The ricotta cream with fresh fruit is a spoon dessert ready in no time, an excellent mousse for a light after-meal, breakfast, or snack. Grandma Benedetta makes it at home for her grandchildren as a light and fresh snack. Without sugar, it is a dessert also appreciated by diabetics or those following a healthy diet.

Which fruit to use? Naturally, the seasonal ones.

Harvest period summer fruit:

#apricots – from May to August

#watermelon – from June to September

#Italian bananas – from April to November

#barattiere – from May to August

#carosello – from May to August

#cherries – from May to early August

figs – from July to October

#strawberries – from March to September

#berries – all summer

#raspberries – from June to August

lemon – all year round, spring ones are excellent

#melon – from June to September

#blueberries – from May to August

#blackberries – from July to October

pears – from June to December

#peaches – from May to September

plums – from June to October

#currants – from June to September

Harvest period autumn – winter fruit:

oranges – from October to July

avocado – from October to June

clementines – from October to February

kiwi – from September to April

kumquat – from late November to early April

mango – from late July to November

mapo – from October to January

apples – from August to December

winter melon – from September to November

miyagawa satsuma – from September to December

pears – from June to December

grapes – from late July to November

Exotic fruits – available all year as they are imported

– pineapple

– coconut

RECIPES with mixed fruit