winter fruit salad

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I love this fruit salad. I have made it a few times during the holidays, and it is always a big hit. The star anise flavor really comes out. Definitely make it at least a day in advance so the flavors have time to develop.

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I really wanted to love this recipe. Its beautiful, it uses seasonally appropriate fruit (pears, apples, and dried fruit), and interesting. It produced a heavenly aroma, and gave my refrigerator an exotic aroma that I found irresistible. Unfortunately, I found its strong flavor to be overwhelming.

The first step in preparing this recipe is to heat water, sugar, star anise, and vanilla bean. I used the suggested 3 star anise, but I think I would have liked it better had I only used 1 or 2. The recipe also instructs you to incubate the fruit overnight. I think instead you could make the syrup in the morning, and marinate your fruit for only an hour or two.

The sprinkling of pomegranate on top made this really beautiful.

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