Hot Curried Fruit

Name: Hot Curried Fruit
Cook time: P1H
Total time: P1H
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: pears; sugar; cinnamon sticks; cloves; lemons; oranges; winter melon; red grapes; lemon; curry powder; crystallized ginger (candied)

Submitted by DERN

YIELD

12 srevings

PREP

15 min

COOK

1 hrs

READY

1 hrs

Ingredients

EACH PEARS
ripe

3 ½

CUPS SUGAR

SMALL CINNAMON STICKS *

EACH CLOVES
whole *

EACH LEMONS
juice of

EACH ORANGES

EACH WINTER MELON *

BUNCH RED GRAPES
cut into small clusters *

EACH LEMON
sliced

TABLESPOON CURRY POWDER

CUP CRYSTALLIZED GINGER (CANDIED)
julienned *

Directions

Peel pears, leaving stems intact.

Place them in a large, nonaluminum pot with enough water to cover.

Add sugar, spices and lemon juice.

Cover pears with a round of wax paper cut to fit interior of pot.

Bring to a boil, reduce to simmer and cook until pears can be easily pierced with a knife.

Slice away skin and pith from oranges.

Remove pears to a serving bowl and add enough syrup to Place oranges in cooking liquid and simmer for 15 minutes or until tender. Peel and seed melon. Cut into long, 1 inch wide strips. Add melon strips to the poaching oranges and simmer for 5 minutes. Remove to serving bowl. Add grapes and lemon slices to poaching liquid and simmer for 3 minutes. Remove to bowl. Add curry powder to liquid and whisk to dissolve. Cook syrup until reduced by half. Strain through a double thickness of dampened cheesecloth. Drain away any juices that have collected in serving bowl and pour syrup over fruits. Serve fruit with a little of the crystallized ginger sprinkled over each portion.