Fruit Salad Cheekyricho video recipe

This has to be the best fruit salad you have ever tasted. No added sugar, it's not needed. Chunky sweet stone fruits, tart and colourful berries, juicy sweet melon, tropical fruits banana, seedless grapes, lychees, mango and home grown passion fruit served with a dollop of unsweetened Creme Fraiche from Meander Valley in Tasmania. Don't you just love the sound of that brand name. We show you a way to transport this delicious dessert easily and safely to your next picnic. 

You don't have to spend a fortune just one piece of as many different pieces of fruit you can find that are at their peak of ripeness and freshness is fine. If some fruits are out of season feel free to use frozen, dried or canned pieces to bulk out this yummy salad. Craisins, golden raisins, frozen berries or chunks of frozen mango and avocado work great too. The fruit should be firm yet ripe, don't be tempted to use fruit in your salad which is bruised, blemished or past its prime, putting second grade fruit into a fruit salad is a waste of ingredients, use it in a smoothie instead. Chop your fruit into different sizes for added texture, peel the fruits you need to like pineapples, melons, bananas and mangoes but apples and stone fruits can keep their jackets on, great texture, great colour and helps identify each individual piece by helping to keep it intact until it's time to eat. We used green apples, tart crisp and less likely to oxidise. Firm bananas hold their shape much better than ripe or even over ripe ones but they won't brown too much  either. Freeze it in fruit juice in individual  containers to pop into summer lunch boxes to keep the kids lunches fresh and cool. By lunch time they will be slushy soft and that close to an icy pole the kids will be delighted with this thoughtful lunch box treat. So much more durable than a squashed plum or banana.

This versatile fruit salad is perfect on top of pancakes, tossed into a blender with coconut milk, almond milk or yoghurt, a handful of baby spinach leaves for a grab ' n go smoothie Breaky. Fill a pavlova, tart or cover in jelly and chill it. You're gonna need to buy more fruit.;-))

Check it out and so much more on our Cheekyricho YouTube channel. This recipe joins almost 40 other salad  big brothers  on our Salad Playlist. http://youtu.be/KUSDpVGo76Y