Bionico – Mexican Fruit Salad
Bionico Mexican Fruit Salad is a refreshing, satisfying, and perfectly sweet and creamy breakfast or special treat. It is a traditional Mexican dessert that can be made in under 30 minutes.
Fruits are an essential snack in my house, and I look for different ways to make them interesting. My boys are fine, just eating the fruits and do not ask for anything else, but when I see all the colorful fruit 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 that 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 a 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 crème.
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Appetizers / Snacks
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Day 9 - Baked Mozzarella Sticks
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Entrees
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Day 19 - Spinach and Ricotta cheese Lasagna Roll-ups
Day 20 - Easy One pot Vegetable Biriyani
Day 21 - Paneer Bhurji / Pav Bhurji
Desserts
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 them 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.
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Recipe
Bionico - Mexian Fruit Salad
Ingredients
- 1 Banana
- 1 Apple
- 15 Grapes
- 5 to 6 Strawberry
- ½ can Condensed milk
- 1 cup Greek yogurt can be substituted with sour cream (I used vanilla flavor)
- 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
- 2 tbsp Honey
- 1 teaspoon Granola for topping
- 1 teaspoon Shredded coconut for topping
Instructions
- 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.
Is it condensed milk or sweetened condensed milk? I am a ious to give it a try.
Thank you!
Vicki
It is sweetened condensed milk.
Awesome clicks Sandhya, very nice!
Mexican style fruit salad looks so colorful and exotic.
What a delicious twist on a traditional fruit salad. I am loving all the colours going on in the glass.
Thanks Dannii! The colors were beautiful and loved the texture 🙂
This looks so good! I love fruit salads.
Thanks Jemma!
Mmm now that is my kind of breakfast! We're big fans of fresh fruit in our house too.
What a super healthy and delicious snack or breakfast! Perfect for all ages, too!
My boys loved it! Thanks.
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!
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.
Looks delicious love to try it .
Thanks Swathi! Do try it.
Wow this looks and sounds amazingly delicious.
Thanks Archana!