This one is a wintery cosy one. Lots of lovely warm spices. It is very flexible and you can easily change the flavours in the syrup by adding more or less spices. Have a try!⁠

Ingredients:

• 100 grams of Buderim Crystallised Ginger⁠
• 2 sticks of cinnamon⁠
• 3 dried cloves⁠
• 10 coriander seeds⁠
• 3 cups of water ⁠
• 2 tablespoons honey ⁠
• 2 fresh star fruit – sliced roughly into 4 slices per star fruit.⁠
• 2 tablespoons of a rich dark brown sugar (I used palm sugar)⁠

Method:

1. 1. Put the ginger, spices and water into a pot, bring to a boil and then simmer for around 30 minutes. Taste the syrup and adjust. You can easily add more spice or water to it accordingly, just simmer a bit longer.⁠
2. While that is cooking, slice the star fruit and place on a lined baking tray. Top each slice with some sugar. Place it under your oven grill (about 15-20 cm below) until the sugar caramelizes and bubbles. ⁠
3. When the syrup is ready, remove from heat, strain and stir in the honey. In a bowl stack up 3 or 4 hot grilled star fruit slices and pour over some syrup. Serve while hot.

Note – extra syrup can be kept in the refrigerator and poured over porridge. This is really good too!⁠