What's the perfect snack if you want something light and sweet? Try a fruit dessert: tasty and appropriate at any time of the day. If you choose a light dressing combined with healthy ingredients, you can get not only a snack, but also a real dessert for a festive feast. Find out what fruit snacks you can make.
How to make fruit salad
Proper preparation of fruit salad begins with preparing the ingredients. Fresh fruits must be washed and excess seeds, stalks and peel removed. To soften dried fruits, you need to pour boiling water in advance and let them stand for a while. It can be difficult to wash the berries, so if they are very dirty, you need to soak them for 5-10 minutes in cold water, and only then rinse them well. Blot the fruits with a napkin: if you use berries and fruits without drying them, the taste of the salad may deteriorate and become watery.
Fruits that darken quickly (apples, bananas, pears, avocados) are first sprinkled with lemon juice. Thanks to such manipulations, they will look beautiful in the dessert, just like in the photo. Exotic mangoes or papaya can be prepared in the same way to enhance their flavor. Fruit snacks are seasoned with syrup, sweet sauce, yogurt, sour cream, juice or liqueur. You can use ice cream, but add it just before serving. Fruit desserts are recommended to be eaten chilled.
For decoration, you can use a mint leaf, berries, fruit figures or nuts cut out. For those with a sweet tooth who cannot imagine dessert without chocolate, you can add sweet seasoning by rubbing the bar or breaking it into pieces. You can use any confectionery products as sprinkles: dragees, coconut shavings, almond flakes, chopped pistachios or any other nuts, cookie crumbs, raisins.
Fruit Salad Recipes
Healthy desserts are always appropriate and very convenient to prepare. The fruit salad recipe does not require any special skills: you just need to beautifully cut the ingredients and season with a delicious sauce. This is a great option for a man who wants to pamper his lady with a delicious and colorful dessert. If you present the dish in an original way, it will only add to its effectiveness.
Present the fresh salad in halves of pineapple, mango, apple or orange, after scraping out the fruit pulp (it can be used as an ingredient or cut out into shapes for decoration). It is necessary to decorate the salad, whether it is in half a pineapple or a bowl. If you choose the second option, make sure that the dishes are elegant and comfortable.
With yogurt
Sweet fruits with smooth yoghurt are a great option for an evening snack, breakfast, or an excellent dietary snack for a children's party. Fruits are a good source of carbohydrates, so this dessert will fill you up and give you strength for the whole day. The recipe for fruit salad with yogurt, due to its fermented milk component, can be easily varied: you can use fresh or dried fruits, your favorite types of nuts, dragees, marshmallows or sprinkles.
Ingredients:
- apricot – 2 pcs.;
- banana – 1 pc.;
- apple – 1 pc.;
- lemon juice – 0.5 tsp;
- prunes – 4-5 pcs.;
- low fat yogurt - 3 tbsp. l.;
- milk chocolate – 50 g;
- walnut – 1 pc.
Cooking method:
- Pour boiling water over the prunes and leave for 15-20 minutes. This will soften it and make it easy to cut.
- Wash and peel apricots and apples: remove pits and seeds.
- Peel the banana, then cut all the fresh fruit into large cubes. Sprinkle additional lemon juice over the apple.
- Dry the prunes with a paper towel, then chop them into small pieces with a knife.
- Crush the walnuts with a meat hammer.
- Break the milk chocolate into small pieces.
- Mix all the fruits, season with yogurt and decorate with chocolate and nut crumbs on top.
With apples
What is the most accessible fruit at all times of the year? That's right, apple. You can buy it everywhere: at the market, in the supermarket. This versatile fruit can be combined with many ingredients and dressings. Fruits with a high iron content darken quickly after cutting, so the apple should be sprinkled with lemon juice to maintain an attractive appearance (as in the photo from a culinary magazine). How to make fruit salad from apples?
Ingredients:
- peach – 2 pcs.;
- apple – 1 pc.;
- blueberries – 1 tbsp.;
- raspberries – 5 pcs.;
- lemon juice – 1 teaspoon;
- fruit syrup - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- mint - for decoration.
