Indian Fruit Fusion

Here's my favorite fruit recipe for winter. Can be served as dessert or eaten with chapati, roti or puri. The beauty of this recipe is there is no specific proportion in which the fruits are to be taken. Curds should be sufficient to cover the fruits.  

 

Method

 

Take any of the following fruits-

Apples, bananas, chikoo, guava - diced

oranges, sweet limes – peel off the thin skin off the individual slices and then halve each slice.

Pomegranate peeled

Green seedless grapes – you can halve these

Raisins, sultanas – soaked in water for 15 minutes

Almonds, cashewnuts, walnut – chopped

 

In a bowl add thick curds. Add sugar to taste. Whip this mixture with a spoon. Add the chopped fruit. Stir to mix.

Refrigerate till cold.

Serve.  

Fruits & Udupi

Am just back from a wonderful trip to jungles of Karnataka.

This fruit stall was in a vegetable market at Udupi, a small town. The owner saw my camera and was insistent that I photograph his stall.

Jackfruit and bananas are a staple out here. The bananas are small but very sweet.
For those not in the know, jackfruit is a huge green fruit with a tough, prickly rind. It turns yellow on ripening. Inside are seeds encased in thick fleshy covers. These fleshy covers are sweet to taste and are eaten. The seed is boiled and cooked as vegetable or eaten with a little salt. A vegetable is also prepared from the raw jackfruit after removing its skin.

The fruit emits a very strong smell and may need getting used to.

Sringeri (a town of religious significance) had some shops selling great-tasting banana and jackfruit chips.