Fruit Couli

Alison_B

The kids are very much into waffles at the moment but wont have fruit on them and insist on these chocolate sauces. Does anybody know how to make a successful fruit couli that I can put on them rather than buying ones that contain sugars? Also, would I be able to use this as a drink syrup, so that I could just add carbonated water instead of cordial?

Many thanks

tootles_2

I make fruit couli by putting the fruit into the food processor with a small amount of icing sugar and blitzing it then put it through a strainer to get any pips out.

Never tried using them as drinks so cannot comment on that.

Dobie

Is a couli the same as a fruit puree? Is it a slightly runnier version?

Sorry if I'm going off at a tangent here but I have home made fruit puree on my cereal every morning & I just cook the fruit - my favourite is a mixture of eating apples, pears & dried apricots - in a VERY little water
then blitz it. It doesn't need any sugar & it's delicious, I vary the fruit sometimes depending on what comes in my weekly fruit box, last week I used a punnet of goosberries with the dried apricots but that DID need sweetening.

tootles_2

Puree is cooked, couli is uncooked fruit.

Alison_B

So, it would be a puree that I want then as I don't really want to add sugar if possible.

comping_cat

Not suitable for your breakfast waffles, but a lovely coulis is blend your fruit (i use a stick blender) and then add a splash of white wine, its lovely!!!!!

recovering_spendaholic

couli is easy to make as others have said, but if you try and top it with water for cordial it goes all bitty and gets a sort of froth on top. Have you tried mashing banana with either honey and/or peanut butter on the waffles?

Dobie

tootles wrote:

Puree is cooked, couli is uncooked fruit.

I knew someone would know:o

Alison_B

recovering_spendaholic wrote:

couli is easy to make as others have said, but if you try and top it with water for cordial it goes all bitty and gets a sort of froth on top. Have you tried mashing banana with either honey and/or peanut butter on the waffles?

They won't touch fruit on waffles for some reason. They prefer to have it in a separate bowl.:rolleyes:

sophiesmum_2

A friend of mine makes a fruity type sauce for her diabetic sons ice creams etc. She wizzes a jar of sugar free/weight watchers type jam with a small amount of sugar free lemonade then puts it in a squezy bottle.It keeps in fridge for ages.
sophiesmum