Something For The Weekend

Here’s a great fruit salad recipe that is delicious as a dessert but I think equally good as a breakfast or brunch dish at the weekend when there is perhaps a little more time to make and more to savour it. Fabulous with a spoonful of thick Greek yogurt or quark (and go the whole hog by sprinkling with some lemon zest and ground nutmeg. Now that’s what I call an ‘Easy Like Sunday Morning’ dish. I used an array of South African fruits in season at the moment.

SOUTH AFRICAN SPICED WARM FRUIT SALAD

Ingredients

METRIC/US

500 g/1 lb plums, halved and stoned/pitted

300 g/11 oz apricots, stoned/pitted and quartered

2 pears, cored and sliced

2 peaches, stoned/pitted and sliced

300 ml/1¼ cups unsweetened apple juice

50 g/1/3 cup sultanas/seedless white raisins or seedless raisins/seeded raisins

1 cinnamon stick

generous pinch of ground nutmeg

300 g/scant 1½ cups Greek fat-free yogurt

2 tsp grated fresh root ginger

1 tsp grated lemon zest

2 tsp clear honey

lemon zest and ground nutmeg to sprinkle to serve

Method

Put the plums, apricots, pears and peaches in a large pan with the apple juice, sultanas or raisins, cinnamon stick and ground nutmeg. Simmer gently for 8-10 minutes. Cool until just warm, then remove and discard the cinnamon stick.
Put the yogurt into a serving bowl and stir in the ginger, lemon zest and honey.
Serve the warm fruit salad with the uogurt mixture, sprinkled with a little lemon zest and ground nutmeg.

SERVES 4

WLS PORTION: ½

V suitable for Vegetarians

CALORIES PER PORTION: 242

PROTEIN: 10.3g

CARBOHYDRATE: 50.5g

FAT: 0.4g

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