Cooking for fitness – Spiced fruit salad with mint and cashew cream

Spiced fruit salad with mint and cashew cream

Serves 4-6

1 cup grapes, halved
2 cups pineapple diced
2 cups watermelon, sliced
1 punnet strawberries, halved
1 punnet blue berries, whole
Zest of 1 lime
300ml of water
300g logical, brown or palm sugar
1 stick of cinnamon
1 tbsp fresh ginger, sliced
1 stalk of lemon grass bruised
1 cardamom pod
Hand full of mint leaves
Good handful of roasted cashews, chopped
Natural yoghurt to serve (optional)

1. Place all the fruit and lime zest into a large bowl and set aside in the fridge.
2. Into a small saucepan place the sugar with the water, spices, ginger and lemon grass and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for 5 minutes until syrupy. Pour the syrup over the salad and allow to cool.
3. Serve garnished with fresh mint chopped roasted cashews and natural yoghurt.

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