Ambrosia With Chantilly Cream
- 1 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup fresh mint, divided
- 3 navel oranges, peeled and sectioned
- 3 blood oranges, peeled and sectioned
- 2 grapefruit, peeled and sectioned
- 6 clementines, peeled and sectioned
- Bring sugar and 1/2 cup water to a boil; stir until sugar dissolves. Boil 5 minutes. Remove from heat; steep 1/2 cup mint 20 minutes. Strain syrup; discard solids. Cool syrup completely.
- Toss together citrus sections and 1/4 cup syrup. Cover and chill 8 hours, stirring occasionally. (Reserve remaining syrup for another use.) Chop remaining 1/4 cup mint; toss with fruit. Serve with Chantilly Cream.
- Make-Ahead Tip
- Fresh Mint Syrup: Steep fresh mint in hot sugar syrup to make a delightful simple syrup up to a week before Christmas. Section the citrus, and toss it with syrup the day before.
sugar, fresh mint, oranges, oranges, clementines
Taken from www.myrecipes.com/recipe/ambrosia-chantilly-cream (may not work)