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Choose ripe fruit. Dragon fruit must have bright red or pink rind. Similar to kiwifruit or peaches, dragon fruit only tastes well when it's ripe.

Click on the dragon fruit. If the meat subsides slightly, the dragon fruit is ripe. If pressed on soft, it is overcooked and no longer delicious. If you press it hard, wait a few more days before eating.
Avoid choosing fruit with dark streaks or bruises, on peels with dry brown spots or dry leaves.

Cut the dragon fruit in half. Use a sharp knife to cut the dragon fruit in half. You should see a white flesh that looks similar to a kiwifruit with black seeds evenly dispersed inside the meat.

Use a spoon to remove the meat. Place the spoon along the edge of the shell and underneath the meat to separate the shell. If the dragon fruit is ripe, it will be easy to separate the skin.

Eat dragon fruit. Use a scoop of dragon fruit to eat, cut dragon into a quarter like apple cut or process by one of the following recipes. You can cut the dragon into 5 pieces and create a nice shape.

Dragon fruit tastes good when it's cold, so put it in the refrigerator.
Remember not to eat dragon fruit peel. The shell is inedible and causes stomach pain after eating.

Method 2 of 4: Making dragon fruit kebab

Soak a few wooden skewers. You will need 1 skewer for each kebab. Soak as many skewers as you need in water for about 10 minutes. This prevents the wooden skewer from burning when roasting.
- If you like, you can use a metal skewer. With this you do not need to soak in water.
Grill group. The fruit kebab needs to be roasted over medium and even heat. Using an electric grill or a charcoal grill is fine.
- Using the grill on a gas stove is also very effective when making kebabs.
- Without a grill, the kebab can be baked on a grill in the oven. Preheat oven to high heat while preparing to make kebab.
Prepare the fruit. Dragon fruit can be combined with many tropical fruits. For this kebab try a combination of mango and pineapple.
- Cut ripe dragon fruit in half. Remove the skin and cut the meat into bite size.
- Cut the ripe mango in half. Peel and cut meat into bite size.
- Cut the pineapple in half. Cut off the skin and cut the meat into chunks to taste.
Stick the fruit on skewers. Rotate the fruits over so that each skewer has the same amount of fruit. Leave one end of the skewer for easy grip.
Arrange kebab skewers on the grill. Bake until fruit is light brown on one side, then rotate and grill the other side.
- If you are using an oven grill, place the fruit on a baking tray and place it in the oven. Bake for about 2 minutes, then take out the baking tray, turn the bottom side up and place in the oven for 2 minutes.
Remove the skewers from the grill. Place grilled skewers on a plate and enjoy immediately after adding sugar. advertisement

Method 3 of 4: Make a dragon fruit smoothie

Prepare the fruit. Dragon fruit can be combined with bananas, berries and any fruit you want to make a smoothie.
- Cut the dragon fruit in half. Use a spoon to separate the meat from the skin and chop it.
- Peel off a banana. Cut into small pieces.
- Wash about 400g of blueberries.
Choose the liquid part. Dragon fruit pulp is usually very delicious when combined with a fatty liquid. You can choose from one of the following:
- Whole or your favorite Greek yogurt or yogurt.
- Milk - full cream, low fat or skim depending on preference.
- Whole soy milk or your favorite flavor.
- Nut milk, such as almond milk or cashew milk.
Add some other ingredients. If you like sweet and flavorful smoothies, add some of the following ingredients:
- Apple juice or grape juice
- A few tablespoons of sugar, syrup or honey.
- Peanut butter or almond butter.
Put the ingredients in the blender. Put all the dragon fruits, bananas and blueberries in the blender. Add the liquid of your choice and a few teaspoons of your favorite sweetener or nut butter.
Grind all the ingredients. Run the blender to smooth the ingredients.
- If the smoothie is too thick, add a little milk, juice or water to dilute it.
- If you want a thicker smoothie, add some instant oats.
Put the smoothie in a cup and enjoy. Use a straw to drink a smoothie or if you have a thick smoothie, a spoon to eat. advertisement

Method 4 of 4: Make dragon fruit sorbet ice cream

Prepare 2 dragon fruits. Cut the dragon fruit in half and separate the flesh from the shell from the sides. Then, cut the dragon fruit into small blocks.
- The peel of the dragon fruit can be used as a plate when eating sorbet ice cream. Freeze the crust if you want to use it with ice cream.
Grind dragon fruit together with other ingredients used to make sorbet ice cream. Put the dragon fruit in a blender with ¾ cup of water, 2 tablespoons of sugar and 1 tablespoon of lemon juice. Finely grind all the ingredients.
Pour mixture into ice cream mold. Follow the manufacturer's instructions for freezing the sorbet cream.
- If you don't have an ice cream mold, you can still make sorbet with the following instructions:
  - Pour the sorbet mixture into the baking tray. Cover with plastic wrap and place in the freezer.
  - After 2 hours, part of the mixture has frozen. Stir the mixture with a spoon, then cover and continue to freezer.
  - Continue to stir sorbet cream every 2 hours, continuously for 8 hours.
  - After 8 hours, allow the mixture to freeze overnight.
Scoop sorbet cream into dragon fruit peel. Enjoy with soft sponge cake (Angel food cake), hard cake (pound cake) or a kind of cake. advertisement

Advice

Remember to wash the skin of the dragon fruit. Because when slicing dragon fruit with its skin, it can cause bacteria to stick to the meat, which is not good for health.