Cooking method:
- Peel peaches, remove seeds and stems from apples.
- Cut the fruit into slices. Sprinkle the apple with lemon juice.
- Add washed blueberries and stir.
- Drizzle fruit syrup on top and garnish with raspberries and mint leaves.
With banana
A nutritious and tasty banana salad will appeal not only to adult guests, but also to children. This aromatic fruit is rich in nutrients, complements perfectly with other fruits and berries, and is also very filling: it can replace dinner or breakfast. Therefore, be sure to try to please your loved ones with a fragrant and tender dish.
Ingredients:
- banana – 1 pc.;
- apple – 1 pc.;
- grapes - a small brush;
- yogurt – 50 ml;
- honey – 1 teaspoon;
- lemon juice – 1 tbsp.
Cooking method:
- Wash the fruits, remove the seeds from the apples. Separate the grapes from the branch.
- Cut the banana into slices, leave the grapes whole.
- Cut the apple into large cubes. Sprinkle with lemon juice.
- Prepare the dressing: combine low-fat yogurt with honey.
- Place all ingredients in a bowl and pour over the dressing. Decorate the dessert at your own discretion (the version with the addition of a celery stalk is considered original).
With kiwi
Vitamin C helps the body strengthen its protective functions and is an excellent preventive substance against colds and viral diseases. An excellent source of this vitamin will be not only vegetables, but also kiwi salads. Children sometimes refuse this fruit because of the unpleasant appearance of the small black seeds, so if you are thinking about how to prepare a delicious dessert for your child's birthday, try carefully scraping out the seeds with a teaspoon.
Ingredients:
- kiwi – 2 pcs.;
- banana – 2 pcs.;
- tangerine – 2 pcs.;
- pomegranate – 1 pc.;
- orange syrup - 4 tablespoons.
Cooking method:
- Wash the fruits well and remove the skins. Separate the pomegranate into grains.
- Cut kiwi, banana, tangerine into small pieces.
- Lay out all the fruits in layers, interspersing them with pomegranate seeds.
- Drizzle with orange syrup and garnish with fresh mint leaves or whipped cream.
Watch the video and prepare a fruit salad according to the suggested recipe.
For children
The child will love the beautiful design of the dessert, so instead of a salad bowl or bowl, it is recommended to use a scraped half of a pineapple. An exotic option is to serve the dessert in a coconut shell, if you have one at your disposal. Remember that the salad recipe for children requires a balanced sugar content so that the fruit does not cause harm (do not provoke allergies, diathesis or gastritis). Choose those ingredients that your child loves most.
Ingredients:
- pineapple – 1 pc.;
- apple – 1 pc.;
- banana – 1 pc.;
- tangerine – 4 pcs.;
- grapes – 150 g;
- unflavored yogurt – 100 g.
Cooking method:
- Cut the pineapple in half and cut out the flesh with a knife.
- Chop it into small cubes.
- Wash the apple and grapes. Peel all fruits, remove seeds, branches, and cut into cubes.
- Mix all ingredients, place in pineapple halves, pour yogurt on top. You can decorate the dessert with bright paper umbrellas.
Fruit and ice cream dessert
Beautiful fruit dishes should be served cold so that the juice does not have time to drain to the bottom of the bowl and mix with the sauce. Fruit salad with ice cream is seasoned just before serving, so that the dessert does not turn into a liquid sweet porridge, but retains its most appetizing appearance (as in the photo). An original version will be obtained if you use not just ice cream, but fruit or berry sorbet based on natural juice.
Ingredients:
- · ice cream – 100 g;
- · kiwi – 1 pc.;
- · orange – 1 pc.;
- · strawberries – 7-8 pcs.;
- · pistachios – 50 g;
- · grated chocolate – 50 g.
Cooking method:
- Peel the kiwi and orange and cut into large pieces.
