More often eat pineapples fresh or dried, are very popular and canned fruit. But tropical fruits can be cooked in a different way. For example, a pineapple in the oven or on the grill is unusual but very pleasant taste. For many, this dish will be a real discovery.

Always delicious

Oh great taste of pineapples know, probably all. It has long gone are the days when a unusual, similar to a fetus lump, treated with suspicion, not knowing how to use it correctly. It got to the ridiculous: in the old days in Russia, for example, pineapple brew as cabbage, and used for cooking cabbage and thistles.

Modern man pineapple is not unusual: the shelves are filled with canned, frozen, fresh and dried tropical fruits. And pineapples are used very widely: from them cooked salads and delicious snacks Low calorie snacks   with cheese or ham, luxury hot dishes, sweet desserts and succulent pastries.

Fresh ripe pineapples are most useful after heat treatment vitamin Vitamins for everyone   C in the fruit is substantially reduced. At the same time, the pineapple flavor from such treatment does not suffer. So other than the completion of the dinner will be in the nature of pineapple, cooked on the grill. If the dish is intended for adults, pineapple, you can sprinkle with rum or other flavored alcohol. For children is more appropriate pineapple flavored with orange juice and mango juice.

How to prepare pineapple

When choosing a pineapple, it is best to give preference to the heavy fruit. The peel from ripe fruit should not be too hard, elastic and leaves - easily removable. In addition, ripe pineapple should have a strong pleasant fragrance. If the smell of the fruit notes are felt alcohol is probably ripe pineapple and began to deteriorate. Stains and soft areas on the skin also showed that the pineapple is spoiled.

Many do not know how to approach prickly fruit, pineapple but cleaning is not as difficult as it seems. At first, the fruit should be cut from the top of the leaves, remove the peel (if ripe pineapple, this will be easy) and carefully cut out all the dark "eyes". Then cut the pineapple into slices. Hard core comprises most of bromelain - a substance that breaks down proteins and having other useful properties. However, feeding pineapple to the table, from the core of it is better to get rid of.

Pineapple from the oven

Fragrant fruits often cooked with meat, but also to other products, they combine not less than harmonious. For example, pineapple can be baked in the oven with potatoes - the potatoes and the usual humdrum transformed and turned into an amazing deli dish.

Need for this dish six mid-sized potatoes, a sweet pepper, five rings canned pineapple, three cloves of garlic, two hundred grams of cheese, vegetable oil, pine nuts, herbs, salt and pepper. Potatoes should be well washed, but not cleaned, cut into large slices. Rinse peppers, remove the stalk, cut into slices of medium size. Pineapple cut into cubes.

Pepper mix with the potatoes, add the vegetable oil, crushed garlic, salt and spices to taste. Put the vegetables on a baking sheet, spread out on top of the cubes of pineapple and bake for forty minutes at a temperature of one hundred and sixty degrees. Five minutes before the dish is ready sprinkle with grated cheese. Serve baked potatoes with pineapple on lettuce leaves and garnish with fresh herbs and pine nuts.

Maria Bykov

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