Recently I had a really tasty fruit salad from Mi Pueblo Food Market (chain
store),

It consisted of various fruits-apples, bananas (possibly plaintains because
of its denser texture), cantaloups, honeydews, a "red-fruit"?, covered in a
slightly milky sweet sauce topped with granola and raisins.

Is anyone familiar with this? Is this a traditional Mexican fruit salad?

Would someone be willing to share a recipe, especially for the "milky
cream" sauce that accompanys this.

Thanks to all.


hb3

homeboy3 wrote:
Recently I had a really tasty fruit salad from Mi Pueblo Food Market (chain
store),

It consisted of various fruits-apples, bananas (possibly plaintains because
of its denser texture), cantaloups, honeydews, a "red-fruit"?, covered in a
slightly milky sweet sauce topped with granola and raisins.

Is anyone familiar with this? Is this a traditional Mexican fruit salad?

Oh, yes. It's called "eschamocha". Isn't it wonderful? I've had it with
strawberries, kiwi fruit, watermelon, mango and papaya, as well as what
you named, and it can be topped with walnuts, sunflower seeds, and
shredded coconut.

Would someone be willing to share a recipe, especially for the "milky
cream" sauce that accompanys this.

The secret is the salt.

Half a teaspoon of salt per large dessert glass of eschamocha is what
brings out the fruit flavor and scours capsaicin from chili sauce off
your tongue, so if you're going to eat the eschamocha after a Mexican
meal, don't forget the salt.

Add milk and honey and throw some papaya slices into your blender and
blend it. Pour half the amount of sauce into the bottom of the dessert
glass, add your sliced fruit, and then pour the rest of the sauce over
the fruit so it can trickle down over the big chunks of fruit and top
the whole thing with a maraschino cherry.