- Cut the strawberries into quarters and mix with the rest of the ingredients.
- Chop the pistachios.
- Layer: fruit, ice cream, then chopped pistachios.
- Decorate the dessert with grated chocolate.
With sour cream
A variety of dressings allows you to adapt the classic dessert to the individual preferences of any person. For example, a fruit salad with sour cream, especially if you use a not very fatty product, is suitable for those who are on a diet. Try to combine sweet and sour fruits so that they harmonize better with the fermented milk sauce.
Ingredients:
- pear – 2 pcs.;
- grapes - 1 bunch;
- persimmon – 1 pc.;
- orange – 1 pc.;
- sour cream – 100 grams;
- granulated sugar (to taste).
Cooking method:
- Wash all fruits thoroughly, then peel.
- Cut the pear into cubes, sprinkle with lemon juice to prevent it from darkening, or immediately mix with orange.
- Remove the grapes from the branch and leave whole.
- Place in layers in a bowl: orange, grapes, persimmon, pear. Grease each layer with sour cream, adding sugar to taste.
- If you want to make the dessert sweeter, add chocolate on top.
From berries
Summer dishes made from fruits and berries are universal and healthy; they can be served on a holiday table or as a snack on a weekday. The easiest time to decide how to prepare a light dessert will be in June or July, when fresh berries grow in your country house or appear on any market stall. At this time, you just need to choose the right dressing so as not to drown out the bright, expressive taste of fresh strawberries.
Ingredients:
- strawberries – 300 grams;
- blueberries – 100 grams;
- kiwi – 2 pcs.;
- banana – 1 pc.;
- cream – 5 tbsp. l.;/li>
- mint - for decoration.
Cooking method:
- Wash all the fruits thoroughly, peel the kiwi and banana. Remove stems and leaves from strawberries.
- Cut banana, kiwi, strawberries into thin slices, then place in a vase in layers, sprinkle with blueberries and pour over cream. If you have heavy cream at your disposal, you can beat it with sugar to make a cream.
- Garnish with mint leaves on top.
With cheese
If you are tired of vegetable dishes, but want something light and fresh, try the fruit and cheese platter - it is a combination of sweet and tart: if you season the appetizer with an original sauce, then homemade salad recipes with fruit and cheese will be in no way inferior to restaurant ones. Start getting acquainted with classic combination options.
Ingredients:
- goat cheese – 50 g;
- pear – 1 pc.;
- Romano or iceberg leaves - 2-3 pcs.;
- olive oil – 1 tbsp. l.;
- honey – 1 tsp;
- walnut – 2 tbsp. l.
Cooking method:
- Wash the pear, remove seeds. Cut into slices and fry in oil for a couple of minutes.
- Add chopped nut crumbs and honey to the pear and cook for another 2-3 minutes.
- Place hand-torn romaine leaves on plates and roasted pear on them. Season with sauce from the pan.
- Grate the goat cheese on a coarse grater and sprinkle on top.
- Using a similar recipe, you can prepare an appetizer with brie cheese (or Camembert) and grapes or figs.
With cottage cheese
A curd and fruit dessert is perfect for baby food, as it combines beneficial properties (due to the high calcium content) and a bright, delicate taste. There is no need to add additional sugar to this dish, so it is suitable even for those on a diet. Instead of cottage cheese, you can use soft cheeses to avoid excessive graininess in the dish (as in the photo). Cottage cheese goes well with low-fat yogurt or sour cream sauce.
Ingredients:
- mascarpone – 200 g;
- raspberry syrup – 5 tbsp. l.;
- banana – 1 pc.;
- orange – 1 pc.;
- dark chocolate;
- canned pineapple (pieces) – 150 g.
Cooking method:
- Cut the pineapple pulp into cubes, the banana into slices, and the orange into small pieces.
- Place mascarpone on the bottom of the bowl.
- Then mix the remaining ingredients, season with syrup and lay out the second layer.
- Top with chocolate pieces.
