Fruit kebabs

Eat your way towards 5-a-day! Chop up some fruit and thread it onto a skewer to make delicious fruity kebabs. Choose from the different flavours provided 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. 

Fruitkebabs

Equipment

  • Weighing scales

  • Colander

  • Chopping board

  • Can opener

  • Bowl

  • Cocktail sticks

Method

  • Step 1

    Wash the fruit.

  • Step 2

    Peel the banana, kiwi, melon or satsuma, if using.

  • Step 3

    Hull the strawberries or remove the green stalks with a sharp knife.

  • Step 4

    Chop the fruit into 2cm cubes but leave the grapes, strawberries and blackberries whole.

  • Step 5

    Separate the satsuma into segments, if using.

  • Step 6

    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 cut into bite-sized cubes.

  • Step 7

    Squeeze the juice from the lemon, pour over the fruit and mix well.

  • Step 8

    Thread the fruit onto skewers or cocktail sticks.

  • Step 9

    Prepare any toppings. Spoon the yoghurt or fromage frais into bowls.

  • Step 10

    Sprinkle on muesli if using.

  • Step 11

    Spoon your topping onto the kebabs.

Ingredients

Makes:
Serves 4
AUTUMN APPETISER
juice of 1/2 lemon
1
apple
1
pear
16-18
blackberries
SUMMER SKEWER
juice of 1/2 lemon
1/2
honeydew melon
12
strawberries
1
satsuma
12
grapes (seedless)
TOTALLY TROPICAL
juice of 1/2 lemon
2
kiwi fruit
12-14
pineapple chunks
1
banana
TOPPINGS - CHOOSE FROM THE FOLLOWING:
1 x 15ml spoon
muesli
1 x 125g pot
fruit yoghurt, Greek yoghurt or fromage frais

Top tip(s)

 

• Make sure the fruit is ripe. You may need to buy it several days in advance and allow it to ripen first. 

Something to try next time

  • Try making veggie kebabs instead. Use 8 cherry tomatoes, 8 prunes, 100g Cheddar cheese and a 10cm piece of cucumber both cut into 1 1/2cm cubes. You could use 50g low-fat cream cheese as a dip.

  • Alternatively, try 200g feta cheese, a red pepper and an avocado all chopped into 1 1/2cm 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 ground cinnamon.

  • Try using different varieties of fruit.