 118 milliliters dark rum; 1 firm-ripe mango, peeled; 1 papaya, peeled, halved, and seeded; 1 fresh pineapple, peeled and cored; 473 milliliters sugar; 1 Tbsp unsalted butter; 1 teaspoon vanilla; 3 pints premium vanilla ice cream; 59 milliliters boiling-hot water

One portion of this dish contains roughly 9g of protein, 25g of fat, and a total of 858 calories. This gluten free recipe serves 8. Head to the store and pick up pineapple, chile-macadamia brittle, chili powder, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 25 hours.

Instructions

Stir together rum, boiling-hot water, and vanilla. Cook sugar in a 3-quart heavy saucepan over moderately low heat, stirring slowly with a fork, until melted and pale golden. Cook caramel without stirring, swirling pan, until deep golden.

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Caramel

Vanilla

Sugar

Water

Rum

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Frying Pan

Remove pan from heat and carefully stir in rum mixture (caramel will harden and steam vigorously). (Pan is removed from the flame to prevent alcohol from igniting. If it does ignite, simply allow flames to burn out on their own.) Simmer sauce until smooth.

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Rum

Caramel

Sauce

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Remove pan from heat and when bubbling subsides stir in butter. Cool sauce to room temperature.

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Butter

Sauce

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Prepare grill for cooking.Standing mango upright, cut 1 lengthwise slice from each broad side of mango (be careful because peeled mango is slippery) and discard pit.

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Mango

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Cut each papaya half lengthwise into thirds.

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Papaya

Standing pineapple upright, cut lengthwise into 1/2-inch-thick slices.

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Pineapple

Halve bananas lengthwise.

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Banana

Sprinkle all fruit lightly on 1 side with chili powder.

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Chili Powder

Fruit

Grill fruit on a well-oiled rack set 5 to 6 inches over glowing coals until grill marks form, about 1 minute. Turn fruit over and grill 1 minute more.

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Fruit

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Transfer to a cutting board and slice into decorative pieces.

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