Tropical Fruit Salad with Chilli, Star Anise, Cinnamon & Lime Dressing
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Serves: 4
 
Ingredients
  • 90g/3¼oz/heaped ⅓ cup caster sugar
  • 5cm/2in cinnamon stick
  • 2 star anise
  • ¼ tsp chilli flakes
  • juice of 2 limes
  • seeds and pulp of 3 passion fruit
  • 1 mango, peeled, pitted and roughly chopped
  • ½ pineapple, peeled, cored and roughly chopped
  • 1 papaya, peeled, deseeded and roughly chopped
Method
  1. Put the sugar, cinnamon, star anise and chilli flakes into a large pan with 250ml/9fl oz/1 cup water and bring to the boil over a high heat. Stir continuously for 1 minute, or until all the sugar has dissolved, then reduce the heat to medium and simmer, shaking the pan occasionally, for 10 minutes until the liquid has reduced to a thin syrup. Transfer the syrup to a mixing bowl and set aside to cool. Remove the cinnamon to stop its flavour overpowering the dressing, but reserve for decoration.
  2. Once the syrup has cooled, pour in the lime juice and passion fruit and mix well. Add the mango, pineapple and papaya, then toss together so that the spicy, sweet-sour flavours of the dressing coat the fruit. Serve at room temperature or chilled.
Recipe by Grace Cheetham at https://www.gracecheetham.com/tropical-fruit-salad-chilli-star-anise-cinnamon-lime-dressing