Tropical fruits with ice and salty-sweet coconut milk

Name: Tropical fruits with ice and salty-sweet coconut milk
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 400 ml coconut milk; Seasonal fruit, such as 4 mangosteens, ½ papaya, 1 small mango, cut into bite-sized pieces; 1 young coconut, flesh removed; To serve: crushed ice; 1 kaffir lime leaf, very finely sliced; Palm sugar syrup; 100 gm light palm sugar, crushed; Juice of 1 lime

Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for tropical fruits with ice and salty-sweet coconut milk.

Serves 4

Styling byLisa Featherby

Styling byEmma Knowles

Styling byGeraldine Muñoz

Ingredients

400 ml coconut milk

Seasonal fruit, such as 4 mangosteens, ½ papaya, 1 small mango, cut into bite-sized pieces

1 young coconut, flesh removed

To serve: crushed ice

1 kaffir lime leaf, very finely sliced

Palm sugar syrup

100 gm light palm sugar, crushed

Juice of 1 lime

Method

Main

1.For palm sugar syrup, pour 60ml boiling water over palm sugar in a bowl, stand for 2 minutes, then stir to dissolve. Set aside to cool, then add lime juice.

2.Stir coconut milk and a large pinch of sea salt in a bowl to combine. Divide fruit and coconut flesh among serving bowls, top with lots of shaved ice, drizzle with salted coconut milk and palm sugar syrup to taste, scatter with kaffir lime leaf and serve.

Styling by Lisa Featherby

Styling by Emma Knowles

Styling by Geraldine Muñoz