Easy Thai Fruit Salad Recipe

Prep: 15 mins

Cook: 0 mins

Total: 15 mins

Servings: 6 servings

This beautiful Thai fruit salad recipe is a taste of paradise. Tropical fruit is tossed together in a sweet coconut-lime fruit salad dressing that enhances but never overwhelms the luscious taste of the fruit. You can also make it with a combination of tropical and local fruit.

Choose your own combination of fruit for this easy, fresh fruit salad. If you are making it for a party, consider serving your fruit salad in a pineapple boat for a great presentation that will have the other guests envious. Some tropical fruit, such as star fruit, add an extra visual punch.​

Ingredients

• 1 cup pineapple cubes, fresh, canned, or frozen

• 1 banana, sliced

• 1 cup mango, peeled and cubed, use frozen if fresh, ripe mangoes are unavailable

• 1 cup lychee fruit, if using canned, discard the liquid

• 1 star fruit, peeled and sliced

• 1 to 2 cups strawberries

For the Dressing:

• 1/4 cup coconut milk

• 1 tablespoon lime juice, freshly squeezed

• 2 to 3 tablespoons sugar, to taste

Steps to Make It

1. Stir the Dressing ingredients (coconut milk, lime juice, sugar) together in a cup until sugar dissolves.

2. Place all fresh fruit in a mixing bowl.  Pour the dressing over the fruit and toss well to mix.

3. Pour or scoop the fruit salad into a serving bowl or into a carved-out pineapple. For instructions, see: how to make a pineapple boat.

4. Garnish just before serving with a star fruit slice.

5. Refrigerate if you are not serving immediately.

Tip

• To keep starfruit from going brown after slicing, simply drizzle it with some fresh lime or lemon juice.

Tropical Fruit Preparation Tips

Have you ever browsed the produce at an Asian or international market and longed to try some of the interesting tropical fruit? You may have been intimidated because you didn’t know how to prepare them. You didn’t want to get caught trying to eat the inedible skin or mangling a fruit because you didn’t know how to peel and seed it. As a result, you paid extra for pre-cut fruit that might not have been at its peak flavor. For tips and instructions on how to prepare more tropical fruit, see:

 

• How to Prepare Fresh Papaya

• How to Prepare Fresh Mango

• How to Prepare Fresh Pineapple

• How to Prepare Fresh Dragon Fruit

• How to Prepare Fresh Star Fruit: The star of the show, you’ll want to track this down to give your fruit salad the best presentation.

Nutrition Facts
Servings: 6
Amount per serving
Calories	157
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 3g	3%
Saturated Fat 2g	9%
Cholesterol 0mg	0%
Sodium 4mg	0%
Total Carbohydrate 35g	13%
Dietary Fiber 3g	12%
Total Sugars 29g
Protein 2g
Vitamin C 78mg	389%
Calcium 21mg	2%
Iron 1mg	5%
Potassium 344mg	7%
*The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.