Roz’ Fruit Salad

Sometime ago I learned that a fresh fruit salad is not only healthy but a great starter – that’s right not as a dessert but as a starter. BEFORE you eat your main meal. The very first time I had fresh fruit salad was at the house of an old friend, U-Chen. He invited us to dinner and cooked a special roast chicken and fruit salad was dessert. That was when I learned that fresh lemon juice keeps apples from turning black!

I like to make a huge portion of fruit salad and keep it in the fridge for a few days to eat with meals or as a snack when we’re hungry. Although I love mangoes, strawberries, papaya, bananas etc in my fruit salad, they don’t keep so well in the fridge, so I keep it simple with fruits that last.

INGREDIENTS

2 Granny Smith’s (green) apples

2 red Gala apples

1 large Fuji apple

2 Valencia oranges

15 red grapes

3 rings of fresh pineapple

Juice of 1/2 lemon

1/2 teaspoon salt

DIRECTIONS

Try to cut all the fruits of equal size. About 1cm square. It looks much nicer 🙂

Wash all the fruits. Cube all the apples (throw away the centres) and put them in a salad bowl. Pour in the lemon juice and mix well.

Cut the orange in half, then slice off the top of the orange and the bottom part. Place face down then slice off the rind. Its easy now to cube the orange halves. 🙂

Cut the grapes into half or quarter them if they are larger.

Cube the pineapple rings. Add all the fruits to the apples, sprinkle the salt and mix well. Place in a Frigovere glass bowl with airtight cover and it will keep for days in the fridge.