How to peel a pineapple

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 1 pineapple, you will need:

• 1 1 pineapple
• Total weight: 2,000 grams

Times:

Preparation
20 min.

Step by step recipe

• 1: You will need the following utensils:
  • A chopping board
  • A good knife
  Your pineapple should be very ripe, to check this, you should be able to pull out one of the central leaves easily.
• 2: Start with top: cut about 1 cm or ½ inch beneath the leaves.
• 3: Then the bottom, remove 1 cm or ½ inch here too.
• 4: Stand the pineapple up, and cut vertically in strips to remove all the skin.
• 5: Go over the outside again to cut off any remaining "eyes". Pineapple should now be completely yellow.
• 6: Cut pineapple into quarters vertically.
• 7: Lay each piece flat, cut out the hard fibrous core. Also remove any brown over-ripe parts.
• 8: Then cut quarters as required for your recipe, here in medium size pieces.
• 9: Finally, squeeze all the pieces of skin or trimmings of flesh in your hands to extract the juice that you can drink or use in a recipe or a cocktail.

Remarks

This method applies to a Victoria Pineapple (small, but incredably tasty, especially if they come from Reunion), but of course it's the same for other kinds of pineapple.

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