Pineapple maccheroni with fresh fruit and raspberry coulis

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This clever little dessert sees thin strips of pineapple formed into tubes of ‘pasta’, which are them piped with finely diced fruits in a sweet whipped cream. The raspberry coulis on the bottom and the wild strawberries on top finish the dish off beautifully.

First published in 2018

Ingredients

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Raspberry coulis

  • 250g of raspberries
  • icing sugar

Filled pineapple

  • 1/3 pineapple, peeled
  • 1 apricot
  • 1 kiwi fruit
  • 1 apple
  • 1 pear
  • 75g of cream
  • 10g of sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract

To garnish

Method

1
To begin, make the coulis. Blend the raspberries lightly, then pass through a sieve to remove the seeds. Sweeten with icing sugar to taste
  • icing sugar
  • 250g of raspberries
2
Prepare the pineapple by slicing thinly on a mandoline, a maximum of 1.5mm
  • 1/3 pineapple, peeled
3
Finely dice all of the fresh fruits
4
Whip the cream in a bowl with the sugar until stiff, then stir in the vanilla extract. Combine with the diced fruits and place in a piping bag
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 75g of cream
  • 10g of sugar
5
Roll up each slice of pineapple into a tube, then cut each tube in half down the middle
6
Stand up six pineapple 'maccheroni' on each serving plate and pipe in the cream and fruit mixture. Spoon the raspberry coulis around the maccheroni
7
Top with wild strawberries, dust with icing sugar and garnish with mint leaves. Serve immediately

As the proud owner of three Michelin stars since 1996, Nadia Santini is a chef at the very top of her game, combining the wow-factor of classical French cooking with the rustic, warming, welcoming flavours of Italy.

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