How to make a froggy fruit salad
Follow this easy recipe to make a fun froggy fruit salad with Big Cook Little Cook.
- 1 small melon, Galia or Honeydew works well
- 1 pear, peeled and roughly diced
- A small bunch of grapes, washed
- 1 banana, peeled and sliced
- 1 kiwi, peeled. One half chopped into pieces and the other cut into thick slices
- Half a punnet of blueberries, washed
- 100g plain yoghurt
- Juice of half a lemon
- Icing eyes, you can buy these from supermarkets or online
- Mixing bowl
- Weighing scales
- Chopping board
- Sharp knife
- Blender
- Tablespoon
- Cocktail sticks
How to make this fun fruit salad
Follow these super simple instructions to make your own froggy fruit salad featuring melon, kiwi, grapes, bananas, pears and more! Don't forget, you can put any of your favourite fruits in the salad, just make sure to give them a wash first.
If you are having trouble with fussy eating in your family, use our tips and strategies to help you stay calm and cope with a child who’s picky about what they eat.
Method:
Don't forget to wash your hands before you start.
Make a smoothie pond
In a blender, pour in the plain yoghurt with a big handful of blueberries and whizz together. Ask your grown-up helper to help you do this as blenders can be very whizzy! If you don’t have a blender you could just mix the yoghurt and blueberries together with a spoon.
Pour your smoothie into a small bowl. (You can add a few blueberries on the top of the smoothie pond to represent frog eyes!)
Make a Froggy fruit salad
We are using a Honeydew melon to be our frog’s body. Ask your grown-up helper to very carefully cut out a large slice to be the mouth shape. You want a big mouth to make sure you can fit all your fruit salad inside!
Using a tablespoon, start scooping out the inside of the melon. If this is too difficult you can carefully score the inside of the melon to ease the lifting out of the flesh. You need enough space in the melon to add all of the chopped fruit in later.
Add all the scooped-out melon to a mixing bowl along with all of the other chopped fruit.
Squeeze in the lemon juice and stir gently to make sure all the fruit is covered. Top tip: The lemon juice will stop the fruit from going brown!
Carefully spoon all the fruit salad back into the scooped-out melon. If the melon keeps rolling around, you can ask your grown-up helper to carefully cut a thin slice on the bottom to make the melon sit flat on the plate.
Give our frog some googly froggy eyes. You can use two kiwi slices to be the eyes, and carefully attach these to the melon with two cocktail sticks. You could even add some red grape slices or even edible icing eyes to be the pupils.
For extra decoration, use the leftover slice of melon and carefully cut out two tiny froggy feet. To finish off your royal dish, give your Frog Prince a little paper crown! 👑
Handy tips for cooking with kids🍴
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