Flaming Mangoes with Cardamom Syrup

Ingredients

• 0.5 cup firmly brown sugar packed
• 8  cardamom pods hulled
• 3 cups ice cream frozen low-fat
• 0.5 teaspoon lemon zest shredded finely
• 2  firm-ripe mangoes 
• 0.3 cup rum 

Equipment

• bowl
• frying pan

Directions

1. In a 10- to 12-inch frying pan, crush cardamom seed and lemon peel with back of a spoon.
2. Add sugar and 1 cup water. Stir over high heat until sugar dissolves. Boil gently, uncovered, until syrup is reduced to 1/2 cup, 8 to 10 minutes.
3. Meanwhile, cut peel off mangoes, discard pits, and cut fruit into 1/2-inch-wide slices, about 3 inches long. If making ahead, cover fruit and syrup and set aside up to 4 hours.
4. Add mangoes to hot syrup and cook over high heat, turning once, until fruit is hot, 2 to 3 minutes. In a small pan (about 1-qt. size), warm rum until hot. Ignite rum and add to mangoes (not beneath a vent, fan, or flammables). Spoon mangoes and flaming syrup over frozen yogurt in bowls.