Super Bowl Week: Try grilled pineapple for dessert

by Shayna Glick, Posted Jan 30th 2008 @ 2:02PM

Grilled pineapple with ginger cream and cherries.

I know it's difficult to find a really tasty and easy dessert that's also good for you. It's so much easier to go with something prepared or that's known to be crowd pleaser. Unfortunately, those dishes are usually high in calories and fat/sugar. Here's something else you can try.

While you have the grill going anyway (if you are planning on grilling out), why not grill up some pineapple slices? If you're not going grill out for your Super Bowl party, you can always broil the slices. Dress the fruit up with some kind of tasty, low cal cream and you've got a great super bowl dessert. There's a great idea for this offering from the folks over at EatBetterAmerica. They have a recipe for a delicious sounding ginger cream that would pair fabulously with the pineapple.

I know that grilling vegetables and fruit has grown in popularity lately. I think this should be added to the repertoire for most people, especially at big gorge-fests like a super bowl party. It's simple and it tastes as good as it is good for you (well, it's way better than cupcakes, for example).

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Filed Under: Light Food, Vegetarian/Vegan, Super Bowl XLII, Ingredients
Tags: dessert, fruit, grilled pineapple, GrilledPineapple, light food, super bowl, SuperBowl, vegan, vegetarian

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1-30-2008 @2:46PM Julie said... I love grilled pineapple, I just posted about another fruit that is delicious served hot;"Broiled Grapefruit". The broiled grapefruit is healthy, sweet and delicious and can be served for breakfast, dessert or even as an appetizer. Here's the link to the recipe:
http://noshtalgia.blogspot.com/2008/01/heres-something-i-havent-had-in-long.html
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1-30-2008 @6:50PM vaca said... I made something similar a couple of weeks ago but instead of grilled, the pineapple was seared in a bit of butter and since it was a bit on the sour side, each 3/4"x3/4" cube (cut after searing) was topped with a dark chocolate chip.. it was much to our surprise a great combination something about the sweet, yet acid taste of the pineapple went really great with the bitter-sweetness of the chocolate and gave a nice rounded mouth-flavor (something we should thrive for when cooking :))

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2-02-2008 @6:39AM CJR said... Here is one of my favorite grilled fruit recipes...

4 1 inch-thick slices of pineapple
Juice of 2 lemons
2 teaspoons of honey
Freshly ground pepper

1. Make crisscross slashes with a knife on each slice of pineapple.
2. Broil until the pinapple turns to a nice caramel color.
3. In a small saucepan, boil the lemon juice and honey for 2-3 minutes. Let cool, add the pepper to taste.
4. Drizzle the liquid over the pineapple slices and serve immediately with a scoop of verbena ice cream.

Enjoy!
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