Fruit salad

Fruit salad (even fruit salad or Macedonia de frutas ) is a dessert made ​​from marinated fresh fruit.

It is prepared traditionally cut into small pieces of fresh fruit. Typical is the use of apples, pears, oranges, cantaloupe, grapes and bananas. These are supplemented depending on the recipe with other fruit varieties that fit the taste or color to it.

To prepare the fruit is cleaned, peeled and seeded if necessary. The cut pieces are then marinated, it differentiates:

• The addition of granulated sugar, making the fruit juices and begin to form a fund
• The addition of sugar syrup that is combined with the exiting juice
• The addition of fruit juices (such as apple or orange )

Strong Colouring fruits like berries and red grapes are added only after marinating, shortly before consumption added. The addition of lemon or lime juice, the oxidation of the fruit is limited and increases durability.

Depending on the recipe, the salad is sweetened with honey or syrup flavored with spirits or supplemented by the addition of nuts, almonds or raisins.

Variants of fruit salad are the fruit cocktail and fruit salad canned, in which the salad is preserved. Besides the use as a stand-alone dish prepared fruit salad is often used to complement cereals, ice cream and dairy products such as yogurt and cottage cheese.