Winter Fruit Salad and Salsa with Persimmons

Winter fruit can make a great fruit salad.  For this remarkably good fruit salad that was made by fifth grade classes  we used -



Fuyu Persimmons
Oranges
Tangerines
Apples
Pomegranate Seeds
Mint
Lime Juice

Chopping Fruits and Vegetables for Salsa

In one of the fourth grade classes we made persimmon salsa with these basic ingredients

Fuyu Persimmons
Jicama
Cilantro
Oranges
Lime

We divided the class up into five different groups, each group made a slight variation.  One group substituted lemon juice for lime, another group added a pepper, another group added green tomato, one group got a little hot sauce.  There were some allergies to citrus and jicama so one group had no citrus and another had no jicama.  A hot pepper would have been a nice addition but I don't let students handle hot peppers.  When all the salsas were done the students had some time to sample each one and decide which they liked best.  I highly recommend this salsa especially now when the local tomatoes aren't very good.