Exotic fruits you'll love

When ripe, the star fruit should be fragrant and sweet or possibly tart (the flavour changes depending on the variety). It's usually served as a dessert fruit because it has such a striking appearance as part of a salad or as a garnish, but in Chinese and Indian cultures the unripe fruit is also cooked as a vegetable.

Ugli fruit
This Jamaican mandarin-grapefruit hybrid is rather unfairly named, as it's full of flavour, tasting somewhat like its mandarin parent with hints of pineapple and honey. The skin is baggy and thick but peels off easily to leave segments of fruit that also separate with ease. Use it as you would grapefruit in fruit salads or try an ugli fruit spin on the classic recipe of oranges in caramel.

Recipe:
Ugli Fruit in Caramel Sauce

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