Fresh Fruit Desserts Recipes
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Port Fruit Salad Recipe
Ingredients
SERVES
4
300ml/1/2pt water
100g/4oz caster sugar
1 cinnamon stick
4 cloves
Pared zest of 1 orange
300ml/1/2pt port
2 oranges
1 small honeydew melon
4 small bananas
2 dessert apples
225g/8oz seedless grapesa
Method:
Put the water, sugar,
spices and orange zest into a pan and stir over a
gentle heat to dissolve the sugar.
Bring to the
boil, lower the heat, cover and simmer for 10
minutes. Leave to cool, then add the port.
Strain
the liquid into a bowl. With a sharp knife, cut off
all the skin and pith from the oranges.
Then, holding
each orange over the bowl to catch the juice, cut it
into segments, allowing them to drop into the syrup.
Squeeze the
remaining pulp to catch any
juice.
Cut the melon in
half, remove the, seeds and scoop out the flesh.
Add to the syrup.
Peel the bananas and cut them
diagonally In 1 cm/1/2in slices. Quarter and core the
apples and cut the wedges into small cubes.
Halve
the grapes if large. Stir all the fruit into the
syrup, cover with Clingfilm and chill for 1 hour
before serving.