Fruit salad

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Fruit salad is a refreshing dish you can make to suit everyone’s tastes. Whether you like bananas, pineapple and strawberries all in one bowl, or apple mixed with melon and grapes, fruit salads are a wonderful way to enjoy a mix of your favourite flavours. This recipe is great way to help 5-6-year-olds develop their cutting techniques by chopping up the ingredients.

This toolkit contains a recipe, along with ideas about how you could include it in your lesson. Take a look at the recipe below and refer to it alongside the teaching resources. 

The cooking skills and recipes have been developed in collaboration with the British Nutritional Foundation.

Fruit salad

Equipment

  • Colander

  • Chopping board

  • Knife

  • Bowl

  • Spoon

  • Measuring spoons

Method

  • Step 1

    Wash the strawberries and grapes.

  • Step 2

    Peel the satsumas and separate into segments.

  • Step 3

    Pull the stalks from the strawberries.

  • Step 4

    Halve each strawberry. ADULT SUPPORT.

  • Step 5

    Pull the grapes off the stalks.

  • Step 6

    Peel the bananas and carefully slice into small pieces. ADULT SUPPORT.

  • Step 7

    Place all of the fruit in a bowl and mix together.

  • Step 8

    Add the orange juice.

Ingredients

Makes:
4
5
strawberries
8
seedless red grapes
8
seedless white grapes
2
satsumas
2
bananas
2 x 15ml spoons
orange juice

Top tip(s)

Try using different types of fruit, such as peeled and sliced kiwi, chunks of fresh mango or canned pineapple pieces.

Use other types of fruit juice instead of orange juice.

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