Eleanors Fresh Fruit Salad Food

FRUIT SALAD

Steps:

• Prepare the fruit with a small serrated knife. Cut the top and bottom off the kiwi, stand it up on one of its flat surfaces and cut away the skin, keeping the knife as close to the skin as possible. Slice in half, following the core through the centre, then cut each half into slices. Put in a bowl and repeat with the other kiwi.
• Carefully cut the skin off the mango and slice off each cheek, running your knife as close to the stone as you can. Cut each piece into slices. Remove any remaining fruit from the stone in long thin slices. Add the mango to the kiwi.
• Top and tail the pineapple, then in a similar way to the kiwi, cut away the skin. Use your knife to go around the pineapple, taking out the divets or eyes, two to three at a time, you'll be left with a spiral pattern weaving around the outside of the fruit. Take of a circular slice, roughly 150g, quarter, remove the core then cut into chunks. Add to the bowl.
• Halve the grapes and add to the rest of the fruit along with the berries, you may want to slice or halve strawberries if they're large. Remove the peel from the orange using the same method as the kiwi and pineapple. Holding the orange over the bowl of fruit, remove the orange segments by carefully cutting between the membrane and the fruit. The pieces should fall out into the bowl along with any juice. Squeeze the membrane over the fruit to extract the juice, add a drizzle of honey, if you like. Mix everything together and leave in the fridge to macerate for 30 mins, if you have time.

FRUIT SALAD (COMBINATION OF FRESH, CANNED, AND FROZEN FRUITS)

Steps:

• Drain the pineapple juice and mandarin orange juice into a large bowl.
• Mix the pudding mix into the juices.
• Add pineapple, oranges, drained fruit cocktail, and strawberries.
• Mix well.
• Slice peeled bananas into salad right before serving.

REFRESHING FRESH FRUIT SALAD

Steps:

• Peel the orange, taking the white pith with it, like you would an apple.
• Slice into the orange along its sections and place in medium bowl.
• After slicing the orange, you should be left with a slim middle part of the orange; squeeze the juice from this section into the bowl.
• Peel and dice the apple into small pieces; immediately place in bowl and coat with orange pieces and orange juice.
• Peel and dice banana; immediately place in bowl and stir to coat (the orange juice will prevent these 2 fruits from turning brown).
• Slice grapes in half and add to mixture.
• Sprinkle with sugar and stir.
• (**Note,I only add the sugar or Splenda if my orange is a little too tart. If it's a sweet orange, you don't need any sugar).
• **I add blueberries to this if they're in season.

FRESH FRUIT SALAD

Steps:

• Mix all fruits, except bananas, in large bowl. Combine juices and honey and pour over fruit, tossing lightly to coat all pieces. Cover and chill 2 hours. Add banana just before serving.

CLASSIC FRUIT SALAD RECIPE

Steps:

• Wash all your vegetables that need to be washed
• Sliced the kiwi, watermelon, and cantelope - as well as the grapes if there will be young children
• Toss in a bowl and refrigerate with blueberries and kiwi
• Right before you are ready to serve it, slice the blueberries and fold in
• Serve immediately and refrigerate the leftovers

FRESH FRUIT SALAD WITH ORANGE LIQUEUR/ GRAND MARNIER

Steps:

• Combine all the fruit in a large bowl.
• Add orange liqueur/ orange juice/Grand Marnier and toss.
• Chill before serving.