Orange Fruit Salad With Five Spice Powder Recipes

FIVE-SPICE FALL FRUIT SALAD

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.

ORANGE FRUIT SALAD WITH FIVE-SPICE POWDER

Steps:

• Slice one pineapple half. Arrange all sliced fruits on a platter. Chop remaining pineapple half and half of remaining orange; scatter around platter with raspberries. Top with passionfruit seeds.
• Squeeze juice from remaining orange half over fruit; sprinkle with five-spice powder and salt. Serve immediately, or wrap in plastic and refrigerate up to 4 hours.

ORANGE FIVE-SPICE DRESSING

Steps:

• In a small container combne the juice, pectin, vinegar, soy sauce, sugar and five-spice powder.
• Cover and refrigerator until well chilled.
• Shake and serve over fresh salad greens or mixed fruit.

EXOTIC FRUIT SALAD

Steps:

• Whisk sugar, lemon juice, vanilla, and Chinese 5-spice powder; adjust to taste, adding more or less ingredients. Add mangoes and raspberries and toss together.
• Just before serving arrange kiwis in a circle on outside edge of each of 4 dessert plates, arrange an inside circle of banana slices overlapping kiwis, leaving a space in center of dessert plate. Spoon macerated raspberries and mangoes in the middle; dust with confectioners' sugar and garnish with mint leaves.