Fruits are an essential snack in my house and I look for different ways to make it interesting. My boys are fine just eating the fruits and do not ask for anything else, but when I see all the colorful fruits salads being served, I get tempted to try something different. My aunt, back in India, always sent a big snack box of chopped mixed fruits to college for my cousins. After I saw that, I started giving my boys a variety of fruits for snacks instead of just a single one. When I was researching for a different variety of fruit salad, I saw this Mexican fruit salad which had a delicious crema topping. Crema means cream in Mexican and a combination of condensed milk and sour cream is used as crema. I used vanilla flavored Greek yogurt instead of sour cream in my Bionico.
Bionico is very simple with chopped up variety of seasonal fruit mixed with crema and topped with granola and shredded coconut. Sometimes honey and raisins are also used as a topping. I used honey to sweeten the fruits and used some cinnamon in the crema.
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Soups
Appetizers / Snacks
Breads and Rolls
Entrees
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Preparation time – 10 minutes
Cooking time – none
Difficulty level – easy
Ingredients to make Bionico – serves 4
- Banana – 1
- Apple – 1
- Grapes – 15
- Strawberry – 5 to 6
- Condensed milk – ½ can
- Greek yogurt (can be substituted with sour cream) – 1 cup (I used vanilla flavor)
- Cinnamon – 1 tsp
- Honey – 2 tbsp
- Granola – for topping
- Shredded coconut – for topping
Procedure –
- Chop up all the fruits into tiny pieces. Drizzle the honey over the fruits and mix them up.
- In another bowl, combine the yogurt, condensed milk and cinnamon.
- You could either mix up the fruits with the crema or layer as I did. I added some crema and then fruits and then some crema and more fruits and topped with granola and coconut for my Bionico.
Srivalli Jetti says
Awesome clicks Sandhya, very nice!
cookingwithsapana says
Mexican style fruit salad looks so colorful and exotic.
Dannii says
What a delicious twist on a traditional fruit salad. I am loving all the colours going on in the glass.
Sandhya Ramakrishnan says
Thanks Dannii! The colors were beautiful and loved the texture 🙂
Jemma @ Celery and Cupcakes says
This looks so good! I love fruit salads.
Sandhya Ramakrishnan says
Thanks Jemma!
Elizabeth says
Mmm now that is my kind of breakfast! We’re big fans of fresh fruit in our house too.
CC says
What a super healthy and delicious snack or breakfast! Perfect for all ages, too!
Sandhya Ramakrishnan says
My boys loved it! Thanks.
Amanda Mason says
I love how simple this is! Sometimes I have a tendency to make things more complicated than they should be! This recipe is the perfect example…you dont need complicated….simple is sometimes best! I love that you topped it with coconet and even granola sounds so yummy!
Sandhya Ramakrishnan says
I am the same way Amanda and when I make something like this I wonder why I always complicate things. The granola was a great choice as it gave a different texture to the salad.
swathi says
Looks delicious love to try it .
Sandhya Ramakrishnan says
Thanks Swathi! Do try it.
themadscientistskitchen says
Wow this looks and sounds amazingly delicious.
Sandhya Ramakrishnan says
Thanks Archana!