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Fruit Salad with Vanilla Bean Ice-cream

Posted on January 15, 2009 by in desserts

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 Fruit Salad has been a part of our family’s eating heritage for as long as I can remember. Whenever we had a church camp out, my mom would take a whole bucket of fruit salad and thin runny custard on the side. Friends and family would come to our campsite just for mom’s fruit salad.
We call it “angel’s food”! The secret to this fruit salad is to peel all the fruit, No and I mean NO peels.

What happens when you do this, is that the different fruits blend and you are left with a soft, glorious sensation. You will see that we also used canned fruit and I am sure some of you will have a fit about that, but give it a try, you will not be sorry that you did. I used the fruit that is canned in their own juices. So get ready for the taste ride of your life.

Fruit Salad( I would say for about 8 people)

3x 410gr tins fruit cocktail – this is what it is called here, but you are looking for canned fruit salad.
1x 410gr tin guava – cut up
4 passion fruits – or 2 small tins passion fruit pulp
1 small paw-paw- peeled and cut in cubes
3 bananas -peeled and sliced
1 small punnet blue berries
1 small punnet raspberries
1 small punnet goose berries
1 pinch of salt – it does make a difference ..it brings out the flavor or the fruits.

Open the tins and pour off all the liquid. Mix all the tinned fruit together in a glass bowl. Add the paw-paw and bananas. Just before serving add all the berries and mix through. Keep the passion fruit and pour over the ice-cream. The fruit salad is best if left in the fridge for a couple of hours.

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Tip – to keep your bananas from browning, do the following. Place 3 bananas with their peels still on in a bowl and cover with boiling water. Wait until the peels are black. Now peel the bananas and use as indicated in the recipe.

For the Vanilla bean ice-cream, I used a recipe from Kevin’s site, Closet cooking. We all love d the ice-cream and my serving suggestion just about floored my family. To make your own ice-bowl, click here.

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