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Cardamom oranges and grapefruit

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Total time: 15 min • Prep: 10 min • Cook: 5 min • Serves: 4 • Difficulty: Easy

Jewel-like slices of citrus are drizzled with a spicy-sweet syrup flavoured with aromatic cardamom.

Ingredients

Pine nuts

2 tbs

Orange(s)

4 small

Grapefruit

2 whole, (ruby)

Caster sugar

2 tbs

Cardamom

½ tsp, ground

Fresh mint

1 tsp, sprigs to garnish

Instructions

1

Heat a medium non-stick frying pan over medium heat. Add pine nuts and cook, stirring, for 1–2 minutes or until golden. Remove from pan.

2

Juice 1 orange. Using a small serrated knife, cut the rind and pith from the remaining oranges and grapefruit. Cut oranges into 1cm-thick slices. Cut grapefruit segments from between the membranes.

3

Add orange juice, sugar and cardamom to the frying pan and cook, stirring, over low heat for 1 minute or until sugar is dissolved. Bring to the boil and cook for 30 seconds. Remove from heat. Add orange slices and grapefruit segments and toss to coat in syrup.

4

Spoon fruit into serving dishes and drizzle with syrup. Serve sprinkled with toasted pine nuts and mint leaves.

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