fruit salad with ginger syrup recipes

- For ginger syrup
3 cups water
2 cups sugar
2 cups thinly sliced fresh ginger (1/2 lb
- from a 10-inch piece), left unpeeled

For fruit salad
4 cups (1-inch pieces) summer fruit (such as mixed berries, melons, peaches

- vanilla ice cream(optional)
- 1 Tbsp. chopped crystallized ginger
- 3 kiwi fruit, peeled and cut into wedges
- 1 banana, peeled and sliced
- 1 mango, peeled and cut into cubes
- 1 medium papaya
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 2 cardamom pods, crushed
- 3 whole star anise
- 6 quarter-sized slices fresh ginger, crushed
- 1 lemon, thinly sliced
- 1 cup water
- 2 cups sugar

- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1-2 kiwi fruit
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 cup honeydew melon
- 1/2 lb red seedless grapes
- 1/2 pint strawberries
- 1 cup pineapples
- 1 cup cantaloupe
- 1 vanilla bean
- 1 ruby grapefruits
- 1 mango
- 1/2 pint blueberries

- 1 teaspoon finely chopped fresh mint
- 2 passion fruit
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped ginger in syrup
- 1/2 watermelon
- 1 honeydew melon
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/2 cup cantaloupes

- 4 kiwi
- 1 apple
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 fresh mango
- 1 teaspoon grated ginger
- 1 1/2 cups strawberries
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 slice lime peel
- 2 cups water
- 1 large orange
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- 1 fresh papaya
- 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- 2 cups diced melon
- 1/2 cup pineapples