I was at Jimmy’s Food Store, an Italian market in downtown Dallas, picking up some pancetta for another recipe and noticed a peculiar, yet beautiful pink fruit. It is called Dragon Fruit and sold that day for $3.99.
I bought one unsure what I would or could do with it. It was definitely an impulse, novelty buy and something I’m sure my 5 year old twin boys would find interesting especially with dragon in its name.
After a couple days of letting it ripen, it basically behaves like a mango so you feel the firmness of the fruit to determine when it’s ready. I decided to finally put it to use with my VitaMix (sorry BlendTec for borrowing your Will it Blend nomenclature while using your competitor.)
How’s it look? It looks like someone threw Docker’s khaki pants with poppy seeds into a blender. More importantly how does it taste? It’s better than it looks. The flavor is good, nothing great. Dragon Fruit doesn’t really have that much flavor. It almost tastes like jicima, sweet but muted.
If you want to experiment with something new in your smoothie, Dragon Fruit might be what you are looking for. Just don’t expect to be blown away.
Dragon Fruit Smoothie
1 orange, peeled and halved
1 dragon fruit, peeled and halved
1 banana
1/2 apple
1 cup ice
Add items in order and turn on VitaMix at speed 1 and rapidly turn to 10 then switch to high speed power and blend for 45 seconds.
Serve.
