Home Made Tutti Fruity (Indian Candied Fruit )

Tutti Fruity according to Wikipedia is (from Italian “all fruits”, also hyphenated tutti-frutti) is a colourful confection containing various chopped and usually candied fruits, or an artificially created flavouring simulating the combined flavour of many different fruits. It is often used for making a tutti frutti ice cream flavor.

In India, tutti-frutti refers to candied raw papaya. These are always small cubical pieces often brightly colored. The most common color being red, tutti-frutti are also available in rich green and yellow colors. These are used in various bakery products including cakes, milk-breads, cookies, and buns. Tutti-frutti is also used in cold deserts as toppings for the ice-creams and sundaes. Today I will share the recipe to make these tutti frutti at home. So let’s start the recipe .yum

Recipe Source : Nishamadhulika .com

Tutti Fruity

Ingredients :

200 gm Raw papaya

200 gm Granulated Sugar

1 drop Red Food Color

1 drop Green food color

1 drop Blue/yellow food color

1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence

Water as needed

Method:

Wash and peel papaya , remove seeds and chop finely.

Papaya pieces

Boil 1 cup water in a vessel, add the papaya pieces and let it boil for 3 minutes. Turn off the heat and soak the pieces for 5 minutes in same water. Now sieve the papaya pieces from water.

Papaya pieces

Blanched papaya

Take sugar in a pan and add 300 gm water .Cook until sugar dissolves completely. Add blanched papaya pieces in sugar syrup now and cook until sugar syrup gets a little sticky.

Tutti Fruity

Turn off the gas and let the pieces get frigid. Add 2-3 drops of vanilla essence in syrup coated papaya pieces.

Tutti Fruity

Equally divide the papaya pieces into three parts. Add 1 drop of red color in a bowl and mix one part of the sugar coated papaya pieces into it.

Add 1 drop of green color in separate bowl and add second part of the papaya pieces into it.Add 1 drop if yellow or blue color in the third part of papaya pieces .

Now keep these papaya pieces soaked in color and sugar syrup aside for 12-24 hours so that they get sweet and colored properly.

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After 12-24 hours take out the pieces form sugar syrup , sieve and place them on a wire net placed on top of the plate. Extra sugar syrup will removed .

Tutti Fruity