Passed weekend I had girlfriend visit from Gothenburg … and it was time for some serious cooking.
One evening I did Barbara’s Roasted Putanesca Chicken - and as dessert I served this fresh and spicy dessert. My friend she doesn’t like pineapple, so I used fresh nectarines for her and it worked very well.
Fresh Pineapple with Spicy Mint Sugar, serves 4
½ fresh pineapple
50 fresh mint leafs
60ml (4tbsp) sugar
20ml (4tsp) chili flakes
vanilla ice cream
1. Cut the peel of the pineapple and cut it into 4 pieces – remove the stalk – and cut the fruit meat into thin slices and divide between 4 serving dishes.
2. Cross the fresh mint leafs with the sugar in a mortar until the sugar is deep green and the leafs is dissolved into the sugar. Mix in the chili flakes.
3. Sprinkle the pineapple with the mixture and top with a large scoop of vanilla ice cream.
And you have a flavorful and exciting dessert very quickly.
“I want to have a good body,
but not as much as I want dessert.”
Jason Love
I wish I was that visiting friend this looks awesome
Truly talented my friend!
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Uru … you’re welcome to dine with any day … *smile – so long as you bake one of your calorie free cakes for me.
So easy! Sounds and looks delicious!
Very easy and I promise you will love it.
A dish for me please.
… but Oh no … remember when that song was a hit! 
Yum! Now I am hungry again, I just had my dinner. What a shame. lol
Thanks a million, but you can have it an other day – you must have loads of pineapples where you are.
Yes we do and thank goodness coz I love it.
So do I … will have a piece now .. *smile
seems so delicious… Thank you dear Viveka, love, nia
Try it, Nia … I know you will like it.
sounds easy and delicious.
Brilliant little dessert – have been carried the recipe for years .. don’t have clue where I got it from. Will do something for myself tonight. Treat after the laundry hours.
that sounds very good! love the finished product in the photo…….
Thank you so much … so easy to make.
I love pineapple with vanilla ice cream – beautiful presentation! Love the quote at the end of the post too by the way – a little too true for me!
Same with me … always read the dessert menu before the main .. *smile. It’s a lovely dessert and so easy to make. Not hours in the kitchen, will come back regarding your pork. Just have to try it.
Looks delicious!
It taste the same *smile
Pineapple and mint. I think it’s as good a combination as bread and butter.
I like the combination too. Mint goes with more or less any fruit – my favorite fruit salad is water melon with chopped mint. And strawberries and fresh mint – heavenly. Thanks for your support.
That looks delicious!
The quote is amusing and so true.
Yes, it’s a great dessert and I love the quote too – me in a nutshell. *smile
I am catching up on my reading.. and what a lovely surprise. Thanks so much, Viveka for sharing my blog with your readers. Now I have a yummy dessert to try, it would have paired so well with the main dish! xx
You must have missed the proper post I did about your chicken – http://wp.me/p293Pw-3Hh … I think you where away. Just love it and it’s so simple to make. Thanks for that one – done 3 times already. More recipes like that thanks.
I did read your lovely post:) Just thanking you again, viveka!
It’s a pleasure …. your world is stunning and I enjoy ending up there.
It just so happens I’m hungry right now, & this is a killer! Absolutely delicious. Great friends you have, Viveka!
Don’t have many real good friends, but I don’t think any of us has that .. very pleased with the ones I have. Thanks for your kind words.
Viveka, I can’t believe it! Sugar, Sugar! This brings back memories!!!! I grew up in Santa Monica, California, right by the beach, in my early days. This was a song my father used to play all the time. It was a small black record and the cover was blue with sugar cubes that spelled SUGAR SUGAR. Love it! Love it for the wonderful memories it brings back to me
. THANK YOU! Big hugs 
OOOOOOOOO 
It was ages since I heard the song … and I was looking for a track to go with the dessert I found it – great song and my step father he played so it drove mum crazy. That is ages ago now. So glad that it made you happy too. Nobody else has comment on it. For me is music so important. Like water for me.
Isn’t it funny that the fathers liked it? And now we do, too?!
Yes, I agree, music is very important!
Have sent you an email …. by the way.
Thank you, just seen it. Will reply in a sec…
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Thank you so much for your lovely presentation of my world here.