Chinese Chilled Melon Fruit Salad

Ingredients:

• 1 cup water
• 4 ounces rock sugar, or 6 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 2 tablespoons mango juice, fresh or canned
• 1 cup mango slices, fresh or canned
• 1 cup sliced papaya
• 1 peach or apple, sliced
• 2 kiwi fruit, stems cut off, pared and cut into thin slices
• 1 tangerine, peeled and separated into individual segments
• 4 to 8 lychees, longans or fresh strawberries, optional
• 4 hollowed out honeydew melon halves

Direction:

• Bring the water, rock sugar and mango juice to a boil over medium-low heat, stirring to dissolve the rock sugar. Cool.
• Toss all of the fruit except for the honeydew with the sugar syrup mixture. Spoon 1 to 1 /4 cups into each prepared honeydew melon half. Chill until ready to serve.

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