Sweet fruit salad is a great substitute for traditional desserts. Fruits are low in calories, rich in nutrients and promote good digestion. Include oranges in the salad - they give the dessert a spicy sourness and go well with other fruits.
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You will need
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- Hot Citrus Salad:
- 4 oranges;
- 1 pomelo;
- 1 pink grapefruit;
- 1 yellow grapefruit;
- 1 lime;
- 50 g of sugar;
- 2.5 cm ginger root;
- 50 ml of water;
- sprig of mint.
- Exotic Chinese style salad:
- 2 small oranges;
- 1 peach;
- 1 banana
- 12 pcs gooseberries;
- 6 pcs large strawberries;
- a bunch of black seedless grapes;
- 300 ml of water;
- 3 pods of cardamom;
- 1 stick of cinnamon;
- 5 pieces. cloves;
- 4 things. star anise;
- 0.5 teaspoon anise powder;
- 3 sprigs of mint;
- 0.5 lemons;
- 75 g of sugar.
Instruction manual
1
Try making an unusual hot citrus salad. To make the taste of the dish richer, use several types of citrus fruits at once - oranges, pink and yellow grapefruits, pomelo, limes. Cut a thin strip of zest from each fruit and chop it with thin strips. Cut the tops and bottoms of the fruits, place the fruits vertically and remove the peel, leading the knife from top to bottom. Turn the fruit on its side and carefully cut it into circles, making cuts near the membranes. Remove the hard partitions.
2
Squeeze the juice from two oranges. Peel the ginger root and chop finely. Pour water into a saucepan, add ginger and sugar. Stirring, bring the mixture to a boil and cook for 1 minute. Remove the ginger from the syrup and place the straws from the zest. Cook for another 1 minute, remove the zest and remove the pan from the heat.
3
Add fruit juice to the syrup, mix and lay out the fruit slices. Bring the mixture to a boil, remove from heat, put the fruits in a bowl, pour them with syrup. Serve dessert immediately by decorating it with fresh mint leaves.
4
The Chinese-style fruit salad is also very original. Its feature is saturated syrup for pouring. Slightly crush the cardamom pods with a knife blade, pick the leaves from the mint branches, squeeze the juice from half the lemon. Put the ingredients in a pan, pour 300 ml of water, add a stick of cinnamon, anise stars and ground anise, cloves and sugar. Bring the mixture to a boil, boil for 1 minute, remove from the stove and cool.
5
Peel banana and oranges. Cut the banana into circles, sort the oranges into slices, remove the films and divide each slice into two. Large gooseberries, halves of strawberries, orange and peach slices, banana slices, grapes. Pour the assorted fruit syrup and clean in the cold. Before serving, decorate the salad with mint leaves.