Papaya Dessert
By: Anonymous
Published: Wednesday, December 9, 2009 - 12:05am

Ingredients




1 ripe papaya
1 a Tahitian vanilla bean
1 dsh brown sugar
dab of butter
1 ounce (28 ml) of rum
Tahitian vanilla ice cream

Preparation

1 Cut papaya in half. Clean out seeds from the centre of the papaya. 2 Slice the vanilla bean open and scrape the seeds out. Spread seeds on the insides of both papaya halves. 3 Sprinkle brown sugar on each half of papaya and spread butter into mixture. Pour rum over both halves. 4 Wrap each half separately in tin foil and bake at 250 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes. 5 Unwrap papaya saving the juice from inside foil. 6 Place a scoop of Tahitian vanilla ice cream on top of each half and pour juice over.