Fruits in caramel and chocolate

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Any hostess strives to ensure that the prepared dessert is not only tasty, but also beautiful. One of the most versatile options for decorating desserts is traditionally considered to be caramel and chocolate products. To make it yourself, if you are not a professional confectioner, caramel or chocolate figures are very difficult. However, you can carry out caramelization and chocolateization of fruits and berries. This article presents two of the most simple and popular fruit recipes in caramel and chocolate.

Universal Caramel Dessert

One of the most common caramelization recipes is fruits and berries generously covered with hot caramel.

Essential Products

• 100-150g sugar;
• 100ml water;
• various fruits and berries, depending on personal preference (e.g. melon, papayas, pears, pineapples, bananas, strawberries) - 1-2 fruits.

It should be noted that it will take 15-20 minutes to cook fruit in caramel.

Cooking method

1. At the initial stage, the fruit must be thoroughly washed,remove seeds and peel from them, cut into rings or half rings.
2. If we are talking about using hard fruits (for example, pears or melons), then they must first be fried in a small amount of butter.

Need to know! Do not use a Teflon-coated pan as a dish for cooking fruits in caramel. It is better to take the most ordinary frying pan or wok.

1. Once the fruits are ready, you can proceed to the preparation of hot syrup. For syrup, you need to pour sugar and pour it with water so that it slightly covers the bottom layer.
2. Sugar should be boiled until brown.

Attention! So that the caramel could not completely thicken, it is necessary to periodically add water to it in a few drops.

1. One of the aspects that indicates the readiness of the syrup is the acquisition of the smell of slightly burnt sugar. The main indicator of high-quality caramel is the syrupy consistency.
2. At the final stage of cooking fruit in caramel, the syrup should be combined with fruit. Berries and fruits can be dipped in a container with syrup or poured over fruit slices.

The dish can be served hot in bowls with a sprinkle of hard almonds or coconut. Fresh fruit can be replaced with dried fruit soaked in warm water.

Inimitable pear chocolate dessert

Another option for a delicious dessert is pears in chocolate. By the way, instead of pears, as inrecipe for fruit in caramel, you can use any other fruit - apples, oranges, bananas and even berries.

Required Ingredients

• 100 g of any chocolate;
• 2 medium sized pears;
• 150 g cream ice cream without impurities;
• ¼ liters of water;
• a little butter.

Cooking algorithm

1. Initially, pour water into the pan (it should be deep enough) and add sugar to it.
2. Fruits should be peeled and boiled for 20 minutes.
3. After the pulp becomes soft, the pears must be taken out and slightly cooled.
4. Next, you need to chop the chocolate into as small pieces as possible.
5. Throw the chocolate into the syrup where the pears were cooked and wait for it to completely dissolve.

Important! To avoid burning and bitter taste, cook fruits in caramel and chocolate should be on the slowest possible fire.

1. After the mixture boils for 5 minutes, add a small piece of butter to it and mix everything thoroughly.
2. The ice cream must be divided into two identical parts and placed in a specially prepared dish.
3. In a bowl with ice cream, place the pears tail up.
4. Pour the whole dish with chocolate and serve warm.

Coconut flakes, nuts and raisins can serve as an addition to the dish. If we are talking about the use of sweet varieties of pears, after they are boiled,lightly soak them in lemon juice.