Fruit and Vegetable Fiesta Salad

Ingredients

• 1 fresh, cored pineapple available in produce department of many markets, chopped
• or 1 can cut pineapple in natural juice, reserve 1/4 cut of the juice of either product.
• 1 large green or red bell pepper, seeded and chopped
• 1/2 red onion, chopped
• 1/2 seedless cucumber, chopped
• 2 ribs celery, chopped
• 1 vine ripe tomato, chopped
• 1 lime, juiced
• 1 teaspoon chili powder
• 1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil
• Salt and pepper
• Hot sauce (recommended: Tabasco), to your taste, optional

Directions

Combine chopped pineapple with chopped peppers, onions, cucumber, celery and tomatoes. In a bowl combine reserved pineapple juice with the lime juice and chili powder, whisk in extra-virgin olive oil and season dressing with salt and pepper, to taste. Add in a few dashes of hot saice if you like it spicy! Pour dressing over salad and toss.