Tutti Frutti from Watermelon Rinds

Watermelon Rind Tutti Frutti is a home made sweet and colourful tutti frutti with white part of the watermelon rinds and can be used in cakes, cookies and ice creams.Watermelon Rind Tutti Frutti recipe is explained with step by step method and photos.

The following ingredients are needed to prepare Tutti Frutti from Watermelon Rinds .

Ingredients:-

Watermelon.     -1 medium size
Sugar.               -1cup
Water.               - 1cup
Vanilla essence.- 1drop
Food colours.    - a pinch of red, green, yellow and orange colour.

Instructions:-

1). Cut a ripe watermelon and after using the sweet pink fleshy fruit part, collect the harder and less juicy watermelon rind part.

 

2). Chop and remove the green outer layer of the watermelon rinds and wash the white part of the watermelon rinds in water. 

Method:-

1). Chop the white part of the watermelon rinds into very small pieces.

2). In a wide bottom vessel add sugar and water. Stir well and boil on medium flame till sugar dissolves.

3). Add chopped watermelon rind pieces into the boiling sugar syrup in the vessel.

4). Boil and cook the watermelon rind pieces in sugar syrup for 15 to 20 minutes on low flame and stir in between. Switch off the flame and let it cool down.

5). Once cooled to room temperature pour the boiled rind pieces with sugar syrup in 5 seperate bowls.

6). Add a pinch of 4 different food colours in 4 seperate bowls and mix the colours with the sugar syrup in each bowl using a spoon. Add a drop of vanilla essence in one bowl and mix with the sugar syrup. 

7). Place all the sugar syrup bowls on a large plate and allow to soak the rind pieces in coloured sugar syrup for 4 to 5 hours.

8). Drain the sugar syrup from each bowls and spread the soaked watermelon rind pieces on 5 seperate plates and dry the coloured rinds under hot sun.

9). Sun dry the watermelon rind tutti frutti till it becomes dry.

10). Keep the sun-dried watermelon rind tutti frutti together in a bowl or you can store it in a glass bottle with lid and keep in the refrigerator to stay good for longer period.

A tasty, sweet and colourful home made Watermelon Rind Tutti Frutti is ready to use in cakes, cookies and ice creams.