Refreshing pomegranate salsa
 
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The colourful fruit salsa is full of health-promoting antioxidants and will make your insides smile!
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Recipe type: Appetiizer
Serves: 6-8
Ingredients
  • Arils from 1 pomegranate
  • 1 Orange, seedless with peel removed, cut into bite-sized pieces
  • 1 Mandarin orange, cut into bite-sized pieces
  • ½ cup dried fruit (raisins, dried blueberries, dried cherries, dried cranberries)
  • 2 Celery stalks, diced
  • 1 Apple diced, unpeeled
Instructions
  1. Slice the pomegranate in half and remove the arils.  I find it easiest and least messy to remove the pomegranate arils under water in a large bowl.  Take out the arils and put into a bowl (herein called the salsa bowl).
  2. Section the orange and cut into bite-sized pieces.  To do this, cut the ends of the orange.  Then, slices the peel off, vertically, following the shape of the orange.  Once you have removed the peel, hold the orange and cut out the orange flesh, in between the natural segments of the orange. Then cut into bite-sized pieces and add to the salsa bowl.
  3. Similarly with the mandarin orange, peel and cut into bite-sized pieces and add to the salsa bowl (picture not shown).
  4. Add in the dried fruit into the salsa bowl.  In keeping with a holiday theme, I used dried cherries (that I cut in half) and dried cranberries.  I could have used any combination of dried fruit.
  5. Dice the celery into bite-sized pieces.  Add to the salsa bowl.
  6. Dice the unpeeled apple.  Have the apple sit on the cutting board.  Make small slices of apple, all around the core.  Then cut into match sticks.  Then, rotate the match-stick apples 90 degrees and dice into bite-sized pieces of apple.  Add to the salsa bowl.  Because of the acid from the oranges, the apple's flesh will not turn brown.
  7. Stir the ingredients all together and serve!
Recipe by Energize Nutrition at https://energizenutrition.ca/refreshingpomegranatesalsa/