How to Make Fruit Salad
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Want the perfect dessert that you'll love without tipping the scales and can make in under ten minutes? Try a fruit salad!
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Have a delicious day!
Steps
- Remember that fruit salads are often creative -- you decide which fruits to use and how much. Some tastyfruits are berries (strawberries, raspberries,blueberries, blackberries,) apples, bananas, cantaloupe, grapes, honeydew melons, grapefruits, kiwis, mangoes, nectarines, oranges, and peaches.
- Wash all your fruits.
- Put all grapes and berries (except strawberries) in a large mixing bowl.
- Chop all other fruits into bite-size pieces. For reference, each piece should be a little bigger than your thumbnail.
- Arrange them on a platter, put into individual bowls or Tupperware, or serve out of the bowl (coat the bowl with lemon juice to naturally sweeten the fruit-this will retard any browning [oxidizing] as well due to the citric acid and ascorbic acid - FruitFresh or crushed Vitamin C tablets will do the same thing).
- Serve at room temperature or slightly chilled. Enjoy!
Tips
- For a treat, serve over ice cream or add some whipped cream.
- Try adding in a little bit of maple syrup- it's delicious!
- Not sure which fruits will taste good together? Don't worry! Throw in a few fruits and it'll taste great. As a general guide, berries taste good with everything, strawberries and kiwis are a common pair, and Mandarin oranges add flavor to anything.
- If you happen to use watermelon, make it into a bowl to hold the salad - cut it lengthwise a couple of inches off-center, use a melon baller to scoop out the edible part, and then later put the finished salad into the hollowed-out melon. Use the other piece as a lid, if you like.
- To make a cocktail style fruit salad, add between 1 and 2 cups of good quality orange juice, and between 3 tablespoons and 1/3 cup of sugar, all depending on the amount you are preparing.
- Bananas turn brown quickly. If you expect to have leftovers, cut up the bananas and coat them lightly with lemon juice before mixing with the rest.
- If you are using apples, try to use lime juice, or keep the salad refrigerated to prevent the apples from turning brown.
Warnings
- Be careful when chopping fruits- knives are sharp and when mishandled can be dangerous. Sharper knives are actually safer. The sharper your knife, the less likely it is to slip and cut you!
- Beware of the food allergies of your guests.
- It's advisable that you wash your fruits thoroughly before preparing your salad, to remove any traces of pesticides.
Things You'll Need
- Diverse fruit (see above list)
- Knife
- Large bowl
- Fruits
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Have a delicious day!
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