My Favourite Fruit Salad

Ingredients

Syrup:

• 1 vanilla pod
• 2 ounces (55 milliliters) water
• 6 tablespoons sugar
• Grapefruit juice, reserved from grapefruit
• Small handful blueberries
• 4 strawberries, halved
• 2 yellow and red plums, stones removed and cut into 1/8ths
• Small handful raspberries
• 1/2 a pink grapefruit, segmented and juice reserved
• 1/2 orange, segmented
• 1/2 melon, cubed
• 1/4 bottle Prosecco wine, chilled
• Creme fraiche, for serving

Directions

Remove the vanilla seeds from the pod and put seeds and pod into a small pan. Add the water, sugar and reserved grapefruit juice. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer to make a syrup. Put in the refrigerator until thoroughly chilled.

Toss the prepared fruit in the chilled syrup. Spoon onto plates and pour over the chilled Prosecco. Serve with creme fraiche.