Salady Voankazo (Fruit Salad with Lychees) is a traditional Malagasy (from Madagascar) recipe for a classic fruit salad of pineapple, melon, oranges, strawberries and lychees served in a vanilla-flavoured syrup. The full recipe is presented here and I hope you enjoy this classic Malagasy version of: Fruit Salad with Lychees (Salady Voankazo).
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Ingredients:
150g fresh pineapple, cut into 2cm cubes
120g cantaloupe melon, cut into 12mm dice
150g oranges, peeled and thinly sliced into rounds
70g strawberries, sliced
80g lichees (tinned is fine)
100g sugar
120ml water
1/4 tsp salt
2 tbsp lemon juice
2 tbsp vanilla extract
Method:
Combine the fruit in a 2l glass serving bowl then arrange the lychees on top.
In the meantime combine the sugar, water, salt and lemon juice in a saucepan. Bring to a boil and continue boiling hard for 1 minute before taking off the heat and adding the vanilla extract. Allow to cool to room temperature then chill in the refrigerator for 60 minutes.
Pour the chilled syrup over the fruit and serve with a shaker bottle of vanilla extract.
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