I cannot think of many people who will turn up their noses at a bowl of fresh fruit salad, especially in the heat of summer.
As my regular steemit friends know, I live in South Africa, the land of sunny skies; so even though we're in the midst of winter, we still have plenty of sunshine and an abundance of fruit available, so we eat fruit salad right through the year - awesome as a breakfast meal with muesli and yogurt or as dessert with cream, custard or ice cream.
For this week's Steemit Iron Chef 2018 Act 02 Round 09 - Theme: Fruit Salad which is the contest arranged by an awesome steemian named @progressivechef, currently working as an executive chef on the tropical island of Mauritius, I made Fruit Salad Islands.
Of course we are limited to winter fruits like apples, pears, oranges and thankfully the faithful stand-by's that bless us throughout the year - kiwifruit, strawberries and bananas - plenty of the latter here in Kwazulu Natal ;)
All these fruits were diced and placed into molds, then set in a soft wobbly jelly made with orange juice and gelatin and served with a luscious passion fruit and mango coulis. Beautiful fruity colours shone through the wobbly jelly.
Ingredients required:
- 1 large Granny Smith Apple - diced with skin on
- 1 large Pear - diced
- 1 Orange - sliced plus 300ml freshly squeezed Orange Juice
- 2-3 Kiwifruit - sliced and diced
- 1 punnet Strawberries - diced
- 3-4 Bananas - sliced
- 4-5 Granadillas (Passionfruit) - 150ml Pulp
- 1-2 Mangoes - 150ml Mango Pulp
- 2-3 teaspoons Gelatin
Make up the orange jelly by leaving the gelatin in a little water to sponge.
Heat orange juice and add gelatin, stirring to dissolve.
Make up the coulis by blending the mango and passion fruit pulp.
Place diced fruit into molds.
Pour orange & gelatin over to cover fruit and refrigerate till set.
Extra Fruit salad placed into pretty glass bowl for seconds!
Invert a moistened cold platter over top of molds, turn over to unmold each little island. Carefully move to serving plates and pour coulis around to form a delicious fruity ocean around the little colourful islands.
This one is Long Island.
Almost forgot to take the proof photo so quickly assembled another little island with fruit from the large bowl.
A quick look at the making of these little fruity islands:
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I want to dig my spon into it! Looks so fruity and refreshing!
Thank you so much :)
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Thank you so very much, it's a huge honour getting a double shoutout :)
You did it again @lizelle! My mouth is watering just thinking of the orange jelly along with the fresh fruit and the tangy passionfruit coulis. Good luck!
Thank you @loveself :)
It looks so juicy and delicious. I love the passion fruit and mango coulis. Divine!
Agreed 100%
Hello friend, in fact that creation is spectacular, very nutritious and very explosive flavors, that preparation is excellent for children who are here in Venezuela on vacation and because of the great crisis, we can not take them on a trip like in the past, so We pamper you by making these delicious fruit recipes that you love. The presentation is excellent the very striking plated, greetings to all especially to the grandmother, I congratulate you and thank you for sharing @lizelle
Thank you so much for your great comments :)
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It looks delicious, I like your decor
Thank you so much :)
I always love the recipes that you prepare. That piece of strawberry caught my eye and me and my daughter loves strawberries. What an eye candy of a fruit salad dessert. It looks so good!
Hey that's a nice trick! To have the fruits in gelatin is a really good idea! ... the only thing, I always like to have fruit salad with ice cream....
I have to say, I would enjoy a bowl of that right now myself if there was one available in our fridge. Your husband is a very lucky man. Best of luck with the Iron Chef Challenge Lizelle.