Fresh tropical fruits salad

Ditch the canned fruit cocktail with the rubbery content that is 90% chewy papaya. Fresh fruits tossed in a mixture of cream and sweetened condensed milk may entail more work but the result is a far, far cry from miniscule fruit pieces swimming in white mass.

fresh fruits

There are no hard and fast rules as to what fruits can go into the salad. My family’s preferences include mangoes, melon, bananas, seedless grapes and apples. Papaya and pineapple are good choices too. You can even add buko to your fruit salad.

I recommend chilling the fruits (in the fridge, not in the freezer), as well as the cream and sweetened condensed milk, before preparing the salad.

preparing the fruits

Some fruit like bananas and apples discolor fast. If you don’t intend to assemble your fruit salad immediately, you may want to toss your sliced bananas and apples with a little lemon or kalamansi juice to retard the discoloration process. Aside from that, there’s not much to making a fresh fruits salad. Just remove all inedible portions of the fruits and cut into more or less the same sizes.

tropical fruits salad

Then pour in your dressing and toss. Most people prefer a 1:1 ratio of cream and sweetened condensed milk but my taste buds say that’s too sweet. I prefer a 1:2 ratio — one part sweetened condensed milk to two parts cream. Just stir them together, pour on the fruits and toss. How much depends on the amount of fruit you have prepared. As a guide, for four mangoes, half a melon, four bananas, one apple and a cup and a half of grapes, I used one cup of cream and half a cup of sweetened condensed milk.

Once the salad has been assembled, place in a covered container and keep in the fridge until needed.

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8 Responses to “Fresh tropical fruits salad”
  1. Jo Santos says:
    December 17, 2007 at 9:23 am

    Hi Connie,

    I have this experience that adding fresh melon or fresh
    pineapple makes the salad bitter, a few hour after it has been prepared. How do you solve that?

    Reply
  2. Connie says:
    December 17, 2007 at 1:16 pm

    Never used fresh pineapple personally but I never had such problem with melon. Just to be more specific, I use cantaloupe.

    Reply
  3. Joseph says:
    December 19, 2007 at 2:35 pm

    My mother boils the pineapple first in a sugary solution before putting it in the fruit salad. Maybe that will explain why she does that always.

    Reply
  4. emilyn says:
    November 21, 2008 at 1:12 pm

    gusto ko makabalo ko himo fruit salad. inpilipino style

    Reply
  5. bambi says:
    December 24, 2008 at 9:11 am

    Ms. Connie,

    This fruit salad seem to be staple at any Pinoy family table during the Holidays. Muntik na ako umiyak sa frustration at Nostalgia for the Philippines nung isang gabi sa grocery dito where I live. Pano po kasi eh, nag uunahan kaming mga Pilipina sa iilan na lamang na Nestle Cream at Condensed Milk sa grocery. I got the last two cans…..Thank God! Kung di ko yun nakuha, iiyak na ko talaga.

    Merry Christmas Ms. Connie.

    Bambi

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  6. Connie says:
    December 24, 2008 at 11:20 am

    Bambi, okay lang naman kahit anong brand ng cream. :)

    Reply
  7. bambi says:
    December 26, 2008 at 7:26 am

    I know that, Ms. Connie. Siguro, we all are just creatures of habit culturally. Or, we just want the occasion to be authentic. :)

    Reply
  8. Connie says:
    December 26, 2008 at 10:10 am

    Ok pala na cure sa homesickness yung familiar ingredients ha?

    Reply
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