Fruit salad by Cyril Lignac:a fresh and gourmet recipe for the summer

If there is one dessert that children and adults love in summer, besides ice cream, it is the fruit salad ! Healthy and delicious, it allows you to quench your thirst while filling up with good vitamins. In this season the juicy and sweet fruits are not lacking on the stalls of greengrocers. And that's good because the chef Cyril Lignac shared, during his column on RTL , its recipe and its tips for making a tasty fruit salad.

Chef Cyril Lignac's tips for spicing up a fruit salad

Preparing a fruit salad is child's play but for it to be successful it still has to be tasteful. For chef Cyril Lignac one element is important:juice . It flavors and seasons the dessert in the blink of an eye. Depending on the ingredients used, it brings a tangy, sweet or full-bodied note. In his recipe Cyril Lignac presses a small Corsican grapefruit to which he adds aromatic herbs mortared (mint leaves, verbena and lemon balm that tastes like orange) and a passion fruit. The final touch:fresh almonds to give a little crunch to the fruit salad.

Cyril Lignac's ultra tasty fruit salad recipe

Ingredients for 4 people:

• 1 punnet of cherries
• 1 punnet of strawberries
• 4 apricots
• 2 peaches
• 1 Corsican grapefruit
• 1 passion fruit
• 1 lemon
• 1 small bunch of mint leaves
• A few leaves of verbena and lemon balm
• 1 handful of fresh or shelled almonds

Preparation steps:

1. Wash the fruit and cut it into quarters. Remove pits from apricots and peaches.
2. If you opted for fresh almonds, use a knife to open the shell and remove the almond. Peel the thin skin that surrounds the fruit.
3. Wash the fresh herbs and cut the Corsican grapefruit in half.
4. In a container, squeeze the juice from the Corsican grapefruit. With a mortar crush the aromatic herbs. Add the passion fruit.
5. Grate some lemon zest into the juice. Mix.
6. In a salad bowl, add the cut fruit and pour over the prepared juice.
7. Chill for a few minutes then enjoy!

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