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Fragrant maple pineapple with coconut ice cream

Name: Fragrant maple pineapple with coconut ice cream
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Chinese recipes
Ingredients: For the maple pineapple; 1 small pineapple, peeled, cored and sliced into 1cm rounds, then cut into fan-shaped thirds; Pinch ground cinnamon; 3 tbsp good-quality Canadian maple syrup; ½ lemongrass stick, finely grated; To serve; 8 ginger biscuits; 1 large pink grapefruit or pink pomelo, cut into segments; 250g-300g coconut ice cream (we like https://www.ocado.com/webshop/product/The-Coconut-Collaborative-Coconut--Vanilla-Snowconut-Frozen-Yoghurt/286337011The Coconut Collaborative Coconut & Vanilla Snowconut frozen yogurt, from Ocado); Edible gold leaf to garnish (available from large supermarkets); Handful edible flowers (optional)

By: Ching He Huang

Published: 3 Apr 19
Updated: 18 Mar 24

Fragrant maple pineapple with coconut ice cream

Ching-He Huang’s quick and easy Chinese-inspired dessert recipe, made with pineapple and ginger biscuits, is ready in just 15 minutes.

Ching says: This quick and easy dessert will help bring good fortune (as well as sighs of happiness) to your Chinese New Year celebrations. Pineapple and pink grapefruit (or pomelo) are symbols of wealth and prosperity, and a sign of many offspring. Top it off with gold to bring in extra fortune. I’ve added edible flowers, too, as a nod to the Spring Festival (another name for Chinese New Year).

If you’re making a Chinese feast, try Ching’s wok-fried scallops, pork wontons, garlic and spinach longevity noodles and red-cooked cod.

Easy
February 2019

Test kitchen approved

Serves 4
Hands-on time 15 min

Ching-He Huang’s quick and easy Chinese-inspired dessert recipe, made with pineapple and ginger biscuits, is ready in just 15 minutes.

If you’re making a Chinese feast, try Ching’s wok-fried scallops, pork wontons, garlic and spinach longevity noodles and red-cooked cod.

Nutrition: per serving

Calories: 314kcals
Fat: 8.5g (5.9g saturated)
Protein: 2.7g
Carbohydrates: 54.8g (40.1g sugars)
Fibre: 3.7g
Salt: 0.9g

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Ingredients

For the maple pineapple

1 small pineapple, peeled, cored and sliced into 1cm rounds, then cut into fan-shaped thirds
Pinch ground cinnamon
3 tbsp good-quality Canadian maple syrup
½ lemongrass stick, finely grated

To serve

8 ginger biscuits
1 large pink grapefruit or pink pomelo, cut into segments
250g-300g coconut ice cream (we like The Coconut Collaborative Coconut & Vanilla Snowconut frozen yogurt, from Ocado)
Edible gold leaf to garnish (available from large supermarkets)
Handful edible flowers (optional)

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Method

Put the ginger biscuits in a food processor and whizz to make crumbs (or put in a food bag and bash with a rolling pin).
Set a wok over a medium heat. When hot, add the pineapple pieces, cinnamon and maple syrup, then cook, tossing, for 2-3 minutes
until caramelised and tender.
Add the lemongrass at the end and keep warm over a very low heat.
Divide the ginger biscuit crumb equally among four bowls, then arrange the pineapple and grapefruit or pomelo slices on top. Add a scoop of ice cream to each, then garnish with the gold leaf and edible flowers, if using.