Custard Fruit Salad is a tasty dessert to serve anytime. It is easy to make and can be made ahead of time. It gives the benefit of a wide range of fruits. Fruits of rarer variety taste good and makes it richer. Addition of nuts makes it exotic.

When can you serve fruit salad? 

Fruit salad can be served after lunch or dinner as dessert. It is ideal as after school snack for children. It makes a good dessert during summer, serve it with any ice cream. It is also ideal during fasting days.

Does fruit salad stay good in refrigerator?

Fruit salad stays good if refrigerated for two days. It tastes best when it is made and served chilled. Thus, the best way is to make custard and keep it in a refrigerator. Cut the fruits and keep them in another bowl. Mix the fruits in custard and serve.

Ingredients :

• Pear 1
• Kiwi 3
• green apple 1
• lychee  8 ( I do not know of the latest threats of it, beware)
• orange 1
• sapota 2
• grapes 15
• strawberry 6
• milk 1/2 litre
• cornflour 1 tbsp
• sugar 3 tsp
• vanilla essence 2 drops
• cashew nuts 4
• raisins 8
• almonds 4
• honey 2 tbsp

Method :

The making of fruit salad  involves 3 steps:

1. Making of custard
2. Cutting of fruits and nuts
3. Mixing of it

1 Make custard by boiling the milk. Add sugar. Mix the corn flour in  cold milk and keep it aside.  Slowly add it to the boiling milk. Let boil for a few minutes. Allow to cool. Once it is at room temperature, keep it in the refrigerator. 

2 Wash and cut the pear, green apple and sapota into small pieces. Remove the seeds of lychee and cut into quarters. Peel the orange and make it into segments. Cut strawberries. Cut the dry fruits into small pieces.

3 Mix all the fruits  into the  bowl of custard. Exotic fruit salad is now ready. Serve chilled, garnish with dry fruits and a dollop of honey.

Take a tip:

1. Custard powder is made using corn flour. Thus, I have used corn flour and flavoured with  vanilla essence to it. Alternatively, you can use custard powder also. But as I get down to the basics, I usually like to use cornflour.
2. You can use any or all of the mentioned fruits. 
3. If mangoes are available, do use them. It tastes good.
4. Banana is not used here, you can use it. 

Video to make custard :

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Exotic Fruit Salad

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Exotic Fruit Salad

Fruit Salad is a classic dessert to serve anytime. Use rare fruits and top with nuts to make it exotic.

Course Dessert

Keyword classic dessert, exotic fruit salad, fruit salad

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes minutes

Chilling time 30 minutes minutes

Total Time 50 minutes minutes

Ingredients

• 1 pear
• 3 kiwi
• 1 green apple
• 8 lychee
• 1 orange
• 2 sapota
• 15 grapes
• 6 strawberry

For the custard

• 1/2 litre milk
• 1 tablespoon cornflour
• 3 teaspoon sugar
• 2 drops vanilla essence

For topping

• honey
• dry fruits

Instructions

Making of Custard

• Make custard by boiling the milk. Add sugar. Mix the corn flour in  cold milk and keep it aside.  Slowly add it to the boiling milk. Let boil for a few minutes. Allow to cool. Once it is at room temperature, keep it in the refrigerator. 

Cutting of fruits

• Cut the fruits into small pieces. Chop the dry fruits.

Mixing of fruits

• Once the custard is warm, you can add fruits to it. Chill it. Before serving, top with nuts and a dollop of honey.

If you ever make this recipe, take a picture and share it by tagging @foodiejayashree on Instagram or @evergreendishes on Facebook. I will be glad to see and share your creation further.
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