Fresh Fruit Cocktail (Cóctel de Frutas)
Cóctel de frutas is the fresh Latin American fruit cocktail: mango, papaya, green apple and strawberry cut small and dressed with honey and the juice of three oranges. No cream, no syrup, no cooking. It is not the canned fruit cocktail sold in US supermarkets, which is peach and pear in syrup. Ten minutes, serves four.
Servings: 4
Calories: 121kcal
Ingredients
- 1 cup mango, not too ripe, cut into small cubes firm mango dices cleanly; a ripe one turns to purée under the knife
- 1 cup papaya, cut into small pieces
- Honey, to taste about 2 tablespoons suits this much fruit; ripe fruit needs less
- 1 cup green apple, cut into thin half-moons green apple for the tartness against the honey
- 1 cup strawberries, sliced
- 3 oranges, juiced about ¾ to 1 cup of juice
Instructions
- Put the mango, papaya, apple and strawberries in a large bowl. Cut everything to roughly the same size, so that one spoonful picks up more than one fruit.
- Add the honey and the orange juice. The juice should come partway up the fruit rather than cover it: this is fruit dressed with juice, not fruit floating in it.
- Stir gently, so the strawberries and papaya do not break up, and serve cold. The acid in the orange juice slows the apple from browning, which is why this holds better than a dry fruit salad.
Notes
Top it however you like: whipped cream, milk, granola or cereal, yogurt, ice cream, or more fruit. Any of those turn it into a fuller dessert. On its own it is the light one, with no dairy at all and nothing but honey to sweeten it.
Nutrition
Calories: 121kcal | Carbohydrates: 30g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 5mg | Potassium: 408mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 24g | Vitamin A: 986IU | Vitamin C: 105mg | Calcium: 29mg | Iron: 1mg