Today on The Stay At Home Chef
I'm showing you how to make the best fruit salad ever.
The key to all good fruit salads is to have the right balance of fruits.
It drives me crazy to see people throw a bunch of fruit in a bowl and call it a fruit salad.
It needs to be thoughtful and composed.
You need to have the right balance of acidity and sweetness,
and have all of the fruits work together harmoniously,
and not have one that overpowers everything.
Looking at you cantaloupes.
So this fruit salad is absolutely perfect.
It has the perfect blend of flavors and it's topped off with a lemon poppy seed dressing.
It really is the best fruit salad ever.
Just trust me on this one.
We're going to start by cutting up a pineapple.
I want to show you my trick for cutting pineapple that makes it so easy.
Cut off the top, cut off the bottom,
and then you run your knife along the edges to cut off to the outside.
Then just go ahead and discard all of that.
Now unless you are in Hawaii eating the most fresh, juicy delicious pineapple ever,
you probably have a core in your pineapple,
and I want to show you my easy method of dicing pineapple
without having some sort of special core remover.
Now you can actually see the core, but it extends out.
It depends on the ripeness of your pineapple,
and you can feel where it's hard and where it gets soft.
So I just rub my finger around
and then I use my fingernail to kind of give a little indentation of where that soft spot starts.
That way I can just use my knife and line it up with that and cut off all of the outside,
and I'm left with the core, and I can go ahead and discard that,
and dice up the rest of this pineapple.
Seriously, how easy is that?
Go ahead and finish dicing up the rest of your pineapple and then transfer it all to a large bowl.
Next we're going to work on our kiwis.
Now as kiwis I like to cut them in half,
and then use a spoon to remove all the flesh from that outside peel,
and you have to be careful to run your spoon around the edges,
and then you can dice up your kiwi from there.
Now this method only works with ripe kiwis,
but if they're not ripe you shouldn't be using them anyway.
I'm using 5 kiwis for this,
once you have them all chopped up,
go ahead and transfer them to that bowl with the pineapple.
Our last fruit today is my personal favorite,
strawberries.
I'm using nice, ripe, fresh, sweet strawberries.
Cut off the top and then simply quarter these strawberries,
or you can half them if they're on the small side.
I find that 2 pounds of strawberries,
1 pineapple,
and 5 kiwis provides me with the perfect ratio.
Once you have all of your fruit cut up it's time for some simple enhancements,
add a little bit of sweetness with 2 tablespoons of sugar,
add a little fun flare with a tablespoon of poppy seeds,
and finish it off with the juice from 1 lemon,
which is about 4 tablespoons,
and then stir it all together.
And that's it.
This is an absolute hit with everyone I serve it to and everywhere I take it.
It's often the very first thing gone at a potluck, so you know it's a winner.
I hope you agree that this is the best fruit salad ever.
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