Here are some great tips for making this dish. Remember them for your other kitchen adventures as well. They will surely come in handy!
- This is a perfect trick to make under-ripe fruit taste better. The hot syrup bruises the fruit, making it taste sweeter.
- Use a fork when extracting juice from a lime. The fork breaks up all the little membranes, giving you the maximum amount of juice from the fruit.
- When peeling ginger, rub the skin with the back of a fork or a spoon. It rubs right off.
- Wait to add the lime zest until after the the sugar has dissolved into the syrup. That way it will keep its green color.
Yield: Serves 6-8 folks
Ingredients
- half a honeydew, cut into bite-size pieces
- half a cantaloupe, cut into bite-size pieces
- 1 pint blackberries, washed
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 cup water
- 1/2 pound ginger, peeled and diced fine
- 4 fresh limes zested and squeezed
- pinch of salt
Cooking Directions
- For the Ginger Lime Syrup, combine sugar, water, ginger, lime juice and salt and bring to a boil. Reduce and simmer until the mix reaches a syrupy consistency. Chill to room temperature.
- Add lime zest to syrup and toss syrup together with fruit. Adjust seasoning as needed. Allow to sit overnight so flavors develop.