English: fresh fruit salad (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
In this salad I use the original beets as it lends a festive air to this Mexican style salad. If you want to use this for a dessert instead, leave the beets out. Fresh beets are best, but for ease of preparation canned beets may be used if thoroughly drained. Fresh fruit is preferred. Sugar is the only sweet added or it may also be served with a thinned mayonnaise. I like the following combination, but you can substitute a fruit ingredient for some other that you prefer.
INGREDIENTS:
1 3/4 cups orange sections or mandarin orange sections
1 cup apples, unpeeled, cored and thinly sliced
1 3/4 cups pineapple chunks
1 cup sliced bananas
3/4 cups roughly chopped unsalted peanuts
seeds from 1 medium pomegranate
1 cups cooked sliced or diced beets
1/4 cup finely chopped peanuts
Mix all fruit pieces together. Top with pomegranate seeds and chopped nuts
Sprinkle with superfine sugar (or granulated) or serve with thinned mayonnaise.
This makes a wonderful dessert or dinner starter served before a holiday meal. It is usually served as part of the Christmas Eve meal in some parts of the world.
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