Thai fruit salad with chilli

Name: Thai fruit salad with chilli
Yield: Feeds four
Cuisine: Thailand
Ingredients: 1 small red chilli, sliced; 1 tbsp grated ginger; 800 g (1¾ lb) your choice of cherries, grapes, mangoes, stone fruit, strawberries, rambutan, lychees, melons, nectarine, paw paw, pineapple, cut and trimmed as appropriate; 1 cup water; 1 small bunch mint; 1 lime, sliced; juice of one lime; 200 g (7 oz) white sugar; 1 extra lime; 1 extra red chilli

Preparation info

Feeds
four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Old Food

By Jill Dupleix

Published 1998

About

Somehow a little bit of chilli will sneak into just about everything in Thailand, even a snack of fresh fruit. This tropical fruit salad is given a velvet-booted kick with a sweet syrup infused with ginger and chilli.

Ingredients

200 g (7 oz) white sugar
1 cup water

Asia
Thailand
Dessert
Vegan
Gluten-free
South East Asia

Method

Dissolve sugar in water over gentle heat. Add ginger, chilli, lime, lime juice, and half the mint leaves and bring to the boil. Allow to bubble until it starts to turn a light golden colour and reduces in volume slightly. Cool and strain.

Toss fresh fruit pieces with remaining fresh mint leaves in the syrup and pile high on a platter or inside a glass bowl. Top with extra slices of lime