China Tea Fruit Salad

Name: China Tea Fruit Salad
Yield: Serves Four
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 450 ml/¾ pint water; 2 teaspoons China tea leaves; mint leaves (optional); 175 g/6 oz granulated sugar; 2 bananas; 2 white pears; 100 g/4 oz fresh strawberries; 225 g/8 oz honeydew melon; 225 g/8 oz black grapes

Preparation info

Serves
Four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cooking for Friends

By Prue Leith

Published 1978

About

This is a fairly simple fruit salad, the only exceptional thing about it being the addition of China tea to the syrup. Any fruit can be used, but the following combination is very good.

Ingredients

225 g/8 oz black grapes
225 g/8

Asia
China
Dessert
Gluten-free
Vegan

Method

First prepare the syrup: put the sugar and the water on to boil together, setting over a gentle heat at first so that the sugar dissolves before the water boils. As soon as it is boiling well, pour it directly on to the tea leaves in a bowl. Allow to get stone cold.

Meanwhile prepare all the fruit as you would for a fruit salad, halving the grapes and taking the seeds from them, cutting