Get your 5-a-day in a fun way! Chop up some fruit and thread it onto a skewer to make delicious fruity kebabs. Choose from the different flavours suggested below or mix and match your own choice of fruit. Finish the kebabs with a fruity yoghurt topping for a refreshing pudding at any time of year.
Ingredients
Autumn Appetiser
1 apple
1 pear
16–18 blackberries
1 small lemon (juice only)
Summer Skewer
½ honeydew melon
12 strawberries
1 satsuma
12 grapes (seedless)
1 small lemon (juice only)
Totally Tropical
2 kiwi fruit
12–14 pineapple chunks
(canned in own juice) OR ½ fresh pineapple
1 banana
1 small lemon (juice only)
Toppings (optional)
2 x 125g pots low-fat fruit yoghurt, Greek yoghurt OR fromage frais
2 x 15ml spoons muesli
Equipment
Colander
Chopping board
Sharp knife
Can opener (optional)
Juice squeezer
Bowl
Skewers or cocktail sticks
For the toppings:
Bowl
Spoon
Measuring spoons
Instructions
- Wash the fruit.
- Peel the banana, kiwi, melon or satsuma (if using).
- Hull the strawberries or remove the green stalks with a sharp knife.
- Chop the fruit into 2cm cubes but leave the grapes, strawberries and blackberries whole.
- Separate the satsuma into segments (if using).
- Open the can of pineapple chunks (if using) and drain away the juice. If you are using fresh pineapple, cut away the outer skin and core and cut into bite-sized cubes.
- Squeeze the juice from the lemon, pour over the fruit and mix well.
- Thread the fruit onto skewers or cocktail sticks.
- Prepare any toppings. Spoon the yoghurt or fromage frais into bowls.
- Sprinkle on muesli (if using).
- Spoon your topping onto the kebabs.
Top Tips
- Make sure the fruit is ripe. You may need to buy it several days in advance and allow it to ripen first.
- Apples, pears and bananas will turn brown once chopped, but adding lemon juice helps prevent this happening.
Something to try next time
- Try making veggie kebabs instead. Use 100g of reduced-fat Cheddar cheese and a 10cm piece of cucumber, both cut into 1½cm cubes, 8 cherry tomatoes and 8 prunes. You could use 50g reduced-fat cream cheese as a dip.
- Alternatively, try 200g of feta cheese, a red pepper and an avocado all chopped into 1½cm cubes.
- Make warm fruit kebabs. The Autumn Appetiser kebab can be grilled for 5 minutes, turning regularly until the fruit is just browned. Sprinkle with 1 x 5ml spoon of ground cinnamon.
- Try using different varieties of fruit.
