This fruit salad is great as a pareve dessert, or use it as a topping for ice cream or yogurt.
Asian Pear Fruit Salad
This fruit salad is great as a pareve dessert, or use it as a topping for ice cream or yogurt.
Servings
8 Servings
Ingredients
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ whole vanilla bean split lengthwise
- 5 cardamom pods
- ¼ piece fresh ginger
- Zest of one lemon
- 4 dried figs or dates quartered
- ½ cup dried cranberries
- 3 Asian Pears
- 1 tablespoon shredded coconut
Instructions
- Fill a medium saucepan with 2 cups water. Add sugar, vanilla bean, cardamom pods, ginger, and lemon zest. Bring to a boil, and cook until sugar is dissolved. Let it cool a few minutes (it should still be hot,) then stir in dried figs and cranberries. Let it cool completely.
- Meanwhile, peel and core pears. Slice thinly lengthwise or chop. Place in a large bowl, and toss with the lemon juice.
- Once the syrup with dried fruit has cooled, pour it over pears. Cover and chill it for 30 minutes or overnight.
- Before serving, strain out some of the liquid. Sprinkle coconut over top and serve.
Looks like a typo, sorry about that should be 1/2 of a whole vanilla bean. If you can’t get fresh vanilla beans or paste just use a bit of extract.
can you explain what “1/2 cup vanilla bean split lengthwise” means
Can you explain what “1/2 cup vanilla bean, split lengthwise” means?
what does 1/2 cup vanilla bean mean? i dont understand the unit of measurement