Giglio's fruit salad [t]
1 servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | Plums, pitted and sliced | |
| 6 | Peaches, pitted, peeled, and | |
| Sliced | ||
| 1 | Banana, peeled and sliced | |
| ½ | cup | Grapes, seedless or seeded |
| ½ | cup | Champagne or dry sparkling |
| Wine (or Riesling) | ||
| ½ | Hot pepper, seeded and cut | |
| In two pieces | ||
| 1 | Head Boston lettuce, torn | |
| Into small pieces | ||
| ½ | cup | Rice Dream |
Directions
From Cooking From an Italian Garden, by Paola Scaravelli (Holt, Rinehart, & Winston: 1984) a vegetarian but very high fat cookbook - ADAPTED
Put fruit in a bowl, drain and reserve juice.
Put champagne and the hot pepper in a small saucepan, bring to a boil and remove from heat. Discard hot pepper and let champagne sit for 10 minutes. Combine fruit and lettuce in a salad bowl or individual salad bowls. Add Rice Dream to cooled champagne and mix well. Pour over salad and serve immediately.
The original recipe called for heavy cream, and I have tested it with Rice Dream. It tastes great, but Rice Dream does have fat. I have not tried low fat soy milk (can't find it, for one thing), but the vanilla flavor would probably be perfect. It is also good, though not as good, without a cream substitute at all. A sweeter wine such as Riesling is better without Rice Dream.
NOTE: boil the wine longer if you want all of the alcohol out. I don't serve this to children or alcoholic friends. Most of it seems to be gone, however.
From: "Anne.Cox" <20676AC@...>. Fatfree Digest [Volume 9 Issue 29] July 20, 1994. Formatted by Sue Smith, S.Smith34, TXFT40A@... using MMCONV