Pineapple Boat Fruit Salad
A beautiful fruit salad served inside a pineapple that can be topped with cottage cheese, yogurt or sherbet.
Ingredients
For the Fruit Salad:
- 1 whole pineapple
- 1 whole kiwi fruit peeled and cut into fairly large bite size pieces
- 1 whole mango Peeled, fruit cut from the seed and cut into bite size pieces
- 1/2 cup blueberries
- 1 whole banana peeled
- 2 quarters of an orange
- 1 cup bite size pieces of watermelon
- 1/4 cup shredded coconut
For the Topping:
- 1/2 cup cottage cheese or sherbet ice cream or yogurt
- 1/4 cup granola
Instructions
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.
- Peel the banana and cut the fruit in fairly large pieces, add them to a small bowl. To the bowl, add fresh squeezed orange juice. Coat each piece of banana with the juice to help prevent the banana from turning brown.
- To a large plate, add the cut fruit and blueberries. Mix them up and add them inside of the hollowed out pineapple.
- Sprinkle shredded coconut on top of the fruit.
- On top of the fruit, had a scoop of cottage cheese, sherbet ice cream, or yogurt Top with granola and serve.