Chinese Fruit Salad

Submitted by dicentra

"This comes from 1000 Great Recipes. Posting for ZWT3. I love fruit salads b/c you can have them for breakfast, lunch or dessert!"

 

• Ready In: 20mins
• Ingredients: 8
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 118.29 ml sugar
• 1 lime, juice and zest of
• 396.89 g can lychees in heavy syrup
• 1 mango, stoned and sliced
• 1 apple, cored and sliced
• 2 bananas, sliced
• 1 star fruit, sliced (optional)
• 4.92 ml sesame seeds

directions

1. Place the sugar in a small saucepan with the lime zest and 1 ¼ cups water.
2. Heat gently until the sugar dissolves completely, then increase the heat and boil gently for about 7-8 minutes.
3. Remove the saucepan from the heat and leave on one side to cool the syrup.
4. Drain the lychees into a jug and pour the juice into the cooled lime syrup with the lime juice.
5. Place the fruit in a bowl and toss gently with the syrup. Chill for 1 hour before serving.