Dragon Fruit Salad

So as many of my previous know, there's a Filipino superstition that I follow for New Years. Traditionally you're supposed to create a fruit basket that contains 12 different round fruits. I don't know how this tradition turned into 13 different fruits, but that's how we do it in my family. As you can imagine finding 12 different round fruits is really difficult so we kind of just stick with 13 different fruits in general. For the New Year my mom and I went to the Asian market to get our fruit. We were struggling with the 13th fruit when we saw this beauty:

My mom automatically asked, " Why is it called dragon fruit? Is it because it comes from a real dragon?"

Me: "Really ma? Really? That's something I expect Tatay to ask, not you."

Mom: Well it would have explained why it's so expensive!  

Expensive indeed. But we were intrigued. I wasn't sure what to make of the fruit. When I cut it in half and tried a piece it didn't really have a lot of flavor. It had a similar consistency to a kiwi but it didn't have a very distinct flavor. I decided to whip up a quick fruit salad with it.

Ingredients:

2 tbsps of buko- coconut strips in syrup

1 dragon fruit

1 tsp agave
juice from 1 orange
2 basil leaves roughly chopped


After mixing the ingredients together refrigerate for at least 30 minutes before serving. This got a little addictive. It's a good thing I only had 1 dragon fruit : )