Warm fruit salad with maple cinnamon cream
 
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Serves: 4-6
Ingredients
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 180C Bake.
  2. Using a vegetable peeler, peel the skin from the tamarillo and slice them into ½ cm rounds. Alternatively, if the tamarillo are soft and difficult to peel, cut them in half and scoop out the flesh. Discard the skin.
  3. Slice the peach and nectarine in half and remove the stones. Cut into slices or cubes.
  4. Cut the cherries in half and remove the stones.
  5. Remove the skin from the pineapple and cut into slices a similar size to the peach and nectarine.
  6. Place all the fruit in an ovenproof casserole dish. Drizzle over the maple syrup and add the cinnamon stick and star anise. Scrape the seeds from the vanilla pod and add to the fruit.
  7. Pour over the rum or brandy if using. Stir gently to combine.
  8. Cover with foil and bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes until the fruit is just soft and warmed through.
  9. While the fruit is in the oven, pour the cream into a bowl. Drizzle over the maple syrup and sprinkle on the ground cinnamon. Whisk or beat until soft peaks form. Check the taste and stir in more syrup and ground cinnamon if desired.
  10. Remove the fruit salad from the oven. Pull out the cinnamon stick and star anise and discard. Stir the salad gently. Either serve directly to the table in the casserole dish or spoon into individual serving bowls, dividing any residual fruit syrup between the servings. Serve the cream on the side for your guests to use as they wish.
Notes
If you are unable to get a vanilla pod for this recipe you can use a half tsp of good quality vanilla bean paste instead. Don't use imitation vanilla essence or extract though as the flavour won't be quite right.
Recipe by The Fare Sage at https://www.thefaresage.com/warm-fruit-salad-with-maple-cinnamon-cream/