Fresh Pineapple Fruit Salad

Barb Gertz's Note:

A very easy fresh fruit salad, so good on a summer evening or for brunch.

• Total Time: 15 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 0 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• 1 whole pineapple
• 1 papaya, peeled, seeded and cut in chunks
• 1/4 lb seedless grapes
• 1 apple, peeled cored and cut into chunks
• 1/4 cup pecans
• 1 banana, sliced
• 1/4 cup lime juice
• 1 lime, quartered, as garnish

Directions:

1. Cut pineapple, lengthwise into quarters.
2. Cut away and discard core.
3. Remove pineapple flesh by carefully cutting between it and the outer skin of pineapple to use the shell for a salad bowl.
4. Cut pineapple into chunks and combine with remaining ingredients, except lime wedges, in a bowl.
5. Gently toss and chill if desired.
6. Serve fruit salad in a pineapple shell topped with lime garnish.

Reviews

[evelyn/athens]

A nice combination of fruit, but all I could really taste was the sourness of the lime. It really needed a couple of tablespoonfuls of sugar (or honey) to tie in the fruit with the lime.