Life All Travel Destinations Entertaining Food All Chefs Recipes Restaurants Wine Pairing Food News Wine All Wine 101 Wine News Wine Regions Wine Varietals Wineries Home > Selector Magazine > Food > Ed Halmagyi’s fruit salad with thyme-vanilla sugar and extra virgin olive oil Food Ed Halmagyi’s fruit salad with thyme-vanilla sugar and extra virgin olive oil Preparation time 10 Minutes Cooking time Serves 4 INGREDIENTS ½ bunch thyme leaves 1 vanilla bean ¼ cup castor sugar ½ cup icing sugar 6 cups mixed fruits ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil Lemon balm leaves, to garnish METHOD 1. Combine the thyme leaves, scraped seeds of the vanilla bean and castor sugar in a mortar and pound until fine. Scatter on a lined tray, then set aside to dry. Mix with the icing sugar. 2. Arrange the fruits on plates, dust with the flavoured icing sugar, then drizzle with extra virgin olive oil and scatter with lemon balm leaves. Food Preparation Time 10 Minutes Serves 4 Shop Dessert Wine You might also like Food Feast with the Purbrick Family of Tahbilk Words by The Purbrick Family on 11 Jul 2018 Food Alla Wolf-Tasker: Lakehouse Legend Words by Mark Hughes on 3 Jul 2018 Food Poached chicken breast salad Discover more Dessert recipes Food Dave Pynt And The Fires Of Creation Words by Nick Ryan on 7 Jan 2025 Food Chocolate soufflé with Shiraz syrup Food Madeleines with chocolate cherry sauce & candied orange praline