Maya Fruit Salad on a Hot Day

Maya fruit salad

Maya Fruit Salad


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Take a very hot day, 

Peel a grapefruit, a sour orange, and a blood orange take the pieces apart and cut each piece in half.

Take another grapefruit and squeeze the juice into a bowl

Cut a few chucks of Jicama

Add a few snippets of cilantro,

and a hint of fresh ground pepper.

Mix together with the grapefruit juice. Chill.

 

Maya fruit salad on a hot day

Serve cold in a *Calabash bowl with a spoon.

 

Yucatan colors

(A *calabash is a gourd from a tree. The calabash gourd is cut in half, emptied, and dried. It will turn brown when completely dried. It can be decoratively carved. The Maya used the calabash gourds as cups or as bowls.)



Comments

9 responses to “Maya Fruit Salad on a Hot Day”

  1. Yummmm! Sounds refreshing and oh so good.

  2. Looks yummy and hydrating Corey. I bet a little mint would be nice too! If I close my eyes, I can see myself there, with you, on the terrace, eating salad and having a laugh…
    Enjoy the rest of your stay!

  3. I’d never defile luscious fresh fruit with cilantro! The world is reportedly divided into two camps: Those who like it, and those who loathe the stuff. I tried growing my own one year, and to us it tasted like a cross between soap and the way cat-pee smells — try to imagine shampooing Stinky Cat and you have some idea…

  4. what a time…lucky you.

  5. Looks and sounds delicious!
    I love cilantro. When I encountered it for the first time, buying it by accident instead of flat, Italian parsley, I did not like its “soapy” flavor. 😉
    You mention bitter oranges. Have you encountered any bergamot oranges?

  6. Perfect for summer breakfast.

  7. Yummy, that does look good, it’s a hot day here too. wish I had a bowl of that.

  8. jend’isère

    Olé to true refreshment brightening a dreary rainy French weekend.

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