When the winter hits and my immune system feels taxed, bolstering my diet with ruby red grapefruit is a delicious preventative against the common cold and various flu germs that lurk everywhere I go. This delectable breakfast recipe takes the everyday grapefruit to extraordinary status with a topping of vanilla and ginger and a quick caramelization under the broiler.

Texas Grapefruit Broiled with Vanilla-Ginger Sauce

Recipe courtesy of TexaSweet Citrus Marketing, Inc.

Serves 6

Ingredients:

• 1/3 cup sugar


• 3 tablespoons chopped crystallized ginger   3/4 teaspoon vanilla


• 6 Texas Rio Star Grapefruit

Directions:

1. In an electric coffee/spice grinder, combine sugar, ginger, and vanilla and grind fine.


2. Halve each grapefruit crosswise and run a knife around each section to loosen the membranes.


3. Arrange grapefruit, cut side up, in a baking dish and sprinkle with sugar mixture.


4. Broil grapefruit about 1-1/2 inches from heat until sugar melts and tops begin to brown. Approximately 10 to 15 minutes.


5. Serve grapefruit at room temperature

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