Orange Salad with Red Wine Syrup and Mint

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Pre-Notes

If you make the syrup in advance and it becomes to thick, you can loosen it up by adding a small amount of warm water.

Ingredients

1. 1 c red wine
2. 1/3 c sugar
3. 6 whole cloves
4. 6 allspice berries
5. 1 cinnamon stick
6. 1 star anise
7. 6 oranges
8. 2 T torn fresh mint

Instructions

1. In skillet, bring wine, sugar, cloves, allspice berries, cinnamon, and star anise, to a boil over high heat, stirring occasionally.
2. Reduce heat to medium.
3. Simmer wine mixture until syrupy, about 10 minutes.
4. Strain syrup; let cool.
5. Cut peel and white pith from oranges.
6. Slice oranges into rounds; arrange on platter.
7. Drizzle with syrup.
8. Garnish with mint.

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