Fruit Salad Help

lady_isa

Normally its what needing used up in the fruit bowl - generally apples, pears, oranges, but i also add pineapple, banana, melon, grapes to it.

for juice i use orange or lime. also like it with yoghurt.

my step dad adds raisins to his fruit salad.

Spendless

pineapple, grapes, mango, kiwi fruit, oranges usually. I add apples or pears if they need using up. If I put in a soft fruit like strawberries or bannas they go in just before I serve. Top with orange juice. I sometimes use frozen fruits but I've never put tinned ones in.

Quasar

banana, strawberries, nectarine slices. Dressed with a tablespoon of white wine and a dash of lemon. :drool:

shell2001

Really looking forward to summer time (when the ingredients are cheaper) as we like:-

Fresh Cherries (stoned & halved)
Fresh Strawberries
Apples
Melon
White grapes
Pineapple (usually tinned with juice added)
Kiwi

With apple juice poured over and left in fridge for couple of hours so all the flavours merge and the cherry juice makes the juice pink - mouth is watering just thinking about it.

Luna69

Hi
WOndering if anyone could help with a fruit salad? Mainly the dressing. My DD has just gone onto packed lunches and I bought a lot more fruit than usual with the idea of making a fruit salad. I have usual fruit along with some mango and pineapple too. What I really need to know though is, if I make a big batch up to store, what dressing would be best to use? Kids aren't keen on citrus flavours.. lemon/lime that kind of thing. Didn't really want to use sugar if I could help it or not much anyway, will use a little so wasn't really keen on making a syrup.
I don't have yogurt only kids fromage frais, but wasn't sure if it would keep as long with yogurt on it?

If anyone could help that would be great, don't want to waste all this fruit. Might have to get the juicer back out again. Would it work with actual fruit juice too?

Also how long would it keep in the fridge for or should I freeze it?

Thanks
Yvonne

squeaky

I'd suggest that you get the juicer out and juice "some" of the fruit(s) to get yourself a liquid.

You could use it "neat" so that your fruit cocktail would be pretty much like those tinned ones in their juice.

If you want a slightly thicker sauce you could put the juice in a pan and thicken it however much you like with cornflour.

The possibilities are endless... you could have mixed fruit with "banana sauce" only... or with "banana and pineapple"... or...

Get the idea?

Noopynu

Fruit salad keeps quite well with Mango Pulp/Puree mixed in, my mum makes it every now and then and serves it with Vanilla ice cream...Mmm.

angchris

my mum always makes her fruit salads with some diet cloudy lemonade glugged in the bowl with the chopped fruit.

Maxjessdru

Mint sugar is really nice on fruit salad (Jamie Oliver recipe) - just bash up mint leaves and white sugar until the sugar goes green. Sounds wierd but tastes really nice!

angelavdavis

I usually mix some orange juice, lemon juice, half teaspoon of sugar and a little water. The lemon stops the fruit from going too brown, the orange flavours, the sugar counteracts the bitter lemon and the water just stops it overpowering the other fruits.