Tutti Frutti | Homemade Tutti Frutti | Homemade Recipes
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Recipe type: Homemade
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 1 big bowl
 
Colourful and fun, homemade tutti frutti for ice creams and baking
Ingredients
  • 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)
Method
  1. Wash and wipe raw papaya
  2. Peel the skin of papaya, halve it
  3. Scoop the seeds out with a spoon
  4. Chop the papaya into small cubes
  5. Bring 6 Cups of water to a boil
  6. When water starts simmering, carefully add the papaya cubes into it
  7. Keep boiling the papaya pieces till they are partially cooked and appear translucent
  8. Drain the water from the papaya
  9. Put the papaya back into a pan/vessel
  10. Add sugar and pour in 2 cups of water
  11. Turn the flame back on
  12. Mix well until sugar dissolves
  13. Squeeze a few drops of lemon juice, papaya pieces start boiling in sugar syrup
  14. Now add 1 Tsp of good vanilla and give it a stir
  15. Boil further till the syrup reaches 1 string consistency
  16. After most of the sugar syrup has coated the papaya pieces, turn the flame off
  17. If there is excess sugar syrup, drain it and divide papaya pieces into 3 bowls
  18. Into each bowl, add a few drops of natural food colour of your choice
  19. Mix it well till the colour coats papaya pieces
  20. Keep it overnight or up to 24 hours till the colour gets absorbed into papaya pieces
  21. Absorb excess moisture by emptying coloured tutti frutti pieces onto absorbent kitchen paper towels / napkins
  22. Leave it for a few hours
  23. 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
Notes
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/