You can make it with a single fruit cut into wedges or pieces or with different seasonal fruits for a sort of hot fruit salad. And don't forget the cream or ice cream!
Have you ever thought about cooking the fruit in the oven, just like you do with vegetables?
A beautiful pan of mixed seasonal fruit, cut into pieces, topped with spices and herbs, to be served warm with cream or ice cream.
Here are some ideas for a comfortable and light dessert.
Apple pan
If the baked apple it seems like a hospital cake, try this version, easy, fast and also different from usual.
Wash very well different varieties of apple, yellow, green, red, and after removing the core cut them in wedges keeping the peel.
Arrange them in a baking dish, season with del Orange juice, brown sugar or honey, a pinch of nutmeg, lots of it cinnamon and of almonds coarsely chopped.
Cook in a static hot oven at 200 ° for about 15 minutes and serve the lukewarm apple wedges, with their sauce which will have become thick, and a semi-whipped cream.
Pears pan
Another variant is the one with solo pears.
Pears are very sweet so don't overdo it with sugar or honey.
Again cut them in pieces, which can be wedges or cubes, and season with tangerine juice which is more delicate, hand-broken walnuts, cinnamon and ginger. Same cooking method as the previous recipe.
They look good in accompaniment with della ricotta cheese well sieved sweetened with a teaspoon of honey.
Autumn baked fruit pan
If you want to prepare one hot fruit salad, cut into pieces the seasonal fruit which you prefer among apples, pears, oranges and apple persimmons, add some grapes and some sweet vegetable such as fennel and carrots and season with orange juice, honey or sugar and a few sprigs of rosemary for a very rustic taste. If you don't like the aroma of rosemary, use leaves of mint.
Once ready, add some pomegranate grains that give freshness, color and a sour note that dampens the sweetness of the cooked fruit.
Hot fruit salad is delicious as it is, but you can accompany it with some creamy white yogurt or ice cream.
Fruit crumble
If a pan of fruit only does not convince you, but you want a complete dessert, then prepare a crumble.
Fix the pieces of fruit in the pan, season with spices and sweeten it to taste and then cover it with a layer of sweet crumbs. How are they prepared?
For the classic crumble work with your hands 200 g of flour with 100 g of sugar and 100 g of cold butter until a sandy consistency is obtained.
For a healthier crumble, without butter and sugar, you can instead chop coarsely 80 g of oat flakes with 50 g of almonds and 50 g of walnuts is a spoonful of coconut oil and perfume everything with ginger or cinnamon.
These "crumbs" are then used to cover the fruit before putting everything in the oven.
You will get a dessert with a crunchy surface and a soft and sweet heart to be served warm with ice cream.
