Spiced Autumn Fruit

I love this spicy fruit warm with yogurt.  However, other members of the family are not keen......hence the name "Minging Fruit".  


Spiced Autumn Fruit

Serves 4

6 ripe plums, stones removed and quartered
3 ripe pears, peeled cored and quartered
2 dessert apples, cored and quartered
250 ml diet lemonade
1 cinnamon stick
2.5 cm (1") fresh root ginger, unpeeled and sliced
1 star anise or 3 cardamom pods cracked

Place all ingredients into a saucepan.  Cover, bring to the boil and simmer gently for 10 mins until the fruit is soft and the juices reduced and syrupy.



You can stick it all in a casserole dish and bake, covered in the oven instead of in a pan.