Spring Fruit Salad

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Spring Fruit Salad

 

 

5 large pink grapefruit

1 cup white sugar

1 vanilla bean

1.3 kg (3 lb) seedless watermelon

3 Red Delicious apples

400 g (14 oz) red grapes, removed from stalks

two 250 g (9 oz) punnets strawberries, sliced

 

 

1. Juice 1 grapefruit. Combine sugar and V2 cup grapefruit juice in a

small saucepan. Cut vanilla bean through centre, leaving bean

connected at base. Scrape soft black seeds out of centre. Add seeds

and bean to sugar mixture. Stir over low heat for 5 minutes or until

sugar has dissolved and syrup just comes to the boil. Reduce heat to

low. Simmer, without stirring, for 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Allow

to cool completely.

 

2. Using a knife, remove skin and pith from remaining 4 grapefruit.

Cut into wedges. Remove skin from watermelon. Cut flesh into 2 cm

(3/4 " ) cubes. Cut apples into quarters. Remove cores and discard. Dice

apple.

 

3. Arrange watermelon in a large serving bowl. Top with grapes,

apples, grapefruit and strawberries. Drizzle with syrup. Serve.

 

 

Serves 8.