Tropical Fruit Salad

I make fruit salad in the winter with boring fruit: apples, bananas and oranges. Then I zip it up with frozen fruit like raspberries or mangos. My kid liked it, it's healthy, easy and cheap.

For a good fruit salad, mix as many fruits My favorite fruit salad - known in Italy as macedonia - is simply composed of strawberry, peach, kiwi, apple, banana. Other berries and tropical fruits fit in perfectly. Squeeze some lime or lemon juice to avoid fruit oxidation. If you have it, add a drop of straw wine that will sweeten the fruit salad and will also give a hint of bitter. My recommendations are vin santo, Passito di Pantelleria, Amarone, vin de Paille.

For me, rediscovering fruit salad was one of the great revelations of becoming a parent. Not to diminish all that other good stuff, but I might have saved a fortune on diapers and daycare if this had been published a decade ago.

For a little different color and taste, add cubed pawpaw/papaya. This blend of tropical fruits is delicious. You can also add chunks of cut oranges or kiwi fruit.

yo just eat pineapple, it’s a gift from the heavens and should be treated with the respect it deserves

this tastes delightful but its appearance resembles some hospital food I have known. Spark it up with a few raspberries or cherries or if you want to stay tropical, some prickly pear fruit

And some mint, grated lemon peel, garnish, absolutely some cinnamon and vanilla. Chilled

It's sometimes hard to find decent mangos in my local grocery store, so I like to substitute seedless tangerine sections and throw in some blueberries or any additional citrus - sometimes tangelo sections. I sometimes add a splash of fresh squeezed orange juice as well.

Add fresh mint . . . even more summery.

I find this salad boring. All the food is essentially the same color and same size and the flavors are all similar. I make fruit salad all year long. First put the fruits that brown on the bottom which include stone fruit and bananas. Add a large variety of fresh fruits which may include melon balls, tropical fruits, all berries on top. Section oranges, squeeze the remaining juice over the salad (no pineapple, apple, pear.) and ideally passion fruit! Always asked to bring to functions.

Make a simple syrup with a dash of cognac and strawberry jam and minced mint, toss the fruit in this mixture. Then squeeze a lime into the salad and toss again and chill. The fruit gets glazed and the flavors intensify.

With any fruit salad, a nice dressing is equal parts freshly squeezed lemon juice and sugar, especially if the fruit is store bought and perhaps not at its ripest. This dressing enlivens supermarket fruit.

Add a sprinkle of red chili powder to make it amazing!

I used to live in Honduras where they served a lovely fruit salad of pineapple, bananas, and cinnamon.

Really lovely combination. The fruit is all sweet, so I found that a squeeze of lime worked nicely in place of the sweeter lemon.