Grilled Summer Fruit

Ingredients

Syrup

  • ¼ cup unsalted butter, melted
  • ¼ cup white granulated sugar
  • 1 tbsp pure vanilla extract
  • ¼ cup peach nectar
  • 1 tbsp lemon zest, finely grated

Fruit

  • 3 ripe yellow peaches, halved and pitted
  • 2 red apples, cored and halved
  • 4 plums, halved
Grilled Summer Fruit

Photo: Ilia Ustyantsev from Russia / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0

Special equipment

  • 8 wooden toothpicks, soaked in water 30 minutes

Procedure

  1. Combine all syrup ingredients in a large saucepan, and bring to a boil over high heat until reduced by ⅓. Set aside until cool.
  2. Skewer plums through the side on the toothpicks. Brush cut side of all fruits liberally with syrup, and place syrup-side down on a medium high grill until marked.
  3. Remove from grill, and serve warm with remaining syrup.