A fruit salad can make a perfect end to a meal and a Green Fruit Salad is visually so much more refined than a “chuck it all in” kinda fruit salad. To bring this recipe bang up to date, I’ve tossed the green fruit salad with a chilli ginger syrup that really makes the flavour zing out.

Green Fruit Salad with Chilli Ginger Syrup

Name: Green Fruit Salad with Chilli Ginger Syrup
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 1 green apple (, cored and sliced); 1 pear (, cored and sliced); 1 honeydew melon (, seeded halved and cut into cubes); 150 g green grapes; 2 kiwi fruit (, peeled and sliced); 100 g sugar; 150 ml water; 2 thinly pared strips of lime; 1 piece stem ginger (, sliced into sticks); 1 tbsp syrup from the jar; ½ fresh green chilli (, seeded and chopped); lemon balm or mint springs ((optional))

This is an old favourite of mine and like all fruit salads, it is really easy to make. Sometimes I just toss all the prepared fruit in a little apple juice but, to give this recipe a little bit more of a kick, I have tossed the fruit in a chilli ginger syrup. The hint of heat from the chilli and the ginger compliment the cool fruit and excite the tastes buds – lifting this humble fruit salad to make it a really tasty dessert, fit for the end of any meal.

Not just for Dessert

If I’m serving a fruit salad as part of an everyday meal, I serve it on its own. Not that we eat dessert every day, but you know what I mean. At the end of a special meal, I am tempted to serve it alongside a scoop of good vanilla ice cream or a dollop of lightly whipped double cream or crème fraîche. I also often like to eat fruit for breakfast, and somehow a bowl of fruit salad seems so much more substantial than a single piece of fruit. Add a bit of natural yoghurt and it sets you up for the day.

Close up of single serving of green fruit salad with chilli ginger syrup with a dollop of cream on top. A little of the serving bowl showing and spoons on the side

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