Fruit Salad With Apple Vanilla Syrup - cooking recipe

Ingredients

Apple Vanilla Syrup
2 cups apple juice
2 slices lemon zest
1/4 vanilla bean
Fruit Salad
2 medium mangoes, peeled and diced
1 pint strawberry, stems removed, quartered
1 pint blueberries

Preparation

Place apple juice and lemon zest in a pot.
Slice the vanilla bean in half, and scape out the seeds into the juice. Add bean pod to the pot as well.
Bring to a boil over medium high heat.
Reduce to medium low and simmer for 30 minutes, or until mixture is syrup-like and reduced to 1/3 cup.
Remove lemon zest and vanilla bean, and cool to room temperature.
Sometimes I strain the cooled syrup through a mesh strained if there are pieces of the bean pod still left behind.
Toss mangoes, strawberries and blueberries with the syrup and serve.