Spiced Fruit Salad

Ingredients

3/4 cup Heinen’s Honey
1 vanilla bean, split and scraped
1 1-inch piece ginger, thinly sliced
1 teaspoon Chinese five-spice powder
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
5 black plums, pitted and sliced
5 red plums, pitted and sliced
8 figs

Instructions

Place 3/4 cup water in a medium saucepan. Add the honey, vanilla bean pod with seeds, ginger, and five-spice powder. Bring to a boil and stir until honey dissolves. Set aside to cool completely, and stir in lemon juice. Discard ginger and vanilla bean pod.

In a large bowl, pour cooled syrup over the sliced plums. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and chill for at least 2 hours, or overnight in the refrigerator.
An hour before serving, slice figs in half and gently fold into plum mixture. To serve, use a slotted spoon to ladle fruit into a serving bowl.

Tip – Syrup can be made in advance and stored in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 2 days.

By Heinen's Grocery Store

In 1929, Joe Heinen opened the doors of a small butcher shop on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio, aiming to establish himself as the city’s purveyor of quality meats. As customers came into Heinen’s new shop for their meat purchases, they began asking him to carry groceries as well. Joe added homemade peanut butter, pickles and donuts and by 1933, business had grown enough to include a line of produce and canned goods. Heinen’s Grocery Store was born.

Spiced Fruit Salad