When you are in bed watching TV or sitting at the dining table and a plate of salad appears before you, you cannot resist this vividly colored salad ingredients. Fruit salad doesn’t seem terribly hard. You get a bunch of fruit, cut it up,
and throw it in a bowl. Here is a recipe to make a quick tasty fruit salad with papaya sauce.
Ingredients
1/4 cup freshly squeezed lime juice
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 pineapple, peeled, cored, and cut into 1-inch pieces
1 mango, peeled, pitted, and cut into 1-inch pieces
1 apple, peeled and cut into cubes
2 kiwis, peeled and sliced
1-1 medium sized carrots
A fist of cranberries
2-3 Scallions sliced
1/2 pound grapes, picked off stems
1/2 small melon, peeled, seeded, and cut into 1-inch pieces
1 fist of any seasonal berries
1/2 cup of Papaya cut into small chunks.
Preparation
1. In a small bowl, whisk together the lime juice and the sugar.
2. Place cut up fruit in a large salad bowl, pour sugar lime mixture over fruit.
3. Taste and adjust seasonings with more lime or sugar as needed. You can season your salad with honey too.
4. You can use papaya sauce instead of sugar lemon mixture.
Papaya sauce ingredients
1 large papaya, peeled, seeded, coarsely chopped (about 1 1/2 cup)
1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
3 tablespoons fructose sugar
1 1/2 tablespoons coarsely chopped fresh mint leaves
Puree all ingredients in processor until smooth. Transfer to bowl. Cover and refrigerate until ready to use.
Drizzle Papaya-Mint Sauce over fruits. Sprinkle with coconut. Garnish with mint, cauliflower leaves or you can use celery stalks
Via: HealthRecipes
