Recipes from Cooking with Doyle Moore on Focus 580

June 7, 2000:  Cooking with Fresh Fruit

The Cake Mix Doctor (Workman Publishing Company 1999; ISBN 0761117199) is a cookbook by Anne Byrn with good suggestions for the use of fruit in baking.  It contains suggestions for folding in fruits, and the idea of using fresh zest from oranges or lemons to perk up a cake mix.

MAKING PINEAPPLES TASTE RIPE

Take a pineapple that doesn’t taste ripe and put it into a simple syrup for a while.

MANGO SALSA

Pear, Pineapple, Mango, Olive Oil and Cilantro

TIPS FOR MANGOS

• Put fresh mangos in the freezer

• Serve with yogurt, or ice cream, etc.

• Breaks down the fibrous nature

• The softer the better, a little yellow

STEAK AND MANGO STIR FRY

• 350g steak (3/4 pound)

• ginger

• 2 spring onions (2” lengths)

• 2 fresh mangos

• 6 tablespoons oil

Marinade

• 1 tablespoon soy sauce

• ½ tablespoon dry sherry

• 1 teaspoon salt

• 1 tablespoon corn starch

Seasoning

• 1 tablespoon light soy sauce

• 3 tablespoons vinegar

• 3 tablespoons sugar

• 3 tablespoons mango juice

• ½ tablespoon salt

• 1 teaspoon sesame oil

• ½ tablespoon corn flour

Mix the marinade in a bowl.

Slice the steak into 6mm thick fillets and marinate for at least 15 minutes.

Mince the ginger and spring onions and slice the mango into cubes 2x1 inches.

Mix the seasoning.

Stir fry the steak for one minute in 4 tablespoons of hot oil.  Drain and remove to a plate.

Wipe out the wok with a paper towel

Sizzle the spring onions and ginger in 2 tablespoons hot oil (can save some spring onions to sprinkle on the top for contrast).  Add the mangos and gently combine for 5 seconds before stirring in the seasoning.  Add the steak and serve immediately with rice.

MANGO DESSERT

Purée mangos.  Into a "puddle" of mangos on a plate, pile fresh strawberries (slightly sweetened) on top.

CARROT AND ORANGE SOUP

Onion and carrots are cooked.

Zest of orange is added.

Purée and the mixture and thin it down, then add orange juice at the last minute.

Add cream at the last minute also.

Try seasoning with cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg.

RHUBARB PIE TIPS

• try adding ginger

• Use lots of sugar

• Use flour to thicken

DANDELION WINE

• tedious to make

• large amounts of head

• remove the yellow from the green

• tastes like a German white wine, not fruity, but dry, clear, and tasty

• contains its own yeast

GRAPEFRUIT IDEAS

• cut into small slices so you can pull off the rind

• serve broiled with a sprinkling of brown sugar