Tropical spiced fruit salad

Name: Tropical spiced fruit salad
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 2 cloves; 3 star anise; a small handful of mint leaves; 3 black peppercorns; 1 papaya; 100 g physalis; 2–3 tbsp mint leaves, roughly chopped; 1 pineapple; 2 passion fruit; 2 kiwi fruit; 1 mango; 1 lime; 100 g caster sugar

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Prue

By Prue Leith

Published 2018

About

I sometimes serve this on Christmas night, when everyone is overfull of turkey and plum pud. Fruit salads can be boring in winter without our wonderful summer fruits, but a mix of tropical fruit with a hint of festive spice is great.

Ingredients

For the syrup

1 lime
100 g caster sugar
3 black peppercorns

Christmas
Gluten-free
Vegan
Summer
Winter

Method

For the syrup, thinly pare the rind from the lime and put it in a small saucepan. Squeeze the lime juice into the pan and add the other syrup ingredients and 150 ml water. Bring to the boil, then simmer for 6–8 minutes until the volume is reduced by roughly half and the cons