What to dress fruit salad with
If any sauces and oils are suitable for vegetables, then what should be the dressing for fruit salad? It should not interrupt the taste of the fruits and berries themselves, but only give them new shades. If you are trying to lose weight, choose low-fat fermented milk products (0% if possible). What is suitable as a dressing for fruit salad:
- Syrup (berry, fruit, chocolate).
- Caramel.
- Cream (liquid or whipped).
- Yogurt (flavored or unflavored).
- Sour cream.
- Berry, fruit juices.
- Condensed milk.
- Lemon juice.
Video
Fruit salad with yogurt is a fresh, sweet, dietary treat that both children and adults love. It can be served as a dessert for the holidays or to please yourself and your children on an ordinary day. There are a lot of recipes for delicious fruit salad with yogurt, so there will never be a problem that there are no necessary fruits on store shelves. And we can’t even count how many beautiful fruits grow in our dachas. During harvest time, fruit salads can delight you every day.
In today's recipes, the main and constant ingredient in salads will be yogurt, which will be a wonderful flavor addition and dressing for combining a variety of fruits and berries.
Read all our recipes and choose a fruit salad to suit your taste.
Fruit salad with yogurt classic
This is one of the simplest and most delicious fruit salad recipes. Thanks to the combination of fruits, its taste is perfectly balanced between sour and sweet and is therefore very popular with people of all ages.
For the salad you will need:
- banana - 1 piece,
- apple - 1 piece,
- kiwi - 1 piece,
- orange - 1 piece,
- pomegranate - 1/4 piece,
- classic yogurt.
Preparing the salad:
1. First of all, wash all the fruits thoroughly. Peel the banana and orange, cut the skin off the kiwi and, if necessary, peel the apple if its skin is too hard or small children will eat the salad. If you wish, you can remove the film from the orange slices; this will take some time, but it will be easier for kids to eat this salad.
2. Cut the banana into rings. Divide the kiwi lengthwise into four parts and then cut into large triangles. Do the same with the apple. Divide the orange into slices and cut each slice into three parts.
3. Add two tablespoons of classic yogurt to the chopped fruit and stir. Place fruit salad with yogurt in bowls, cups or wide glasses. Top with another dollop of yoghurt.
4. Sprinkle pomegranate berries on top of the salad and serve. All household members and guests will be delighted.
Do you know why this salad can be prepared at any time of the year? It's simple - these fruits are brought to us from warm countries and are available in stores almost all year round. Fruit salad for New Year? No problem. Children's party in summer? Lighter than easy.
Important secret! If you bought fruits for a salad, but realized that they turned out to be sour, which happens with oranges, kiwis, and even apples, do not rush to get upset. Fruit syrup will save your dessert. On the shelves of any supermarket there is a selection of delicious and sweet fruit syrups. Strawberry, raspberry, cherry, any of these and other syrups added to the salad will make it sweeter and more aromatic, as if you had added real berries.
Fruit salad with grapes, persimmons and yogurt “Autumn”
When sweet, aromatic persimmons ripen and juicy grapes are poured in, it’s the perfect time to prepare a stunning fruit salad with yogurt as a dressing from these fruits. You haven't tried persimmon salad yet, then be sure to do so.
For preparation you will need:
- bananas - 2-3 pieces,
- persimmon - one piece,
- kiwi - 2 pieces,
- red grapes - 1-2 bunches,
- pear - 1 piece,
- yogurt - 200 ml.
Preparation:
1. Peel the banana and kiwi. Remove the core from the persimmon and pear.
2. Cut the persimmon into cubes. Of course, ripe persimmons that don’t stick in your mouth are best.
3. Cut the pear into pieces of approximately the same size. If the pear has a hard skin, you can peel it. Any variety of sweet pear, such as conference or duchess, is suitable for a fruit salad. Use fruits that are not too hard, as the rest of the salad ingredients are soft fruits.
