Mark Hix

Tropical Fruit Salad with Star Anise

Preparation info
  • Serves

    2

    adults and 2 small children
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Eat Up: Food for Children of All Ages
Eat Up

By Mark Hix

Published 2000

  • About

A refreshing summer or winter fruit salad with a hint of aniseed. You can vary the fruit according to what’s in season and your own taste.

Ingredients

  • ½ pineapple, peeled, cored and cut into small cubes
  • 2 bananas, peeled and sliced
  • 1 mango, peeled, stoned and cut into small

Method

Put all the ingredients for the syrup in a small pan, bring to the boil and simmer for 2-3 minutes. Leave to cool.

Remove the star anise from the syrup. Pour the syrup over the fruit and chill for 1 hour before serving.