Fresh Fruit Minestrone

Name: Fresh Fruit Minestrone
Ingredients: 1 Granny Smith apple; 300 ml orange juice; 1 lemon; 1 banana; 30 g basil; 2 vanilla pods; 400 ml water; 350 g sugar; Sprig of basil for decoration; 425 ml natural or plain yogurt; Lemon juice, for sprinkling; Fresh basil; 200 g strawberries; 2 kiwis; 200 g apricots; 80 ml whipping cream (mixed, not whipped); 100 g sugar

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Le Cordon Bleu Dessert Techniques

By Le Cordon Bleu

Published 1999

About

Simple, yet beautiful to look at and refreshing to eat, a variety of cut summer fruit is steeped in a spiced fruit marinade, set over ice and served with a quenelle of iced yogurt. This special salad needs to be prepared well in advance to allow the fruit to absorb the flavours.

Ingredients

For the marinade

2 vanilla pods
400 ml water
350 g

Gluten-free
Vegetarian
ice cream

Method

Before you prepare the syrup for the marinade, peel and slice the lemon but not the banana as this will discolour very quickly once peeled. Set the lemon slices aside and cut the vanilla pods in half lengthwise to release the flavour more easily. Place the water; sugar and vanilla pods in a saucepan and bring to the boil. Remove from the heat and add the orange juice and the lemon. Blend ingred