4. Cut the bananas into rings. Is it worth reminding that it is best to use ripe bananas, the flesh of which is not crunchy and the skin is not green. Unripe bananas ripen well in a dark place; put them in the cupboard for a day or two and then use them in cooking.
5. Slice the kiwi in the same way. If this fruit is too sour and you are worried that it will ruin the taste of the salad, add a spoonful of honey when dressing. This will help balance the taste.
6. You don’t have to cut the grapes, but if they seem too large, then divide each berry in half. This will help the salad become more saturated with grape flavor and aroma. Use seedless grapes with not too thick skins, then the salad will be pleasant to eat.
7. Finally, top the fruit salad with yogurt. Yogurt can be either classic, without flavoring, or fruit or berry to suit your taste. You can also use low-fat yogurt for a dietary treat.
If you let the salad sit for a while, literally 15-30 minutes, it will become even tastier, as the fruits will transfer their taste to each other and become saturated with juices. Everyone will definitely like it. Bon appetit!
Fruit salad with raspberries, pineapple and black currants
Another excellent version of fruit salad with yogurt contains not only fruits, but also berries, available in the gardens of a large number of compatriots. In the summer, when the currants on the bushes ripen, this salad can decorate an outdoor lunch in the country. And it is absolutely not necessary to run for fresh pineapple; you can use its canned version, and its syrup as an additive to yogurt when dressing.
To prepare you will need:
- pineapple - 200 grams,
- raspberries - 100 grams,
- black currants - 100 grams,
- strawberries - 200 grams,
- apples - 2 pieces,
- yogurt - 200 ml.
Preparation:
1. Peel the fruit. Cut the pineapple and apples into cubes. If you use canned pineapple, do not pour the syrup out of the can; you can use it to dress the salad if the berries and fruits are too sour.
2. Carefully wash all the berries. Be sure to let excess water drain out. Cut very large strawberries into halves.
3. Place fruits and berries in bowls or cups in layers. The bottom layer is raspberries and black currants.
4. Place pineapple and apples in the second layer. Top layer of strawberries.
5. Pour yoghurt and syrup to taste over the salad. Let the fruit salad brew for a while in the refrigerator and you can serve it on the table, garnishing with a few currants.
You can also prepare a separate dressing from yogurt and berries by blending them in a blender until smooth and pouring it over the finished salad. You can also add sweeteners in the form of sugar or honey to this dressing.
Bon appetit!
Fruit salad with yogurt, tangerines and peanuts
Any fruit salad can be wonderfully complemented with the taste of nuts. That's why we present you an original recipe for fresh salad with peanuts. Instead, you can take walnuts, pine nuts, and even sesame seeds. Choose the ones you love most. And of course, ripe sweet tangerines. This salad will be very appropriate at the New Year’s table and on any other holiday.
In order for children to be healthy, it is necessary to ensure that they eat salads every day. This is extremely important for a child! You should not teach them to eat unhealthy foods from childhood.
Incompatible products
It should be remembered that salads for children should contain only ingredients that are healthy for the child’s body. Therefore, you should immediately give up store-bought mayonnaise as a dressing, “kirieshki” and their analogues, which are made using chemical flavoring additives, mushrooms in any form, since they are poorly digestible by children, and sausages.
You can add boiled lean meat, poultry, and boiled eggs to vegetable salads for your child if your baby is not allergic to them. But then, under no circumstances should you crumble boiled potatoes into a dish, since they are a storehouse of carbohydrates that cannot be combined with proteins and fats.
Many kids simply love fruit and berry salads. Sometimes mothers experiment by making their own compositions from vegetables and fruits, adding nuts, raisins, and crushed crackers.
Ideally, salads for children are seasoned with sour cream, yogurt, vegetable oil, or simply sprinkled with lemon juice.
Simple salads for one-year-old babies
Familiarity with such dishes begins at a very early age. The very first children's salads are usually made from one ingredient. Most often this is grated apple, as it is best absorbed by the children's digestive system.
