Fresh fruit salad

Vary this easy fruit salad with whatever fruits you can find in the shops. Tropical fruits make a nice addition too such as mango, passionfruit or even persimmon or dragon fruit. Skip the syrup if you don’t have time.

Ingredients

For the fruit salad

• 1 pink grapefruit
• 1 orange
• 1 pomegranate
• 1 banana
• small bunch white grapes
• small bunch black grapes
• 1 kiwi
• 1 pear
• 1 apple
• sprig mint, to decorate (optional)

For the syrup

• citrus juice (from above)
• 1 lime
• 100g/3½oz sugar
• 1 lemongrass stalk, sliced in half
• 1 thumb-sized piece ginger, roughly sliced

Preparation method

1. For the fruit salad, segment the grapefruit and orange, catching the juices in a bowl. Squeeze more juice out of the remaining citrus fruit into the bowl. Set aside the orange and grapefruit segments.
2. For the syrup, measure the juice and add water to make 100ml/3½fl oz.
3. Peel a large strip of lime zest from the lime, avoiding any of the white pith. Reserve the remaining lime.
4. Combine the citrus juice/water mixture and the sugar in a small saucepan. Heat until the sugar has dissolved, stirring once or twice. Add the lemongrass, lime zest and ginger and then bring to a boil. Immediately reduce the heat to a simmer.
5. Simmer over a low heat for 10 minutes. Turn off the heat and leave the syrup to cool.
6. For the fruit salad, remove the seeds from the pomegranate and slice the banana.

sumber dari: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/