Tips: How to spice up a fruit salad
You don’t necessarily need to master dozens of pastry skills nor spend hours to make an interesting and flavourful dessert!
Sometimes you can’t bake or just don’t have the time, but that does not mean you have to skip the dessert! 😛
A fruit salad is an excellent and colourful way to finish a meal and it can be made with any kind of fruit you have in your fridge.
I recently tried giving the standard fruit salad a twist by adding a “spiced up” sugar syrup and the result was excellent!
The secret is steeping herbs and spices in a simple syrup made of water and brown sugar in equal parts. My fruit salad was flavoured with fresh ginger, cinnamon, orange, coriander seeds, star anise and vanilla.
How will you make yours? 🙂
Spiced up fruit salad
Print recipeIngredients
Spiced up syrup
| 150g | Water |
| 150g | Brown sugar |
| 20g | Fresh ginger (chopped coarsely) |
| 1 | Orange zest |
| 1 | Lemon slice |
| 1 | Vanilla bean (split) |
| 1 teaspoon | Coriander seeds |
| 2 | Star anise |
| Cinnamon sticks | |
| Any other herb or spice you like! (mint, nutmeg, chili pepper, cardamom,..) |
Fruit salad
| 1 | Orange |
| 200g | Strawberries |
| 1 | Mango |
| 1 | Kiwi |
| Any other fruit you like! (grapefruit, pineapple, pear, apple, papaya...) |
Directions
1
In a saucepan, bring the water and the brown sugar to a boil on medium heat
2
When the syrup is ready, remove from the heat and add the herbs and spices. Let steep for at least 30 minutes.
3
Peel the orange, cut it in segments and place in a bowl
4
Slice, dice and add the other fruits (tip: a fruit salad all made of small 1cm dice can look pretty cool and is worth the effort)
5
Strain the syrup onto the fruit salad. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least a couple of hours, or better overnight.
6
Serve in glasses or cups with just one or two tablespoons of syrup