Then the mother tries to give the baby a salad of grated carrots. For the first acquaintance with this root vegetable, of course, after the juice, you just need to chop it as finely as possible, sprinkle with sugar and mash well to release the juice.
Then you can try to prepare such simple salads for children as carrot and apple. A little sugar and a drop of lemon juice will make the taste of the dish much more interesting. Banana is also a highly digestible product, so it should be included in the first salads.
Carrot-curd salad
If the baby is already accustomed to such food, you can diversify the salad for the child. 1 year of life is the foundation for health for all subsequent years. And at this time it is very important to include cottage cheese in your diet. Unfortunately, many children ignore this healthy product and refuse to eat it. A delicate salad of grated carrots with cottage cheese is very tasty. You can top it with your favorite yogurt. The original color and taste make the dish completely different from ordinary cottage cheese and will certainly delight your child. Such a dish will be much healthier than chocolate-covered cheese curds, which parents use to teach their baby to this super-healthy fermented milk product.
Salads with carrots, apples and raisins
But the child has already grown up. Salads for it can be made by including significantly more ingredients. And no longer should you grate carrots on a very fine grater. There are wonderful recipes for salads for children based on carrots and apples. These products are a storehouse of vitamins and microelements.
The most common salad is made from just shredded carrots and chopped apples, sprinkled with lemon juice and (optional) sugar syrup. Adding orange juice or pieces of this citrus fruit will improve the taste. But you should be careful and careful - oranges cause allergies in some children. Some mothers add steamed raisins to this salad. Almost all kids and adults like the spicy and amazing taste of this dish.
Salads based on carrots and beets
By the age of three, children should already eat beets not only boiled, but also raw. After all, when cooked, many beneficial properties of this truly magical root vegetable are lost. However, raw beets have a somewhat specific tart taste that can repel a baby. But if you prepare this delicious salad for children, including additional carrots, golden raisins, mint, orange and crushed nuts, then it can become the most favorite for the whole family. Of course, you can change the recipe as you wish; it is not necessary that all of the listed ingredients must be included in this dish. You can, for example, replace the orange with an apple, and exclude the mint altogether. And some people make this salad with fennel or kiwi fruits.
Season this divine dish with lemon juice. Then the container with the ingredients is tightly closed with a lid and vigorously shaken so that the vegetables give juice and mix well with the rest of the products.
Vegetables in a child's diet
Everyone knows how beneficial it is for children to eat a wide variety of vegetables. This is why it is so important to offer your baby vegetable salads for lunch before the first course. For children, they usually try not to put onions and garlic in them at first, since not all kids like them. But almost everyone likes cucumbers, tomatoes, cabbage, and sweet bell peppers. Children's salads can be prepared from one vegetable. And you can gradually increase the number of ingredients from two to several. They also include carrots, radishes, dill, parsley, white and red cabbage, and lettuce.
Season vegetable dishes with vegetable oil or sour cream and lightly add salt. But you can do without refueling. If you put the chopped ingredients in a bowl with a lid and shake the bowl thoroughly several times, the juice that has been released will completely replace it.
White cabbage is tasty and healthy
You can teach a child to eat cabbage from the moment he has all his milk teeth, that is, by the age of three. Usually mothers let their baby chew on a piece of this vegetable, choosing the juiciest places.
Cabbage salads are prepared together with carrots and apples. It is best to sprinkle chopped vegetables with sugar and sprinkle with lemon juice, and then knead thoroughly with your hands. Only after this add an apple to the salad and mix.
Older children can make cabbage salad with onions, onions or greens. Before seasoning this dish, it is also recommended to knead the ingredients with your hands so that the cabbage releases juice. Drizzle the salad with vegetable oil or sour cream.
Cauliflower in salads for children
This vegetable is very useful for both adults and children. But not all kids eat it with pleasure. Perhaps they don’t like the specific smell that cabbage acquires during the cooking process. Therefore, it is recommended to place a bay leaf in a pan with boiling water and cabbage inflorescences.
The hard stem, which is not always cooked, can also repel children, especially if the head is large. That’s why it’s better to use only inflorescences for children’s salads.
