Summer salad recipe: Darina Allen's summer fruit salad with sweet geranium leaves

This salad takes just 15 minutes to prepare 

Summer Fruit Salad with Sweet Geranium Leaves

Summer Fruit Salad with Sweet Geranium Leaves

recipe by:Darina Allen

I discovered this recipe which has now become a perennial favourite quite by accident a few Summers ago as I raced to make a pudding in a hurry with the ingredients I had at that moment.

Preparation Time

 15 mins

Total Time

 15 mins

Course

 Dessert

Ingredients

• 110g raspberries

• 110g loganberries

• 110g redcurrants

• 110g blackcurrants

• 110g small Strawberries

• 110g blueberries

• 110g fraises du bois or wild strawberries

• 110g blackberries

• Syrup:

• 325g sugar

• 450ml water

• 6-8 large sweet geranium leaves

Method

1. Put all the freshly picked berries into a white China or glass bowl. Put the sugar, water and sweet geranium leaves into a stainless steel saucepan and bring slowly to the boil, stirring until the sugar dissolves. Boil for just 2 minutes.

2. Cool for 4-5 minutes then pour the hot syrup over the fruit and allow to macerate for several hours. Remove the geranium leaves. Serve chilled, with softly whipped cream or vanilla ice-cream or on its own. Garnish with a few fresh sweet geranium leaves.