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6 Low-Fat Homemade Fruit Salad Recipes
Advantage should be taken of the various kinds of fresh fruits during the
seasons when they can be obtained, for usually very appetizing salads can be
made of them. However, the family need not be deprived of fruit salads during
the winter when fresh fruits cannot be secured, for delicious salads can be made
from canned and dried fruits, as well as from bananas and citrus fruits, which
are usually found in all markets.
Homemade fruit salad meals can be a fun activities for the whole family to while
controlling the calories. Here are 7 different types of low-fat homemade fruit
salad recipes:
1) Mixed Fruit Salad
Take sweet, ripe oranges, apples, bananas, and grapes. Peel the oranges, quarter
them, and remove skin and pips. Peel and core the apples and cut into thin
slices. Wash and dry the grapes, and remove from stalks. Skin and slice the
bananas. Put the prepared fruit into a glass dish in alternate layers. Squeeze
the juice from 2 sweet oranges and pour over the salad. Any other fresh fruit in
season may be used for this salad. Castor sugar may be sprinkled over if
desired, and cream used in place of the juice. Grated nuts are also a welcome
addition.
2) Filbert & Cherry Salad
If something different in the way of salad is desired, cherries that have been
seeded and then filled with filberts will prove a delightful change. With this
salad, any salad dressing may be served, but fruit-salad dressing makes it
especially delicious.
3) Date & Walnut Salad
Persons who are fond of dates will find a salad made of dates and walnuts very
palatable. In addition, such a salad is high in food value. Select firm whole
dates, wash, and dry between clean towels. Cut a slit in the side of each date
and remove the seed. Place half an walnut meat inside and press the date
together. Garnish salad plates with lettuce and serve five or six of the dates
in a star shape for each serving. In the center, pour a spoonful or two of cream
salad dressing, boiled salad dressing, or any other dressing that may be
desired.
4) Apple & Nut Salad
4 tart apples
1 cupful of pecan meats
24 blanched almonds
2 sweet Spanish peppers
The rule for French dressing
Peel the apples, cut them into dice, squeeze over the juice of one or two
lemons, and stand them aside until wanted. The lemon juice will prevent
discoloration. Chop the nuts. At serving time line the salad bowl with a layer
of chopped celery or cabbage or lettuce leaves, then a layer of apples, nuts,
celery, apples and nuts. Baste with the French dressing, and, if you have them,
garnish with the sweet peppers cut into strips, and use at once.
5) Apple, Date & Orange Salad
The combination of fruits required by the accompanying recipe is an easy one to
procure in the winter time. Apple and date salad is a combination much liked,
but unless it is served with a rather sour dressing, it is found to be too bland
and sweet for most persons. The addition of the orange gives just the acid touch
that is necessary to relieve this monotonous sweetness.
1 c. diced apples Lettuce
3/4 c. dates, seeded Salad dressing
2 oranges
Lettuce
Salad Dressing
Peel the apples and dice them into fine pieces. Wash the dates, remove the
seeds, and cut each date into six or eight pieces. Prepare the oranges as
directed for preparing oranges for salad, and cut each section into two or three
pieces. Just before serving, mix the fruits carefully so as not to make the
salad look mushy, pile in a neat heap on garnished salad plates, and serve with
any desired dressing. Sufficient to Serve Six
6) California Salad
During the months in which California grapes can be found in the market, a very
delicious salad can be made by combining them with grapefruit and oranges.
Either Malaga or Tokay grapes may
be used.
1-1/2 c. grapes
2 oranges Salad
1 grapefruit
Lettuce
Salad Dressing
Prepare the grapes by washing them in cold water, cutting them into halves, and
removing the seeds. Remove the sections from the oranges and grapefruit in the
way previously directed, and cut each section into three or four pieces. Mix the
fruits and drain carefully so that they contain no juice or liquid. Pile in a
heap on salad plates garnished with lettuce and serve with any desired dressing.
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