Fruit Salad With Apple Vanilla Syrup

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 2 cups apple juice
• 2 slices lemon zest
• 1/4 vanilla bean
• 2 medium mangoes, peeled and diced
• 1 pint strawberry, stems removed, quartered
• 1 pint blueberries

Recipe

• 1 place apple juice and lemon zest in a pot.
• 2 slice the vanilla bean in half, and scape out the seeds into the juice. add bean pod to the pot as well.
• 3 bring to a boil over medium high heat.
• 4 reduce to medium low and simmer for 30 minutes, or until mixture is syrup-like and reduced to 1/3 cup.
• 5 remove lemon zest and vanilla bean, and cool to room temperature.
• 6 sometimes i strain the cooled syrup through a mesh strained if there are pieces of the bean pod still left behind.
• 7 toss mangoes, strawberries and blueberries with the syrup and serve.