Exotic Fruit Sauce Food

EXOTIC FRUIT SALAD

Steps:

• Whisk sugar, lemon juice, vanilla, and Chinese 5-spice powder; adjust to taste, adding more or less ingredients. Add mangoes and raspberries and toss together.
• Just before serving arrange kiwis in a circle on outside edge of each of 4 dessert plates, arrange an inside circle of banana slices overlapping kiwis, leaving a space in center of dessert plate. Spoon macerated raspberries and mangoes in the middle; dust with confectioners' sugar and garnish with mint leaves.

EXOTIC FRUIT SALAD

Steps:

• Place the mandarin oranges, with their syrup, in a medium-size saucepan. Add the Champagne and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer until the mixture has reduced to about 1 cup. Remove from the heat and let cool.
• Place the cooled mixture in a blender, and process until smooth. Stir in the sour cream, honey, and poppy seeds.
• Toss the prepared fruit together in a large bowl, and pour the dressing over the fruit. Refrigerate for 1 hour. Decorate the fruit salad with flaked coconut or chopped nuts, and serve.

TROPICAL CITRUS SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat olive oil over medium heat.
• add garlic and shallots - cook for 30-40 seconds.
• Add lime juice, pineapple juice, mango , and parsley - cook down for about 5-7 minutes.
• In the last minute of cooking, add butter and jalapeno pepper and stir until butter is melted.
• Serve over grilled fish or chicken.
• Just a Note:I tried this recipe with cilantro instead of flatleaf parsley and found only minor differences. With the flatleaf parsley, I found that the sauce was mild and acted as a flavor enhancer to the fish (grouper). With the cilantro, I noticed it brought out a bright and robust flavor to the sauce and tasted quite nicely in contrast to the mild grouper. Either way, I found it very tasty!

SUGAR-GLAZED DUCK AND EXOTIC FRUIT

Steps:

• To prepare the duck, place the breasts in a shallow dish just large enough to hold them in a single layer. Sprinkle with 4 teaspoons of sugar. Pour 1/4 cup of soy sauce over the duck. Marinate for 30 minutes, turning the breasts once.
• Preheat the broiler. Line 2 baking sheets with aluminum foil. Arrange the pineapple in a single layer on 1 sheet and sprinkle with 3 tablespoons of sugar. Arrange the mango on the other sheet and sprinkle with 2 tablespoons of sugar. Place the pineapple under the broiler until it begins to brown, about 5 minutes. Turn the pineapple over and broil 1 more minute.
• Meanwhile, place the remaining 1/2 cup sugar in a shallow bowl. Remove the duck from the marinade and coat well on both sides with the sugar.
• When the pineapple is done, remove it from the oven and place the mango under the broiler until browned, about 3 minutes. Turn off the broiler and set the baking sheets with pineapple and mango in the oven to keep warm.
• Melt the butter in a large cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat. Add the duck breasts, lower the heat and cook until the sugar glaze turns a deep brown and the duck is cooked to medium rare, about 2 to 3 minutes per side, being very careful not to let the sugar burn.
• Remove the duck from the skillet and keep warm. Add 1/4 cup of soy sauce, the orange juice, vinegar and chicken broth to the skillet and simmer over medium heat for about 2 minutes, scraping the bottom of the skillet with a wooden spoon.
• Slice the duck on the diagonal into thin slices. Remove the fruit from the oven. Squeeze the lemon juice over the fruit and divide the pineapple among 4 plates. Cross the mango slices over the pineapple. Fan the duck slices beside the fruit and spoon the sauce over the duck. Serve immediately.

COCONUT CHICKEN WITH TROPICAL FRUIT SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350f degrees.
• Dry chicken breasts; pound chicken between two pieces of plastic wrap to an even thickness.
• Whisk together egg and milk in a bowl.
• Place fine coconut on a plate.
• Dip chicken breasts in the egg mixture, then coat with the fine coconut.
• Line a cookie sheet with foil and spray generously with vegetable spray, lay coated chicken pieces on it in one layer. Spray coated chicken pieces with vegetable spray. Bake in a 350f degree oven for 20 to 30 minutes, depending on thickness,until no longer pink. After 15 minutes, turn chicken pieces. If the coconut coat has not turned brown, place under broiler for 2 minutes. Remove to a platter and keep warm.
• Tropical fruit sauce:.
• Spray a non stick fry pan with vegetable spray, add oil and bring to medium heat; add mango, papaya and ginger, sprinkle with salt and pepper, saute for 6 to 8 minutes until softened; reduce heat.
• Meanwhile, add cornstarch, if using, and milk to sour cream, whisk until smooth; add to fruit in fry pan and stir to mix well, slowly bring to a simmer, and simmer for 2 or 3 minutes until slightly thickened. Spoon hot sauce over chicken on the platter, sprinkle toastaed shredded coconut over.
• Enjoy!