RUM ROASTED PINEAPPLE

By gaster16

Ingredients

• 6 tablespoons (3/4 stick) unsalted butter
• 1 cup (packed) golden brown sugar
• 1/2 cup dark rum
• 6 whole allspice
• 1 vanilla bean (split lengthwise)
• 8 3/4 ” thick rounds peeled very ripe pineapple

Preparation

Step 1

Melt butter in heavy medium skillet over medium heat. Whisk in sugar, rum and allspice. Scrape in seeds from vanilla bean, add bean. Cook until sauce is thick enough to coat spoon and reduced to 1 cup, whisking often, about 10 minutes. Remove from heat discard vanilla bean and allspice, preheat broiler. Arrange pineapple rounds on rimmed baking sheet. Brush both sides of rounds with some of rum sauce, reserve remaining sauce. Broil pineapple close to heat source until deep brown on top, watching carefully and rotating baking sheet to prevent burning, about 8 minutes. Transfer 1 pineapple round to each of 8 plates. Top each pineapple round with scoop of ice cream. Spoon sauce over and serve.