List of recipes using Victoria pineapple: 4 recipes

Confit Victoria pineapple with honey and spices

In this fairly straightforward recipe pineapple wedges are poached gently in a honey syrup flavoured with vanilla and star anise. This transforms the pineapple into flavoursome morsels that melt in the mouth.

European glass

A little dessert that's rather long to make, but which will always impress your guests. Layered in a glass: a jellied red fruit coulis, a layer of pineapple charlotte cream, a layer of kiwi coulis, topped with a peeled clementine segment. It's "european" because it resembles the italian flag, and in another version with apricot instead raspberries, the irish flag (a country so dear to me).

Fruit salad

To make a good fruit salad, there are three important points:

1. Choose fruits that go well together (avoid putting soft pears with crunchy apples for example).
2. Remove absolutely all skins and seeds.
3. Bring it all together with a good home made sugar syrup added to the fruit juices.

Here is a recipe which does all of that.

Victoria pineapple and lime tarts

This recipe for dainty tarts has sweetcrust pastry (preferably with coconut) cases, filled with sautéed Victoria pineapple and topped with a lime crémeux.