Not so long ago, the fashion for fruit salads entered our life. With their help, they lose weight, use it as a snack, treat guests at the holidays. But not everyone knows that this dish can be presented in a completely new way every time. You don't need anything supernatural to do this, just dress your fruit salad with one of the sauces listed below.
What could be more useful and valuable than a fruit salad when it contains so many vitamins and useful microelements. This is a real fountain of vitamins that you can afford at any time of the year, since you can always find fruits both in stores and in the vegetable market. Thanks to the huge variety of berries and fruits, you can arrange for yourself such healthy dessert days at least every day.
Every day you can indulge yourself with a completely new dish, using the simplest classic recipe - cut fruit into small pieces and season everything with a light sauce. Thanks to such a snack during breakfast, lunch or dinner, you will not only keep your slim figure, but also give your body great benefits, saturate the body with all the missing vitamins.
In addition, both children and adults like this dish, so it can become a frequent guest on your festive table.
What fruit salads are made from
Fruit salads are prepared from sweet and not very sweet fruits, berries and sauces are added. Sometimes it is possible to come across absolutely incredible combinations of products for this dessert. What is not added to diversify your taste fantasies - boiled potatoes, eggs, carrots and even beets. And for dressing - honey, cream, olive oil, various spices and everyone's favorite mayonnaise.
You don't need any trickery to make a simple and easy fruit salad. There is the most common and quickest way.
You need to cook 1 orange, 1 apple and 1 pear. Wash everything thoroughly. For those who like to eat soft foods, the fruit can be peeled. Then we cut everything into cubes (preferably not finely, in order to preserve the useful properties of the product as long as possible) and put it in a deep plate.
It will take you no more than 10 minutes to cook, but the pleasure that you get from using it will give you a boost of energy and positive emotions for the whole day.
Simple but very important rules
1. Be sure to rinse the fruit thoroughly.
2. If you took the fruit with darkening, foreign stains, then you must remove them all.
3. As you know, apples, pears and bananas darken almost instantly. To prevent this from happening, use the usual method: pour lemon juice over the fruits as soon as they are in the salad bowl.
4. Try to cut the fruit with a ceramic knife rather than a metal knife to avoid harmful oxidation.
5. Prepare the salad just before serving and season it at the very last moment. This will preserve all its taste, vitamins and attractive appearance. If you season your sweet fruit salad ahead of time, they will flow quickly.
But this is not the end of our fruit dish. To add some unusual touch to it or radically change the taste, you need to make a dressing. To do this, you can use whatever you have at home: jam, honey or cream. Decorate the dessert with berries, nuts and even pre-steamed dried fruits. If you like sour dishes, you can sprinkle the fruit with lemon juice.
Friends will come to you for dinner who are not averse to treating themselves to something new. Offer them a fruit salad dressed with a sauce with a few drops of liqueur, rum or cognac. Your guests will definitely need supplements.
What types of gas stations are there?
These are liquid sauces and thick (pasty creams).
Sauces
The most common dressing options for sweet fruit salads are natural yoghurt, yoghurt with fruit chunks, and sweet yoghurt. In this option, you rely only on the required calorie content of the finished dish. But even if you strictly follow your figure, the extra calorie after such a salad will not linger in your body for a long time.
There is a large selection of yoghurts on the shelves with various additives that are not advisable to use for fruit salad. Better opt for white yogurt. If it looks sour to you, add sugar to it. Many people replace yogurt with sour cream, heavy cream, fermented baked milk.
If you have a sweet tooth, season the salad with condensed milk, liquid jam or honey. And if you prefer ice cream, then combine business with pleasure. Fruit with ice cream is delicious.
Add a little liquid chocolate to the salad and you will make the most coveted dessert for children. And if you decorate it with colorful confetti and airy cream, this salad will become the king of the evening.
You can make fruit sauce. For this, bananas and berries are rubbed to a puree consistency. They can be seasoned with cinnamon, vanilla, ginger. The fruit sauce is added to the salad just before serving.
Creams
Do you want something interesting and unusual? Use curd, cream, custard or chocolate cream for salad dressing. The cream is quite simple to make. You only need cream, sugar, cocoa and chocolate (there are enough recipes for making creams on the Internet, choose for every taste). Everything is whipped until a thick consistency, slightly thicker than 20% sour cream.
The preparation of fruit creams is the same. But instead of chocolate and cocoa, fruit syrup or juice is used.
From all of the above, we can conclude: fruit salad is a very healthy dish. At the same time, with the help of various variations of sauces, you can experiment with it, creating exquisite culinary masterpieces.
