Best Orange Fruit Salad With Five Spice Powder Recipes

FIVE-SPICE FALL FRUIT SALAD

Five-Spice Fall Fruit Salad image

Provided by Diana Yen

Yield Makes 6 to 8 servings

Number Of Ingredients 8

Ingredients

3/4 cup honey
1/2 vanilla bean, split and scraped
1 1-inch piece ginger, thinly sliced
1 teaspoon Chinese five-spice powder
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
5 black plums, pitted and sliced
5 red plums, pitted and sliced
8 figs

Steps:

Place 3/4 cup water in a medium saucepan. Add the honey, vanilla bean pod with seeds, ginger, and five-spice powder. Bring to a boil and stir until honey dissolves. Set aside to cool completely, and stir in lemon juice. Discard ginger and vanilla bean pod.
In a large bowl, pour cooled syrup over the sliced plums. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and chill for at least 2 hours, or overnight in the refrigerator.
An hour before serving, slice figs in half and gently fold into plum mixture. To serve, use a slotted spoon to ladle fruit into a serving bowl.

SWEET AND SPICY FRUIT SALAD

Sweet and Spicy Fruit Salad image

Most fruit salads consist of little more than diced fruit mixed in a bowl. They are simple and satisfying, but not necessarily special. This one is a more sophisticated take. It calls for a star anise- and chile-infused simple syrup, which adds sweetness and musky, spicy complexity. In addition to fruit, herbs - tarragon and basil - are tossed in for freshness. You can use whatever fruit you like as long as it is sweet and ripe. Eat the salad as it is, or top it with either mascarpone for a mellow, creamy note, or crumbled ricotta salata for something savory and bracing. Feel free to play around with other toppings as well. In the mellow category are fresh ricotta, crème fraîche, sour cream or ice cream. For something on the salty side, try shaved Parmesan, crumbled feta or goat cheese.

Provided by Melissa Clark

Categories salads and dressings, side dish

Time 25m

Yield 8 to 12 servings

Number Of Ingredients 9

Ingredients

1/3 cup granulated sugar
1 serrano chile, halved
1 whole dried star anise
7 to 8 cups mixed cut fruit, like kiwi, peaches, plums, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, mango, pineapple, oranges, grapefruit, pears or bananas
2 teaspoons chopped tarragon
2 teaspoons chopped basil
Flaky sea salt, to taste
Black pepper, to taste
Mascarpone or crumbled ricotta salata, for garnish (optional)

Steps:

Place sugar, 3/4 cup water, chile and star anise in a small pot and bring to a boil. Simmer for 10 to 15 minutes until the mixture is as thick as maple syrup and spicy tasting. Strain syrup. (Syrup can be made up to 1 week in advance; store in the refrigerator.)
Toss fruit with half of the sugar syrup, the tarragon and the basil. Add more syrup to taste, depending on how sweet and spicy you want the salad. Season very lightly with salt and pepper. If desired, add dollops of mascarpone or crumbled ricotta salata on top.

Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 102, UnsaturatedFat 0 grams, Carbohydrate 26 grams, Fat 1 gram, Fiber 2 grams, Protein 1 gram, SaturatedFat 0 grams, Sodium 307 milligrams, Sugar 24 grams