Log with exotic fruits


For : 6 servings Time : 40 minutes (+ 1 h) Difficulty :

Ingredients for Log with exotic fruits :

	1 Prepare all the ingredients.
	2 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.
	3 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.
	4 Peel the pineapple, mango and kiwi fruits.
	5 Peel the mandarines and remove the quarters only. Reserve a few ones to decorate.
	6 Dip the fruits in the syrup and for 5 minutes.
	7 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.
	8 Remove ice-cream and sorbet from the freezer. Pit the dates and cut them in small pieces.
	9 Remove the fruits from the syrup and carefully drain them.
	10 In a bowl, gently mix the vanilla ice-cream, sorbet mango-passion fruit,...
	11 ...poached fruits, pieces of dates and peeled shelled pistachios.
	12 Pour this mixture in a log mold (gutter), then reserve one hour in the freezer.
	13 Place the log on a plate or cardboard, unmold and take of the plastic wrap.
	14 Sprinkle with icing sugar. decorate with slices of kiwi fruits cut in two and mandarine quarters. Keep in the freezer.