In the southeast Asia, India, dragon fruit on a regular day wouldn’t pass as your first choice during grocery shopping, but a glimpse at the attractive bright strawberry pink color traps your attention and you leave the store with a bag of some fresh dragon fruits. In this week’s post, you will learn how to buy fresh dragon fruit when next you visit the fruit vendors, how to cut the unique looking fruit and also 5 ways to eat and enjoy this delectable and highly nutritious fruit.
HOW DO YOU BUY FRESH DRAGON FRUIT?
Dragon fruits are juicy, slightly sweet fruit loaded with mind blowing nutritional values for health, skin and overall preservation of lifestyle, when you are at the fruit section of the market and decide to buy some dragon fruits ensure you consider this following on how to buy good dragon fruit:
- Press the fruit slightly with your fingertips, if it’s soft, that’s a good one (Soft not over ripely soft).
- A good and fresh dragon fruit should have an attractive pink color (outer look) with no trace of dark spots or bruises.
5 WAYS TO ENJOY DRAGON FRUIT
Dragon fruit is a unique fruit that allows for creative recipes and styles of serving, if you want to enjoy a dragon fruit themed recipe here are 5 ways to eat dragon fruit:
- This tropical nutritious fruit can be enjoyed as a delicious smoothie alongside other nutritious fruits; like mango, banana and coconut. In your blender, toss in some frozen dragon fruit chunks, banana chunks, pineapple and coconut water and blend till creamy, pour into your preferable glass and enjoy.
- Dragon fruit’s is a delicious and rich ingredient in your salad bowl, so use it to add a pop of subtle sweetness to a spinach salad. Sprinkle a handful of diced fresh dragon fruit to prepare salad bowl.
- A splash of dragon fruit in your ice-cream is a yummy delight to your tastebud, add a dash of cinnamon for more refined taste or add dragon fruit to your strawberry ice cream for a tropical twist.
- Dragon fruit kebabs makes a nutritious snack for your children, cut fresh dragon fruits and other firm fruit of your choice, clean your kebab sticks and pass fruits neatly through the sticks, lightly brown the kebabs on grill, finally sprinkle little icing sugar and serve immediately.
- Dragon fruit can simply be enjoyed, by scooping the edible fruits in a clean bowl (preferably ice-cream scooper), drizzle some honey, granola or favorite nut choice.
HOW TO CUT DRAGON FRUIT
There is a popular belief that dragon fruit may look intimidating with the bright pink color and spikey green leaves, first time shoppers might wonder how to go about the unique looking fruit popularly called pitaya or strawberry pear, but we promise this fruit is super easy to eat. Once you’ve properly washed your fruits and clean sharp kitchen knife, to cut up your dragon fruit you have to:
- First place it on a flat surface (preferably cutting board) and slice it down the middle with a clean knife.
- The outer skin is not to be eaten, to separate it from the edible soft fruit inside, get a spoon gently release the fruit from the edges or peel the outer skin off with your knife.
- For a quick fruit snack, you can eat the edible fruit right out of the skin using a spoon.