Grilled Fruit Salad With Cinnamon Cream

Submitted by Cathy17

"From Chatelaine Easy Grilling recipe book. When I saw this recipe, I had to make it. It did not disappoint! I never thought to grill fruit, but it gives a wonderfully unique flavor to the old fruit standby."

 

• Ready In: 25mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• Dip

• 1 cup regular sour cream or 1 cup light sour cream
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon liquid honey
• 1⁄2 - 1 teaspoon cinnamon or 1/4-1/2 teaspoon ground ginger (I used cinnamon)

• Fruit

• 1⁄2 pineapple, cored,cut in half and then into 1/2 inch thick pieces
• 1 mango, peeled,sliced away from pit in thick strips
• 2 -3 bananas, peeled
• 2 tablespoons butter, melted
• 1⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon or 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
• 2 cups strawberries, hulled (optional)

directions

1. To make dip, in a small bowl, stir sour cream with vanilla, honey and cinnamon (or ginger).
2. Taste, then add more cinnamon (or ginger) if needed.
3. You can make this ahead, if you do, cover and refrigerate.
4. To grill fruit, lightly oil grill and heat BBQ to medium/high.
5. BBQ pineapple and mango with lid closed, turning occasionally, until grill marks form, fruit is hot, 6- 8 minutes.
6. Bananas will cook quickly, so add for last 1 to 2 minutes of grilling.
7. Remove to cutting board as pieces are done.
8. Cut into small chunks and serve on a platter.
9. Add optional strawberries.
10. Serve with cinnamon cream for dipping or drizzle over fruit and have toothpicks on hand.
11. Can serve warm or at room temperature.

Reviews

[FleurDeLisGrrl]

This was VERY simple and quite yummy. Makes a nice spring/summer evening snack. I actually grilled the fruit on my George Forman which was still good, but I bet on a "real" grill it'd be AWESOME. The mango doesn't hold together all that well on the skewer, but is still yummy!