For those of you who know me, I’m not a great lover of grapefruits. In fact, eating a grapefruit usually consist of me choking it down with pursed lips and a sour look on my face. But when I ran across this recipe, in the Betty Crocker’s Picture Cook Book, (Don’t worry, I promise my next post will use a new cookbook) I just had to try it. I have never thought about cooking a grapefruit. I thought the idea had potential. I could see the heat caramelizing the natural sugar of the fruit.
Here are my ingredients: grapefruit, brown sugar, and maraschino cherries. By the way, if you have only tried the neon red cherries, give these cherries a try. They have a truer cherry flavor and are made with real sugar and not high fructose corn syrup. Yum!
Take a sharp knife and cut the segments away from the membrane. This will take a couple of minutes, but is well worth it. Sprinkle the grapefruits with some brown sugar and put them under the broiler for about 15 mins. This is a good time to tell you to make sure you put down foil on your pans first. I didn’t and made a terrible smokey mess. Lesson learned. Here are the grapefruit ready to go in the oven.
Once the grapefruit are cooked and heated to the middle, add a spoonful of cherry syrup over the top and garish with a cherry.
These grapefruit turned out so pretty and were pretty good to eat. I didn’t even make my sour face, and I might even eat another one in the future.
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