Pineapple Boat Fruit Salad

This beautiful pineapple boat fruit salad is made with a variety of colorful fruit, shredded coconut and granola…then topped with a scoop of cottage cheese, sherbet or yogurt.

This is my version of a fruit salad that I had in Hawaii that was served inside a hollowed-out halved pineapple.

What a beautiful fruit salad this is especially when served inside a pineapple “boat” with the pineapple crown still attached.

In this recipe, the fruit salad is topped with cottage cheese and granola.

I’ve also had this salad topped with sherbet ice cream and it’s delicious.

Another option is to top this fruit salad with your favorite yogurt.

This recipe is highly customizable so feel free to substitute or add your favorite fruit or berries.

Serve this colorful fruit salad as an appetizer, side dish, or individual serving for breakfast, lunch or dinner.

Let’s check out the ingredients.

Fruit Salad – Pineapple, kiwi fruit, mango, blueberries, banana, orange, watermelon and shredded coconut

Toppings – Cottage cheese, granola, yogurt or sherbet ice cream

HOW TO MAKE THIS RECIPE

A printable recipe with the measurements and instructions is located at the bottom of this post.

For the Pineapple:

Cut a whole pineapple in half lengthwise (with the green top “the crown” still on).

Hollowing Out the Pineapple for the Fruit Salad – On the fruit side of the halved pineapple, about 1/2-inch from the outside edge, using a knife about the size of a steak knife, make a cut around the perimeter.

While cutting, carefully aim the knife at a diagonal towards the inside of the fruit.

When cutting around the top of the pineapple by the stalk, leave a slightly wider edge so that the stalk has support and does not fall forward.

Once the cutting is done, the middle of the pineapple should lift out.

After the middle of the pineapple is removed…

…use a spoon to carefully hollow out the pineapple so that the inside is in the shape of a bowl or a “boat”.

Then spoon out the excess pineapple and juice so that the “boat” is empty.

For the Fruit Salad:

Cut the pineapple fruit in fairly large chunks.

If the core is on the tough side, cut it off from the pieces of pineapple and discard.

Next,

…cut off the rind from the watermelon and cut the watermelon in fairly large chunks.

Peel the kiwi fruit and cut it in fairly large chunks.

Then peel the mango, cut the fruit from the seed and cut the fruit in chunks.

Peel the banana and cut the fruit in fairly large pieces.

Rinse and drain the blueberries.

Remove any stray stems from the blueberries.

To a large plate, add the fruit and blueberries so that the fruit can be mixed together before adding inside of the pineapple.

Squeeze orange juice over the bananas to help prevent the banana from turning brown.

Mix the fruit and berries together.

Time to fill the pineapple boat with fruit…

To the hollowed-out pineapple, add the fruit and blueberries.

Next,

Sprinkle shredded coconut on top of the fruit.

Serve as is or…

…top with either cottage cheese, yogurt or sherbet ice cream and garnish with granola.

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