Tropical Fruit Salad With Creamy Lime Sauce

Prep: 15 mins

Cook: 0 mins

Difficulty: Easy

Servings: 16 Servings

When you think about dessert, the first thing that pops into your mind is usually a baked good of some sort. Cakes, cookies, cupcakes, brownies, bars — I’ll stop a minute so you can wipe away the drool — but more often than not, what I really crave is a lime-laden fruit salad with a sweet sauce so smooth you’ll almost forget about those oven-based snacks!

Ingredients

1 large papaya, peeled, seeded and diced
1 pineapple, peeled, cored and diced
6 large bananas, peeled and sliced
1 cup marachino cherries, halved (optional)
5 limes, juiced
Zest of 1 lime
1 cup shredded coconut
4 cups crema (Mexican table cream — crème fraiche will also do)
3 tablespoons agave or honey
Juice of 1 lime
Zest of 1 lime

Instructions

Prep all of the fruit and as it is sliced, add it to the largest bowl you have.
Next, mix the juice into the fruit and stir to combine. Add the coconut and lime zest and stir once more to evenly coat fruit.
At this point the dish can either be served or stored in the refrigerator for up to a week — though we doubt it lasts that long.
To make the sauce for the top mix crema, agave, lime juice and lime zest until thoroughly mixed. Stir before serving each time mixture is removed from refrigerator, where it can be stored for up to 3 days.