Vanilla Pear and Peach Salad

Name: Vanilla Pear and Peach Salad
Yield: Serves Four
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: caster sugar, for sprinkling; juice of 1 lemon or 2 limes; 1 vanilla pod, split and the seeds loosened; 4 ripe peaches, stoned and cut into rough cubes; 4 ripe pears, peeled, cored and cut into rough cubes

Preparation info

Serves
Four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Keeping it Simple

By Gary Rhodes

Published 2005

About

Seeds from the vanilla pod are used here to provide the spice flavour. If unavailable, simply replace with a splash or two of vanilla extract or essence.

Ingredients

4 ripe pears, peeled, cored and cut into rough cubes
4 ripe peaches, stoned and cut into rough cubes
juice of 1

Method

Place the fruit in a bowl with the lemon or lime juice and sprinkle over some caster sugar, depending on the ripeness of the fruit. Stir the vanilla seeds gently into the fruit, adding the scraped-out pods too.
Refrigerate for 2-3 hours, stirring very gently just before serving.