Easy Fruit Salsa and Crispy Sweet Tortilla Chips

Try this easy fruit salsa, perfect for dipping with crispy sweet tortilla chips coated with cinnamon sugar. It’s always a hit whenever I serve it to my guests – young or old. I love making this when summer fruit is at its peak and the berries and stone fruit are plentiful. I serve it as an appetizer, snack, or fun tasty dessert.

Also see: Saskatoon Fruit Salsa, Savory Fruit Salsa for Fish Tacos, Savoury Pita Crisps

Fruit Salad vs Fruit Salsa – What’s the Difference?

Both fruit salsa and fruit salad are refreshing and delicious ways to enjoy the bounty of summer fruits. I LOVE and make both, but in my humble opinion, there is a difference that comes down to this…

• Fruit Size : Fruit salad typically features larger chunks of fruit, ideal for spooning and savouring individual flavours. Fruit salsa involves cutting fruit into smaller, almost tiny pieces for easy scooping with tortilla chips.
• Flavour and Texture: Fruit salsa is a saucy little number – both in texture and flavour. Fruit salsa is a little juicier, more blended with a little more oomph than a fruit salad thanks to added herbs, spices and sauces. That oomph can go sweet or savoury like on my Fish Tacos or it can go sweet like in this fruit salsa. This version uses jam, cinnamon and sugar to add extra flavour to go with the tortilla chips.
• Serving Style: Fruit salad shines as a standalone dessert or refreshing side dish. Fruit salsa takes center stage as a dip, enjoyed alongside tortilla chips. Although nothing says you can’t just shovel it in with a spoon!

It’s really just semantics – call it what you will and enjoy!

Variations for Fruit Salsa:

My all time favourite combo is strawberries, blueberries and peaches – but you can absolutely mix and match. Heck you can even use frozen fruit!

• Fruit Substitutions: Feel free to swap the berries or stone fruit for other seasonal favourites like raspberries, mangoes, plums, or cherries. Also try kiwi, pineapple, apples or saskatoons – just keep the pieces small for scoopability.
• Frozen Fruit: Frozen fruit works well in a pinch! Use a combination of fresh and frozen for the best texture and flavour.
• Herbs: Want to go next level? Add some fresh herbs like basil, lemon verbena, fruit mint (apple, strawberry, pineapple), lemon thyme – something that’s not too overpowering but adds a little interest.

Storing Fruit Salsa and Using Leftovers

This is rarely an issue, but here are some helpful tips and ideas:

• Storage: Leftover salsa will keep in the refrigerator for 2-3 days in an airtight container. Leftover chips can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 2 days.
• Store extra chips for 2-3 days in an airtight container. To refresh crispiness return to oven at 350°F (175°C) for 3-5 minutes.

Using Leftover Fruit Salsa

• Top yogurt, ice cream or pancakes
• Blend into smoothies.
• Freeze for future smoothies or fruit sauces.
• Make a fruit sauce that you can use on breakfast foods, ice cream, yogurt, etc.
• Puree the leftovers and make fruit leather.
• Make chia seed jam or if you have more fruit to add try other jams.

Sweet Tortilla Chips

Oohwee! These are a must have to go with this fruit salsa. Easy to make and oh so delicious. Here are a fewer tips I’ve adopted over the years.

• Use whatever tortillas you have on hand. Often I have 10″ whole wheat tortilla wraps.
• It is easier to baste with butter and sprinkle on the cinnamon sugar BEFORE you cut the triangles.
• Use a pizza cutter.
• You can stack several tortillas on top of each other – put the buttered sides together.
• To get nice sized triangle pieces from large tortillas, I cut a 2 inch strip from the center. Then I cut triangles out of everything (see photo).
• Lay some of the cut pieces over the sides of the baking sheet so they bake with a curve and aren’t all flat. That curve will bake in and makes great scoops!

Recipe for Fruit Salsa & Sweet Tortilla Chips

Will you give this a try? When you do, please leave a review and rating or share a photo on Instagram with me @getgettys, I’d love to see your version and know what you think.