Kabobs are normally savory, featuring delicious ingredients like chicken, beef, onion, mushrooms, bell peppers and more but what about making a sweet variety? These can feature fresh fruit but you can also use other tasty ingredients like marshmallows, candies and even slices of cake. Fruit skewers are colorful and appetizing and they make a really healthy dessert.
How To Make Japanese Style Fruit Skewers
This mouthwatering dessert can also be served as a savory side dish for fish recipes. You can serve them with plum sauce, a sweet sauce which is great with sweet or savory Asian dishes. This recipe makes enough to serve four people. Soak eight bamboo skewers in cold water for half an hour before you begin and preheat the grill.
You will need a cup of watermelon chunks, a cup of hulled fresh strawberries, a cup of whole, pitted litchis and two bananas in one inch slices. Thread the fruit alternately on to the prepared skewers and brush half a cup of plum sauce over the kabobs. Grill them for about five minutes, turning them frequently and serve hot.
Caramel And Nut Kabobs
This recipe, which serves four people, is a great way to finish dinner, especially in the summer if you have cooked the whole meal outdoors on the grill. You will need twelve cubes of pound cake for this recipe. Spread quarter of a cup of creamy peanut butter on two opposite sides of the cake.
Toss two quartered nectarines with a sliced banana and a little lemon juice, and then thread the cake pieces, nectarine chunks, and banana slices on four long skewers. Heat half a cup of caramel ice cream topping in a small pan, then brush it over the kabobs.
Grill them for about five minutes or until they are very warm, brushing the ice cream topping over them. If you prefer to broil the kabobs, broil them for about five minutes, keeping them five inches from the heat.
Banana Split Skewers
Anyone who enjoys banana splits will love this kabob version of the dish! Soak eight wooden skewers in cold water for half an hour. Cut two bananas into one and a half inch chunks and quarter of a small pineapple into similar sized pieces. Thread these on to the soaked skewers and add eight big hulled strawberries.
Combine two tablespoons of melted butter with a teaspoon of rum, brandy or pineapple juice and brush this over the fruit. Coat the grill rack with cooking spray and preheat it to moderately hot.
Grill the fruit kabobs directly over the coals for about eight minutes or until the bananas are golden brown and the fruit is warm. If you are using a gas grill, use a moderately high temperature. Serve the fruit kabobs with ice cream, your favorite ice cream syrup, and some toasted chopped pecans.
