Exotic Fruit Salad

Prep: 20min
| Servings: 6 | Cook: 4h
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Tropical fruit salad with Piña Colada granita: ice-cold refreshment for hot summer days, featuring a chilled Piña Colada mix.

Ingredients

  • 100 g cane sugar
  • 2 limes
  • 400 ml coconut milk (9% fat)
  • 150 ml pineapple juice
  • 400 g mango (1 mango)
  • 1 kg pineapple (1 pineapple)
  • 300 g small papaya (1 small papaya)
  • 2 tamarillos
  • 2 tbsp brown rum, optional (or non-alcoholic rum)

Instructions

  1. 1.

    Boil sugar with 100 ml water. Simmer for 1 minute while bubbling and then allow to cool completely. Cut limes in half and squeeze out the juice.

  2. 2.

    Whisk together coconut milk, sugar syrup, 2 tbsp lime juice and pineapple juice.

  3. 3.

    Pour the milk mixture into a shallow baking dish or bowl and place it in the freezer for about 4 hours. When the edges begin to freeze, stir vigorously with a fork every 15–30 minutes until fully frozen. Keep refrigerated until needed again.

  4. 4.

    Peel mango, cut flesh from stone, slice and roughly cube. Peel pineapple, quarter and remove core; cube flesh roughly.

  5. 5.

    Peel papaya, halve, deseed and roughly cube. Peel tamarillos and cut into wedges.

  6. 6.

    If desired, mix 2 tbsp lime juice with rum and combine with the fruit in a bowl. Let sit for 30 minutes. Serve the fruit salad with the ice (granita).