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When summer hands you a plethora of fresh fruits and vegetables, you get busy with a knife.
Beautiful summer Flavorosa Plumcots from Melissa’s Produce were the inspiration for this salsa. Flavorosas – 75% plum and 25% apricot – have a dark skin and dark red flesh, with flavor hints of plum, cherry, pomegranate and honey. It’s a super sweet plum with low acidity, available now and gone soon. Get them while you can! And if you can’t find them, feel free to use any plum that you fancy. You can also sub pluots or apriums — complex hybrids of plum and apricot.
This chunky, rustic looking fruit and vegetable salsa is great over grilled fish, steak, chicken, or even on hot pasta.
Let your imagination soar as you think of ways to use it! (I have 5 other suggestions right below the recipe if you need a little help.)
Summary: Sweet plums in season highlight this chunky, rustic chopped salsa, which works well with simple grilled fish, steak or chicken. Dorothy Reinhold | ShockinglyDelicious.com Preparation time: 15 minutes This recipe originally was published in July 2014, and republished today. Disclosure: Melissa’s Produce sent the plums for recipe testing.
Recipe: Chunky Plum Salsa Cruda
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Other ways to use plums and plumcots
Diet type: Vegan
Diet tags: Gluten free
Number of servings (yield): 6
Culinary tradition: USA (Nouveau)
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This looks so good. The picture of the plum alone was enough to make my mouth water.
This recipe looks so tasty. I wanna try this.
I love fruit! And I love trying new recipes!
WOW! This looks and sounds amazing! I need to make this before summer is over!
Love all the freshness going on in that bowl. I was introduced to the plumcot last year and I fell in love with them.
I would never have thought to use plums like this! I love how colorful it is!
This sounds so good, and I love how versatile it is! Love the colors too!
Loving this fruit salsa! All I need is chips and devour the whole bowl!
This is a perfect way to use up the summer’s sweet stone fruits and I would use it in so many different ways!!
the salty sweet combo sounds do good!
Nicole,
Exactly right…that sweet fruit, those salty olives. It’s a yumfest. 🙂
This is such a great idea! I love the colors, and the salty olives added to these sweet plums! Nice!
I absolutely love the mix of flavors you used. I’d probably want to eat this straight from the bowl!
Dee,
And it’s GOOD that way!
What a great addition to tonights grilled chicken!
I just ADORE the colors of this salsa cruda! And what awesome flavors you’ve got going on in it, too. Seriously, I could eat an entire bowl!
Erin,
I might have. Not telling. 🙂
I want to make this over and over again just for the plums! Such a pretty dish too!
Love, love, LOVE summer salsas with stone fruit…especially with fresh grilled chicken or fish off the grill : )
Jeanne,
Oh yeah, fish right off the grill with this on top. Eyes closed. YUM!
I thought they were called pluots! Happy that it’s stone fruit season again and a chunky salsa crudo has no limitations :))
Gorgeous plums! Thanks for including me. Now, pass the tortilla chips, please. 😉
I know I would love this… So versatile too, you could mix this into cous cous, pasta, serve over spinach or arugula… mmmmmm
Louise, I would ROCK over spinach!