Scarlett WSimple Fruit Soup with Grand Marnier
August 12th 2008 09:10
Simple Fruit Soup with Grand Marnier
Selecting Fruits for Fruit Salad
The exact composition of your fruit salad is completely at the mercy of the season and of your local market. Never try to include a particular type of fruit just because you must have that fruit; if it’s January, it’s likely that you won’t find salad-worthy peaches, no matter how much you want to include them. Instead, respond to what you see when you’re shopping.
Here are the major colour groups, you can try to select at least one item from each group.
Red: strawberries (thin slices the long way); raspberries (whole); watermelon (thin triangles); red cherries (pitted and cut in half).
Purple-Blue: purple grapes (seeded and cut in half from pole to pole); plums (crescent slices, skin on); blueberries (whole).
Green: green grapes (seeded and cut in half from pole to pole); kiwis (peeled and sliced into thin rounds).
Orange-Yellow: peaches (crescent slices with red tinge from pit area, skin off); nectarines (same, but maybe with skin on); melons (tiny balls); bananas (thin slices from small bananas).
Yellow-White: apples (thin crescent slices, skin on); pears (thin slices, skin off); star fruit (thin, star-shaped slices); Mt. Rainier cherries (pitted and cut in half); pineapples (little triangles).
About Grand Marnier
Grand Marnier is a liqueur created in 1880 by Alexandre Marnier-Lapostolle. It is a kind of triple sec, made from a blend of true cognacs and distilled essence of orange. Grand Marnier is 40% alcohol (80 proof). It is produced in several varieties, most of which can be consumed "neat" as a digestif or can be used in mixed drinks.
INGREDIENTS
Serves 6
8 tablespoons sugar
10 tablespoons lemon juice
½ cup Grand Marnier
6 cups assorted sliced fruit
For garnish
fresh mint leaves
1. Place the sugar, lemon juice, and Grand Marnier in a mixing bowl.
2. Whisk until well blended. Let sit for 15 minutes.
3. Divide the fruit salad among 6 wide, shallow soup bowl.
4. Ladle the Grand Marnier mixture over the fruit.
5. Serve immediately, garnished with the mint leaves.
**From “David Rosengarten TASTE” ** and ““Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia”**
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