Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Fruit Salsa

This is soooooooo gooooooood!  Takes a little bit of time, but it is worth it. It is not a hot salsa at all - it is made up of fruit and is sweet.  Great to make in the summer when you can actually get a strawberry that is not from a laboratory.

Chips:  Take the smaller white tortillas (from the refrigerated section of the Mexican aisle), spray them with a little water (I use my ironing board spray bottle).  Sprinkle on a lot of cinnamon-sugar mixture.  Bake at 350 for about 8-10 minutes.  Let cool and cut into sixths. You will have to cook 2 at a time on a cookie sheet.  While cooking.......

Salsa:  Cut up seasonal fruit into small bites.  Use whatever you like, but make sure you have some apples for crunch.  I like to use strawberries, grapes, kiwi, pears, peaches and/or blueberries.  Mix with enough apple jelly to make a "salsa" consistency.  (Educational tidbit:  the jelly keeps the fruit from going brown.)  Let set in the refrigerator for an hour or so.  Drain and serve in a chip/dip bowl - or whatever you have.  Dip the cinnamon chips into the fruit for a low-cal taste of summer (Warning - not low-cal if you eat 200, which you will want to do).

Update:  Skip the chip making and buy Stacy's Cinnamon Sugar Pita Chips. A great invention!