Recipe courtesy of Michele Urvater
Citrus Salad
- Level: Easy
- Yield: 4 servings
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- Nutritional Analysis
- Per Serving
- Serving Size
- 1 of 4 servings
- Calories
- 419
- Total Fat
- 1
- Saturated Fat
- 0
- Carbohydrates
- 87
- Dietary Fiber
- 8
- Sugar
- 69
- Protein
- 4
- Cholesterol
- 0
- Sodium
- 15
- Total: 40 min
- Prep: 40 min
Ingredients
2 grapefruit, preferably pink
6 navel oranges
2 whole bananas
Fresh mint leaves
Spiced Syrup, recipe follows
Spiced Syrup:
2 cups white wine
2 cups water
1/2 cup good flavored honey
Directions
- Cut citrus fruit into supremes, making sure to reserve juices.
- On dessert plates, alternate grapefruit and orange supremes in an outside circle, leaving room in center for bananas.
- Combine juices which came out of grapefruit and oranges when you peeled and cut them into supremes, with some flavored syrup.
- Peel bananas, cut into thin rounds and center them inside oranges and grapefruit. Drizzle syrup over citrus and bananas and garnish with fresh mint.
Spiced Syrup:
- Heat wine, water, honey and cheesecloth bag and simmer, uncovered for 20 to 30 minutes or until 1 1/2 cups of liquid remain. Remove and discard cheesecloth.
- Use to spoon over citrus, bananas, kiwi, fresh apricots, peaches and nectarines
- In a cheesecloth, tie 12 crushed cardamom pods, whole coriander seeds, whole cloves and allspice or anything else you really like.