Alton Brown's Fruit Salad

Good Eats

Alton Brown

Vanilla extract is strong stuff and large doses that takes over whatever team it’s supposed
to be playing for. It’s small doses however that becomes a subtle agents of unification
casing point a humble fruit salad. I have here 1 Granny Smith apple cored and diced, 1
cup of seedless grape halve 1 pear peeled, cored and diced 10 to 12 medium strawberries
halved 1 mango peeled and diced, 1 banana sliced and 1/3 of a cup of toasted chop
walnuts.

Now if I just mix this all together we’ll have ourselves a very nice salad. You know
here’s the thing about fruit salad. A lot of these flavors don’t really get along with each
other and of course it’s actually kind of hard to eat. Vanilla extract with some friends wil
rescue us. 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract, 1 teaspoon of lemon juice, 1 teaspoon of honey
just squeeze that right out of the pears head and approximate, about a ¼ teaspoon of salt,
a few grinds pepper ½ cup of plain yogurt and ¼ cup of mayonnaise stir to combine.
There and I think a little more black pepper would be a good thing.

Now this is a fruit salad that actually stays nicely on the fork. It taste fabulous could that
be a dessert, it could be heck it could be a meal by itself, it could be a salad whatever you
want and If you keep it covered, it will keep up to a week in the refrigerator.