- The simplest cauliflower salad consists of chopped inflorescences boiled in salted water, sprinkled with parsley and dill. You can add lettuce and green onions, if, of course, the child loves them. It is recommended to season this salad with lemon juice, you can add vegetable oil.
- If you sprinkle the finished salad on top with ground breadcrumbs, you will get a different dish.
- The following recipe adds an ingredient such as boiled and diced potatoes.
- And some people add canned green peas to cabbage and potato salad - this is not for everyone.
- The well-known summer salad of tomatoes and cucumbers can be diversified and made more rich in vitamins. To do this, add chopped boiled cauliflower inflorescences to it.
- An amazing salad is made from boiled carrots, sweet bell peppers and lettuce leaves. Of course, you can’t do without cauliflower. She is the main component in this dish.
- By boiling additional green beans and chopping them, you can create a completely different dish based on the previous recipe.
- There is also a recipe for sweet cauliflower salad. He is also extremely useful but quite creative. Therefore, this option is not suitable for every child. But if your baby enjoys eating different salads, then you can bravely prepare such an original dish. It contains: cauliflower, tomatoes, fresh carrots, apples, cucumbers and plums. Only the cabbage is boiled. You can take 200 grams of it. 100 grams of tomatoes, apples, carrots and cucumbers are enough for this amount, draining is 2 times less. The plums are cut in half and the seeds are removed, the carrots are cut into strips or chopped on a coarse grater. Everything else is cut into cubes, poured with a dressing of vegetable oil with a small amount of lemon juice, mixed and sprinkled with powdered sugar on top. 50 grams is enough for such a salad.
You can awaken a child’s desire to try a new dish with the help of an interesting salad layout. By making a cheerful face out of a product or decorating a slide with “eyes” from olives, halves of small tomatoes, pieces of sweet pepper, “noses” and “mouths” from carrots or a slice of cucumber, it is easy to interest not only the baby, but also the younger schoolchild. And trying this dish yourself will probably be more enjoyable than the usual one.
Sweet salads
Kids especially love fruit salad. For children, the dressing is usually yogurt; you can use fruit and sweet ones. But sour cream, whipped with powdered sugar, is quite appropriate here. You can even make mint sugar syrup or use melted ice cream. Some people prepare their favorite cream, the kind that is used to decorate homemade cakes.
Any fruits and berries are suitable as ingredients. It is only important to thoroughly clean them from seeds and peels. If you use oranges, you need to remove only the orange skin with a knife, leaving a white layer. Scientists have proven that it contains even more vitamins and nutrients than the peeled slices themselves.
Pieces of watermelon arranged in the shape of a flower with an empty middle will help decorate the dish. The salad, placed inside these “petals,” is poured with sweet syrup or ice cream.
When it comes to preparing a salad, everyone usually immediately thinks of vegetable, meat, fish or... It turns out that salad can be sweet - it needs to be served. We are talking about fruit salads that you can prepare for your child in a matter of minutes! The composition varies depending on the child's preferences. Today we have this fruit salad with yogurt for afternoon snack.
Fruit salad with yogurt - Preparation:
Fruits must be washed thoroughly before peeling.
Then peel off the skin. For older children, the apple does not need to be peeled - it contains many vitamins, minerals and amino acids that are very useful for the child's body.
Then cut each fruit or divide it into small pieces. You can add some steamed raisins. The size of the pieces of fruit is determined based on the age of the child: small crumbs definitely need to cut all the fruits as finely as possible, while it is useful for older children to be given medium-sized pieces in order to develop the chewing muscle. By the way, fruit salad for babies can simply be pureed.
Then pour yogurt over the fruit. You can replace yogurt with an equal amount of sour cream - it will also turn out very healthy and tasty! Mix the fruit salad thoroughly. You don’t have to add sugar - it’s not that healthy for a child’s body. The presence of banana and raisins will add sweetness to the salad. Bon appetit!
