Salad Recipe ∘ Fruit Salad with Lemon-Cinnamon Syrup

This is a sweet fruit salad intended to be served as a low-fat dessert. The syrup is essential; without it, you just have an ordinary fruit salad, for which you probably don't need a recipe! You can vary the fruits to use what you have on hand. This is especially good with strawberries and melon. Bananas might be too overpowering, though.

Ingredients

• 1 cup white sugar
• ½ cup water
• 3 1-inch strips of lemon zest
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 4 mango, pitted, peeled, and cut into chunks
• 4 white peaches, pitted and cut into bite-sized pieces
• 2 Granny Smith apples - peeled, cored, and sliced
• 4 (6 ounce) containers fresh raspberries
• ¼ cup finely chopped fresh mint
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice

Cooking Directions

1. Place the sugar, water, lemon zest, cinnamon, and 2 tablespoons of lemon juice into a small saucepan. Bring to a boil; reduce heat to medium-low and simmer 10 minutes. Strain the syrup through a mesh strainer; refrigerate until cold.
2. Place the mango, peaches, apple, raspberries, mint, and 2 tablespoons of lemon juice into a mixing bowl. Pour the chilled syrup overtop and gently stir to combine.

Nutrition Facts

• calories149.8
• carbohydrateContent38.4 g
• fatContent0.5 g
• fiberContent5.8 g
• proteinContent1.2 g
• saturatedFatContent0.1 g
• sodiumContent1.6 mg
• sugarContent31.9 g