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Giglio's Fruit Salad [T]

Giglio's Fruit Salad [T]
Main Ingredient: Rice and Grains Banana Peach

Course: Fruit Salad

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Giglio's Fruit Salad [T] ingredients

  • 8 Plums, pitted and sliced
  • 6 Peaches, pitted, peeled, and Sliced
  • 1 Banana, peeled and sliced
  • 2483527⁄624973141 c Grapes, seedless or seeded
  • 2483527⁄624973141 c Champagne or dry sparkling Wine (or Riesling)
  • 2483527⁄624973141 Hot pepper, seeded and cut In two pieces
  • 1 Head Boston lettuce, torn Into small pieces
  • 2483527⁄624973141 c Rice Dream

Cooking Giglio's Fruit Salad [T]

1. 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.
2. Put champagne and the hot pepper in a small saucepan, bring to a boil and remove from heat.
3. Discard hot pepper and let champagne sit for 10 minutes.
4. Combine fruit and lettuce in a salad bowl or individual salad bowls.
5. Add Ricei Dream to cooled champagne and mix well.
6. Pour over salad and serve immediately.
7. The original recipe called for heavy cream, and I have tested it with Rice Dream.
8. 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.
9. It is also good, though not as good, without a cream substitute at all. A sweeter wine such as Rieslingi is better without Rice Dream.
10. NOTE: boil the wine longer if you want all of the alcohol out. I don't serve this to children or alcoholic friends.
11. Most of it seems to be gone, however.


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