FESTIVE FRUIT SALAD WITH BRANDY SNAP
Ingredients
- 60g/2¼oz butter
- plus extra for greasing
- 2 tbsp caster sugar
- 2 heaped tbsp golden syrup
- 4 tbsp plain flour
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- 1 tsp brandy
- 2 tbsp chopped pistachios
- 1 orange
- juice only
- 1 lime
- juice only
- 1 lemon
- juice only
- 1 mango
- cut into cubes
- 4 clementines
- separated into segments
- 1 pomegranate
- seeds only
- 6 cape gooseberries (physalis)
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 150C/300F/Gas 2. Grease two baking trays with butter.
- For the brandy snaps
- melt the butter with the sugar and golden syrup in a saucepan. As soon as it starts to bubble
- add the flour
- ginger
- brandy and pistachios and stir until well combined.
- Using a teaspoon
- place six walnut-sized blobs of the mixture onto the buttered baking tray. No need to flatten
- as they will spread naturally.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes until golden-brown. Leave to cool on the baking tray for five minutes
- and then lift them off with a palette knife. Lay them on a rolling pin to set.
- For the fruit salad
- combine the orange
- lime and lemon juice in a large bowl.
- Add the mango and the clementines
- scatter over the pomegranate seeds and serve with the brandy snaps and a few physalis.

