Tutti Frutti | Homemade Tutti Frutti | Homemade Recipes
Author: Vindhya Desai
Recipe type: Homemade
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 1 big bowl
- 1 medium raw papaya
- 6 Cups + 2 Cups water
- 1¼ Cups sugar
- ¾ Tsp lemon/lime juice
- 1 Tsp vanilla
- Few drops of natural food colour (atleast 3 types)
- Wash and wipe raw papaya
- Peel the skin of papaya, halve it
- Scoop the seeds out with a spoon
- Chop the papaya into small cubes
- Bring 6 Cups of water to a boil
- When water starts simmering, carefully add the papaya cubes into it
- Keep boiling the papaya pieces till they are partially cooked and appear translucent
- Drain the water from the papaya
- Put the papaya back into a pan/vessel
- Add sugar and pour in 2 cups of water
- Turn the flame back on
- Mix well until sugar dissolves
- Squeeze a few drops of lemon juice, papaya pieces start boiling in sugar syrup
- Now add 1 Tsp of good vanilla and give it a stir
- Boil further till the syrup reaches 1 string consistency
- After most of the sugar syrup has coated the papaya pieces, turn the flame off
- If there is excess sugar syrup, drain it and divide papaya pieces into 3 bowls
- Into each bowl, add a few drops of natural food colour of your choice
- Mix it well till the colour coats papaya pieces
- Keep it overnight or up to 24 hours till the colour gets absorbed into papaya pieces
- Absorb excess moisture by emptying coloured tutti frutti pieces onto absorbent kitchen paper towels / napkins
- Leave it for a few hours
- Tutti Frutti is now ready to be used for recipes like Dil Pasand, Mango Mastani or eggless Tutti Frutti ice cream which is coming up next on FOI
Ensure you have fresh and firm raw papaya
Lemon juice is added to prevent crystallization of sugar syrup. It does not make tutti frutti sour/tart
Do not worry if you don't reach sugar syrup consistency. If the ingredients are measured correctly then just boil till most of the water evaporates
Recipe by Food Of Interest at https://foodofinterest.com/tutti-frutti/
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