Spicy Fruit Salad with Chia

Ensalada de fruta picante con chia

Chili powder on fruit? Yes.

Enjoy this versatile Mexican fruit salad, ensalada de fruta, prepared with jicama, pineapple, watermelon, Tájin chili powder, and chia seeds. It's crunchy, tart, sweet, and spicy. Prep time is only ten minutes. Think of this recipe as more of a set of suggestions than rigid instructions that you can’t deviate from.

Mix and match your favorite fruits and this salad will be great every time. The chia seeds add a nice extra crunch and some nutrition too.

Fruit with chili and lime is the best

If you have never tried eating fruit with chili powder and lime juice you are in for a treat. Sweet goes really well with spicy and acidic. We used ubiquitous Tajín brand chili powder. It's our favorite and it’s easy to find at many supermarkets in the U.S.

How to Make

Ingredients

• ¼ watermelon

• 1 small pineapple

• 1 medium jicama 6” to 7” inches across

• Juice from 1 ½ Mexican Limes

• 1 ½ tsp. Tajín chili powder

• 1 tbsp. chia seeds

Instructions

• Remove the skin from the jicama and cut into 1 ½” x ½” pieces. (Learn how to peel jicama)

• Remove the skin from the pineapple and cut into 1” pieces.

• Cut the watermelon into 1” pieces and remove the seeds.

• Put the cut-up fruit into a serving bowl. Squeeze the juice of the limes over the fruit.

• Sprinkle the Tajín Chile powder then the chia seeds over the fruit.

• Serve immediately.

Notes

• The salad will keep for a day in the fridge if you don’t put the lime juice, chili powder and, chia on it. Sprinkle these ingredients on when you are ready to serve.

• Orange, mango, and papaya are good options for a fruit salad.

Kitchen Spanish

• Salad = ensalada

• Watermelon = sandía

• Pineapple = piña

• Jicama = jicama

• Lime = limón

• Salt = sal

Let us know what you think of the recipe. Provecho!

More Mexican Salads

Try our Cuernavaca style cucumber salad.

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Spicy Mexican fruit salad recipe adapted from our original blog, The Mexican Food Journal.