Giglio's fruit salad [t]
1 servings
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | \N | Plums, pitted and sliced |
| 6 | \N | Peaches, pitted, peeled, and |
| \N | \N | Sliced |
| 1 | \N | Banana, peeled and sliced |
| ½ | cup | Grapes, seedless or seeded |
| ½ | cup | Champagne or dry sparkling |
| \N | \N | Wine (or Riesling) |
| ½ | \N | Hot pepper, seeded and cut |
| \N | \N | In two pieces |
| 1 | \N | Head Boston lettuce, torn |
| \N | \N | Into small pieces |
| ½ | cup | Rice Dream |
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