Hot Fresh Fruit Salad with Honey, Ginger and Cardamom

Name: Hot Fresh Fruit Salad with Honey, Ginger and Cardamom
Ingredients: Half a 1-lb/450-g pot of thick honey; 3 good eating apples, e.g. Cox’s, peeled, cored and sliced; 3 good eating apples, e.g. Cox’s, peeled, cored and sliced; 4 cardamom pods, crushed, and the tiny black seeds removed to use; 1 medium pineapple, skin cut off and the flesh cut into chunks; ½ lb/225 g grapes, black or green, whichever is best, cut in half and pips removed; ½ lb/225 g grapes, black or green, whichever is best, cut in half and pips removed; ½ lb/225 g grapes, black or green, whichever is best, cut in half and pips removed; ½ lb/225 g grapes, black or green, whichever is best, cut in half and pips removed; 4–6 pieces of preserved stem ginger, drained of their syrup and chopped; 4–6 pieces of preserved stem ginger, drained of their syrup and chopped; 3 pink grapefruit, skin and pith cut off and the flesh cut into segments, cutting inside the pith

Preparation info

Serves
6–8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Claire Macdonald Cookbook

By Claire Macdonald

Published 1997

About

This is one of the nicest ways to eat fruit at any time of the day, and it makes a delicious course for a winter lunch. If you don’t like the taste of honey – and it is surprising just how many people don’t – use maple syrup instead.

Ingredients

Half a 1-lb/450-g pot of thick honey
3 good eating apples, e.g. Cox’s

Lunch
Dessert
Vegetarian
Gluten-free
Winter

Method

Melt the honey in a wide sauté pan and gently cook the sliced apples in it for a few minutes. Stir in the cardamom seeds, pineapple, grapes, ginger and grapefruit. Heat them all together gently – the only possible casualty might be the grapefruit, which tend to break up a bit in the heat. Keep the fruit salad warm till you are ready to serve.