Winter Fruit Salad - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup lemon juice
1 strip lemon peel
2 None star anise
1 None vanilla bean, split, seeds scraped
3 None pears (or apples), peeled, cored and sliced
1 None seedless mandarin orange, segments separated
8 None dried apricots, halved
4.5 oz frozen raspberries
None None Greek yogurt, to serve

Preparation

In a large saucepan, combine 1/2 cup water, sugar, lemon juice and peel, star anise and vanilla seeds. Stir over low heat until the sugar dissolves.
Add the pears, mandarin orange and apricots and bring to a simmer. Cook, covered, for 4-5 mins until the fruit softens slightly. Stir in the raspberries, then remove from the heat and allow to cool slightly.
Serve the fruit and syrup in bowls topped with yogurt.