You can vary the fruit used according to your taste and the season, but the following recipe makes a fabulous summer fruit salad to top up your vitamin CWhat it does: Strengthens immune system – fights infections. Makes collagen, keeping bones, skin and joints firm and strong. Antioxidant, detoxifying pollutants and protecting against… levels and help cure any hangovers. The blended yoghurt and fruit make a delicious fresh smoothie for pouring over the fruit salad and along with the seeds provides proteinProteins are large molecules consisting of chains of amino acids. Proteins are essential nutrients for the human body – they are a building block of… and essential fats, which help the heart, skin, brain and hormones. This dish should be served straightaway.
Serves 4
Ingredients
seeds of half a pomegranate
12 handfuls strawberries, hulled and chopped 8 handfuls blueberries
2 bananas, thinly sliced
4 apricots or plums, or 2 peaches or nectarines, stoned and chopped
12 tbsp live natural yoghurt, kefir (see page 59) or soya yoghurt
8 handfuls fresh berries of your choice
a little xylitolXylitol is a completely natural sweetener that looks and tastes like sugar. It is naturally occurring in many fruits and vegetables…. or agave syrup (or honey) to taste 4 tbsp ground or pre-cracked linseeds
2 tbsp pumpkin seeds 2 tbsp sunflower seeds 2 tbsp wheatgerm
Directions
1 Mix the pomegranate seeds, strawberries, blueberries, bananas and apricots together and divide between four bowls.
2 Blend the yoghurt or kefir with the other fresh berries and, if required, sweeten to taste with the xylitol, agave syrup.
3 Pour the blended fruit yoghurt over the fruit salad, and sprinkle the seeds and wheatgerm on top.
Cook’s Notes
Gluten-free, wheat-free, dairy-free if you use soya yoghurt • V
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