Roasted Pineapple on a Cedar Roasting Plank

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Cedar Planked Pineapple (or peach or pear...)

We are still trying out all the different combinations of fruit and woods but here is one of our favourite fruit recipes, very simple but quite delicious.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Most fruits can be steamed on a plank such as bananas, apples, pears, peaches, cherries, plums, nectarines, mango..... try making a steamed fruit salad with fresh mint or with cinnamon sticks or drizzled with honey or treacle.

Try adding more rum or kirsch to your fruit by putting some into the water soaking solution . If you are cooking with the kids then put some fruit juice into the water instead.

Cedar is the best wood as it has a lovely sweet spicy flavour but you can also use cherry which imparts a subtler fruity taste.

Recipe

1 pineapple, peeled, 3 tbsp palm or demerara sugar, shot of rum, chocolate toffee sauce or chocolate ice cream

Rub the rum into the pineapple followed by the sugar and place your pineapple on a :

Cedar Roasting Plank :  place your pineapple on the soaked plank into the oven at Gas Mark 4-5 for about 30 minutes, turning over once. 

Place on your table and slice your pineapple, serve with chocolate toffee sauce or ice cream.

 

 

Your plank only needs to be soaked for at least 4 hours because the cooking time is so short.

Cedar BBQ Plank : the same recipe can be repeated on a BBQ Plank but slice the pineapple before putting onto your plank.

Wood Paper : I love using Wood Paper for my steamed fruit salad because the presentation looks so fantastic.

Cut up the pineapple (or other fruit) into smaller chunks and lay onto your soaked Wood Paper and wrap. Tie up with some butcher's string and put into your oven for about 10 minutes or on the BBQ.

Open up your wood parcel at the table and smell the delicious aroma of all that steamed fruit and rum. Amazing. 

For more information please see www.theroastingplankcompany.co.uk