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Fruit “Cocktail” with Orange Sauce

November 24, 2011 By Betsy Cohen

A Healthy Toast to You

Fruit "Cocktail" with Orange SauceFruit cocktail brings to mind disgusting images of grapes that don’t even look real anymore and peaches and pineapples whose original taste is not even a faint memory. I know that these canned varieties are quite popular, because there are grocery store shelves lined with various kinds of fruit cocktail, but I have an aversion to even putting them in my grocery cart much less bringing them into my house.

Why even bring up such a topic, you ask? I have been thinking about the many, many big meals and even bigger dessert spreads I will be eating over the next few weeks and it reminded me of a dessert that seems so appropriate to share.

Several years ago, I was asked to come up with a “thinning” dessert. I remember having a sense of panic as my mind usually does not think along those lines.

Don’t get me wrong, it is not that I set out with the goal of creating a dessert with the highest calorie count imaginable; it is more that I do not think about calories at all…EVER. Freud would absolutely have a great time with me, but that is most definitely a subject for a different discussion.

Lest you think that I only eat candies, cakes, cookies or any of the other fabulous categories listed on Desserts Required, you should know that I love fruit, just not out of a can or container. I don’t even have to put fresh fruit in a pie or cake to be completely satisfied.

Fresh fruit is usually what I think of when asked about a “thinning” dessert. Yet, I want the fruit presented in a way that everyone feels like they are eating something well thought out and desired, which is why I arrange the fruit pieces in individual martini glasses. Can you imagine being handed a whole kiwi at the end of a fabulous dinner and told to “enjoy?”

An orange dessert sauce was the perfect addition to an enticing “cocktail” of fruit. It is a light sauce with just the right amount of orange flavor to it, as both the juice and the zest are used.

So as we eat our way through the next few weeks, raise a glass of Fruit “Cocktail” with Orange Sauce and toast to your cleverness.

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Fruit "Cocktail" with Orange Sauce
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Recipe Type: Dessert
Author: Betsy Cohen
Prep time: 20 mins
Cook time: 10 mins
Total time: 30 mins
Ingredients
  • Orange sauce:
  • ⅓ cup sugar
  • 1 tablespoon cornstarch
  • pinch of salt
  • 1 tablespoon orange zest
  • ¼ cup freshly squeezed orange juice
  • 2 cups milk (skim, 2% or whole)
  • Fruit "cocktail":
  • navel oranges, peeled and sectioned
  • strawberries
  • 1 pineapple, peeled and cored
  • green grapes
  • kiwis
  • blueberries
  • raspberries
Instructions
  1. For the orange sauce:
  2. Combine all of the Orange Sauce ingredients in a medium size saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until creamy and simmering, about 10 minutes. Do not boil the sauce. Transfer to a separate bowl and immediately place a piece of wax paper directly onto the surface of the sauce. Cool completely at room temperature and then refrigerate until cold, several hours or overnight.
  3. For the fruit "cocktail":
  4. Wash the strawberries, grapes and raspberries separately. Hull the strawberries. Dry the grapes. Drain the raspberries on paper towels. Peel, slice and halve the kiwis. Cut the pineapple into bite size pieces. Slice the grapes in half.
  5. Place 3-4 orange sections in each martini glass, angling them out from the bottom. Slice strawberries and place them in the glass around the orange slices. Add a layer of pineapple, grape slices, kiwi, banana slices and raspberries.
  6. Spoon the Orange Sauce over the fruit and top with a few raspberries. Serve immediately, passing additional sauce if desired.
  7. Betsy’s Tidbits:
  8. The fruits selected for the Fruit “Cocktail” are limitless. Choose what is fresh, ripe and appealing to you.
  9. The amount of fruit needed is dependent on how many people are being served as well as how the fruit is being presented. More fruit is needed for a fruit platter than for individual martini glasses.
  10. The Orange Sauce recipe may be halved if serving a small group.
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Happylicious By Betsy December 2015 lo res I have loved desserts for as long as I can remember. Growing up I loved the smell of freshly baked challah in my maternal great-grandmother’s kitchen, the incredible butter cookies from my paternal grandmother and the perfect pies my mother used to bake when company came over. More about me.
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