Summer is a great time to make fruit salad. The range of fruit available is excellent and well priced.
Serving a fruit salad after dinner or at a Christmas function is a great healthy alternative to heavy creamy desserts. There are many ways you can make fruit salad, depending largely on the time of year, but the key to great fruit salad is to use the fruit that’s in season.
Spring fruit salad:
Juice one grapefruit and combine one cup of sugar with half of the grapefruit juice in a small pan. Simmer over a low heat. Cut a vanilla bean through the centre and scrape out seeds and place in the sugar and grapefruit mixture. Simmer for five minutes and leave to cool. Cut watermelon, apple, strawberries and segment grapefruit without the skin and arrange in a bowl. Put the watermelon on the bottom, then the grapes, apple, grapefruit and strawberries on top. Pour over sugar and grapefruit mixture then serve with fresh cream, ice cream or yoghurt.
Summer fruit salad:
Dice mango, kiwi fruit, apple and pineapple and put in a bowl. Mix some finely chopped mint through the mixture and the pulp of five passion fruits and the juice of one lemon. Leave the fruit salad in the fridge for at least two hours then serve.
