Log with exotic fruits

Technical stages for Log with exotic fruits :

• In a saucepan, mix the caster sugar with 50 cl water, finely grated zests of a lemon and its juice along with the split vanilla bean.
• Bring to a simmer by stirring with a spatula until the sugar is completely dissolved, then leave to cook on medium heat for about 8 minutes until you obtain a syrup consistancy without coloring.
• Peel the pineapple, mango and kiwi fruits.
• Peel the mandarines and remove the quarters only. Reserve a few ones to decorate.
• Dip the fruits in the syrup and poach for 5 minutes.
• Leave the fruits to cool down in the syrup by placing the all thing in a salad bowl itself placed in a pan full of ice cubes to speed up the cooling down.
• Remove ice-cream and sorbet from the freezer.
• Pit the dates and cut them in small pieces.
• Remove the fruits from the syrup and carefully drain them.
• In a bowl, gently mix the vanilla ice-cream, sorbet mango-passion fruit, poached fruits, pieces of dates and peeled shelled pistachios.
• Pour this mixture in a log mold (gutter), then reserve one hour in the freezer.
• Place the log in a dish, sprinkle with icing sugar. decorate with slices of kiwi fruits cut in two and mandarine quarters.