Melon Fruit Salad With Ginger & Pomegranate

This Melon Fruit Salad With Ginger & Pomegranate makes for the perfect sweet starter or light dessert. Ginger is an essential ingredient in Japanese savoury cooking, but it also adds a refreshing flavour to the syrup to flavour this simple melon fruit salad.

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Course: Breakfast, Dessert

Cuisine: Japanese

Keyword: fruit salad, melon, pomegranate

Servings:

Author: Fiona Uyema

Ingredients

1 Whole honeydew melon peeled and cut into bite-size cubes
1 Pomegranate seeds removed
Mint leaves to garnish

For the syrup

90 ml Water
75 g Caster sugar
40 g Ginger peeled and thinly sliced

Instructions

Place all the ingredients for the syrup in a saucepan and bring to the boil. Immediately reduce to a simmer for about 10 minutes. Take off the heat and set aside to cool. Once cooled, remove the ginger pieces from the syrup (these can be added later as a topping to the salad if you like).
Put the melon and pomegranate seeds into a large serving bowl.
Pour the syrup over the fruit and mix well together.
Garnish with mint leaves. Serve immediately or store in the fridge.