Next time you send out bbq invites consider grilled fruit as a dessert. Grilled fruit is fun, easy, and tastes delicious. It can be a healthy alternative to heavier desserts like cheese cake and cobbler but just as flavorful and satisfying. If you’ve never tried it before, you are going to love it. Grilling it allows the natural sugars to caramelize leaving you with tremendous flavor. We’ve put together some tips to help you get started.
- First, choose your fruit. Any kind of fruit can go on the grill, even watermelon!
- All fruits generally don’t take long to grill. Stone fruits like peaches and plums tend to take a little longer than more tropical fruits like pineapple.
- Slice up the fruit into halves, chunks, rings, or slices. Kebabs are a great way to grill up the fruit. Try and keep fruits with similar cook times on the same skewer to avoid over or under grilling.
- Soak the fruit in very cold water for 20 to 30 minutes before putting on the grill. For apples, pears, bananas or other fruits that brown easily, add a little lemon juice to the water.
- Make sure your grill is clean. You don’t want any remnants of meat getting on your delicious fruit.
- Brush or spray the grill with cooking oil to prevent the fruit from sticking. Use a light oil that doesn’t have a heavy flavor.
- Grill the fruit over medium heat.
- To increase the flavor of your fruit even more, consider adding in some spices to the soaking water, like cinnamon or nutmeg. Consider even marinating it in a mixture of rum, brown sugar and cinnamon to some vanilla yogurt. If marinating in alcohol, be cautions of grill flare ups.
Try these fantastic grilled fruit recipe ideas: Grilled Fruit With Bourbon Glaze, Grilled Bananas with Spiced Chai Syrup, and Grilled Fruit Kebabs
As if summer could get any sweeter. Happy grilling! Check out all of PurpleTrail’s BBQ tips and ideas to help you plan the perfect gathering. Be sure to also look out at our grilling refreshment recipes for great summer drink ideas.
