Fruit Salad Help

Whistling_Gypsy

I've used a teeny bit of Grenadine Syrup before - not that cheap but a bottle lasts for ages, and it makes your fruit salad a fab colour! Adds a bit of sweetness and smells lovely too.

sillyvixen

i always use orange juice on my fruit salads.

Luna69

THanks for all the replies, I'll try some of those. I might put some in the juicer and use that ... will probably need a good clean first!
The mint sugar sounds lovely although I'd need to get some mint leaves first.

Will give it a go before all my fruit goes too soft and yucky.

Thanks again

YORKSHIRELASS

Hi

Please be gentle with me. I know this probably sounds silly but I dont know how to make a fruit salad and DS keeps asking me if I would make some. I assume its just lots of different fruits chopped up together but what do you put in for the juice?

Also, is it possible to make it without spending a fortune? Fruits like blueberries and strawberries are probably out of my budget. If anyone has got a favourite recipe then I would love to know.

Thank you!

sexymouse

A basic fruit salad that my Dad makes contains chopped melon (honeydew and canteloupe- the orange one), grapes, apple and maybe a tin of madarin segments. If you squeeze some orange juice over the fruit salad it stops the apples going brown. You could add sliced banana, although it tends to go a bit mushy and brown. It's up to you what you put in it - see which fruit your DS likes and chuck it all in. You could sweeten some orange juice from a carton to put over or add some tinned fruit in syrup or juice to the mix.

pollys

For juice I use a carton of orange or breakfast juice. I usually put in red and green apple, grapes, strawberries (if in season) mandarin oranges (the juice can be added) pineapple. My lot are a bit limited in what they like/dont like but we all like the above.

HTH

Pollys

lostinrates

You can make fruit salad in various different ways. I would go with fruit in season, tarted up with a rin of a more expensive fruit/ berry as a basic lower cost 'recipe'.

I make lots of fruit salads and like different ones to ring the changes....i am very keen on 'gold' fruit salads, peaches, nectarines, a passion fruit, or red fruit salad....watermelon with some berries, tinned in winter.

You can get more adventurous as you get more confident.....i like melons in season, with a little syrup from a jar of ginger. I sometimes use orange blossom water and cardomon, or rose water and pistachios to 'lift' something.

Yesterday for mothers day, dh and i made my mother a breakfast of a salad of strawberries, kiwis and kumquats.

thenanny2die4

To be honest, I'd say you don't really need any form of juice at all, but that depends on the fruit you use. If you add apples, (and possibly pears) you will need something to dissuade them from going brown; pears you will get away with if you make and serve quickly.

I used to make a lot of fruit salad when I was doing a Nanny/Housekeeping job a few years ago, as my employer liked to have a bowl of fruit at the ready for encouraging her teenage boys to snack on something other than cereal... A favourite there was "Red Fruit" - self explanatory really: water melon (very cheap when in season), strawberries, raspberries, loganberries, redcurrants...

There's no "right" way to do it - just use whatever fruit appeals to you. I find I'm much more inclined to eat fruit if there's a bowl ready in the fridge.

bizzylizzy

Fruit salad can be very expensive (although delicious) but a cheaper way is to start with a tin of peach slices, either in juice or syrup (I use a value tin). Then add an apple, pear and banana (at the last minute) and any other fruit you may have around.
I just had fruit salad tonight using the above and also added Mr T's value grapes. They are surprisingly nice!

Spendless

I find berries in a fruit salad go mushy very easily and apples/pears can go brown. My more 'hard-wearing' fruit salad, follows the one that DS did in Reception and has grapes, kiwi, oranges. I add a little fruit juice if the salad hasn't produced enough liquid.