After researching and writing my 2014 food trends article, I wanted to try as many things off the list as possible and when I first found out exotic fruit was going to be on the list I knew I had to do something with that. I love all fruit especially mangos and passion fruit but I didn’t want to forget what lovely fruits winter has to offer.















Fruit

I have used a lot of these fruits in recent recipes but they are so tasty and unfortunately very seasonal so can only be used this time of year. Persimmons, kumquats, physalis, cranberries and I chucked a pear in there as well. Not overly exotic but they are so good at this time of year 😀 Exotic fruit is not necessarily the right term to use because if you live somewhere its all grown then it just become more of a winter fruit pie but delicious none the less!















Pie style

As I mentioned before in my apple and cranberry pie post I like pastry but I don’t like mounds of it so I decided to make this pie galette style a little less pastry but still enough to hold all this amazing fruit.















For the pastry I used my go-to sweet vanilla pastry, its quick and simple to make. You could always use ready made if you like to save you time.















Sauce

As with any fruit when you start to cook it down a bit, it has a lot of juice with it. Added to the fact you have to add a little water to get it going in the first place, it can quickly make your pie soggy and uninviting. But I have a solution to this problem… with this pie at least.















The juice from all that fruit is a beautiful pink colour bursting with all the natural sweetness of the fruit. It tasted amazing and I didn’t want it to go to waste.















So instead of adding cream or ice cream with this pie I decided that if I reduced it down a little added a touch of cornflour (cornstarch) to it, it made a wonderfully fruity colourful sauce to accompany it. It helped to intensify the fruit flavour even more 🙂















In theory you could add any fruit you like to this pie but these fruits here compliment each other so well. I shall definitely be trying this again as all the different seasonal fruits become available.