A luscious color wheel
24th Apr. '08 · Category: Gourmet Color · Tags: color wheel, food, fruit, recipe
Authored by Monica Kelly
Compose a fruit platter inspired by the color wheel and serve it with a creamy dipping sauce.
Choose golden YELLOW chunks of pineapple, ruby RED strawberries and BLUE berries for the primary colors. Add sunny ORANGE mandarin sections, PURPLE grapes and bright GREEN slices of kiwi to represent the secondary colors.
Voila! A beautiful, light dessert.
Fruit:1 pineapple, cored and cut into chunks
2 pints of strawberries, cut into quarters
2 pints blueberries, rinsed
24 oz. mandarin orange sections, drained1 small bunch of seedless grapes, stemmed
4 kiwi, peeled and sliced
Arrange the cut fruit in wedges around the bowl of dipping sauce onto a platter. (a lazy susan works nicely) Nestle tooth picks between the sauce and fruit.
For a refreshing summer presentation: Stir together 12 oz. lemon yogurt, 1 tsp. reserved mandarin orange syrup, and 1 tsp. poppy seeds, until well blended. Garnish with fresh mint leaves.
For a cozy winter presentation: Serve warmed Nutella dusted with cinnamon as the dipping sauce. Garnish using dark squares of chocolate to separate the wedges of fruit.
April 24th, 2008 at 9:12 am
Monica,
I love the idea of making a color wheel of sweet, juicy fruit. This will make the perfect treat to make for my brunch guest next weekend. Thanks for the creative presentation idea.
~Kate
May 1st, 2008 at 9:20 am
Hi Monica,
The food looks wonderful and your recipes sound delicious - can’t wait to try them out!
Ellen
June 3rd, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Monica,
Your food platter looks delicious. I’ve heard that an array of colors makes for healthy eating; this is a sure bet. Thank you for the inspiration!
Janet
June 5th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Janet- I’m so glad that you stopped by. Stay tuned for more colorful recipes.
Monica