Ingredients:

Apple cubed 1/2 cup
Pineapple cubed 1/2 cup
Pomegranate pearls 1/2 cup
Papaya cubed 1/2 cup
Banana cubed 1/2 cup
Purple grapes 1/2 cup
Green grapes 1/2 cup
Sweet Orange – pulp 1/2 cup
Sugar 1/2 cup
Lemon juice few spoons.For decoration:Honey 1 cup for decoration
Cherry for decoration
Mint leaves for decoration
Store bought Vanilla Ice cream – 1 jar
Sliced almonds for decoration
Chilled glass-goblets or cups for serving.Fruit Selection:Apple: Wash apple several times in water. Then pat dry them. Either peel the skin or retain it. While dicing them. Smear 1 spoon of lemon juice immediately. The citric acid stops the discoloration. Avoid seeds plus seed-jacket.Pineapple: Carefully remove them thick pineapple’s jacket. Remove the central stem too. Then cube only the pulp. Try to buy firm fruit from the market with rich color and fragrance. Do not contaminate the salad with pineapple’s tough skin.

Papaya: Buy firm, rich colored & fragrant fruit. Scoop away the seeds. Peel their skin off. Dice them. Use only firm fruits.

Purple and Green Grapes: Buy seedless sweet in taste fruits. The one with rich color will be sweet enough. Remove their tiny stalks. Wash them and pat dry them too.

Orange: Buy the fruit, which has loose jacket. Remove the jacket, Carefully incise the pulp without breaking it. Remove the seeds and thin fibers as well. Retain the pulp. Discard the juice spilled around.

Pomegranate: Buy the fruit which has rich colored pearls. Make a thin slit through the leathery skin, then break them up…it should loosen the seeds inside. Now, carefully separate the pearls without any particles.

Bananas: Select only firm and at the same time ripe fruit. Dice them and smear them with lemon juice.

Fruit Salad Preparation:

Mix all the diced and cubed fruits together in a large bowl. Sprinkle sugar to this and place in the refrigerator for couple of hours.

Serving Fruit Salad with Ice-Cream:

Now place this chilled fruits in glass goblets or cups. Place one or two scoops of ice-cream on the top. Run few spoons of honey on ice-cream. Place a cherry fruit and few mint leaves over this. Sprinkle sliced almonds on the top. Serve chilled. Repeat the same for all the cups.