Easy Homemade Fruit Salad
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This Easy Homemade Fruit Salad is so refreshing and sweet. Made with fresh and juicy fruit like strawberries, blueberries, kiwis, and pineapple. Tossed with a sweet and zesty Honey-Lemon Hemp Dressing. This salad is great to bring to all the summer cookouts.
Easy Homemade Fruit Salad
This Easy Homemade Fruit Salad is the perfect sweet and refreshing salad to enjoy all summer long. It’s a must to make or bring to any BBQ. Fruits are in abundance during the summer time. This fruit salad is a great way to use up and indulge in all of the fruit that’s available this time of year.
The sweet and zesty Honey-Lemon dressing makes a great compliment to the sweetness of the fruit. Hemp hearts are added to this simple dressing to add some crunchiness and even protein to this delicious fruit salad.
In addition to being so refreshing and flavorful, this fruit salad is loaded with nutrients. It makes for a healthy treat to indulge in. Make it ahead and keep refrigerated until ready to be used. Make all summer long because you just won’t get enough of this delicious fruit salad!
Ingredients needed to make Easy Homemade Fruit Salad:
- Fresh Fruit– Strawberries, mangoes, kiwis, pineapple, and blueberries.
- For Dressing– Honey, lemon juice, pink sea salt, and hemp hearts.
Equipment needed to make Easy Homemade Fruit Salad:
- Large Mixing Bowl– For mixing fruit salad.
- Small Mixing Bowl– To make dressing.
- Whisk– To whisk salad dressing.
- Saran Wrap– For covering fruit salad as it chills.
- Pineapple Corer– To remove the core from the pineapple.
How to make Easy Homemade Fruit Salad:
- Step 1– Peel and dice mangoes into about 1/4 inch cubes. Peel kiwis and cut in half lengthwise. Then slice each half into thick slices. Slice strawberries into fourths and measure out 2 cups. Dice pineapple into small cubes and measure out 1 cup.
- Step 2– In a large mixing bowl start layering fruit; Place pineapple, strawberries, kiwi, mango, and blueberries all lined up next to each other around the bowl. Cover fruit with saran wrap and place salad in the fridge. Allow fruit salad to chill in the fridge for at least an hour before serving.
- Step 3– While fruit salad chills, make dressing; In a small mixing bowl whisk together honey, lemon and salt. Stir in hemp hearts and combine with dressing well. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
- Step 4– When ready to serve, remove fruit salad from the fridge and remove saran wrap. Remove dressing from fridge and drizzle over salad. Toss salad making sure fruit is well coated with dressing. Serve immediately and enjoy!
Tips and Substitutions:
- Be sure to use ripe and firm fruit– This fruit will last longer in the fridge.
- Don’t add dressing to salad until ready to serve– As fruit sits, it releases more juice. Adding the dressing ahead will increase the juice even more. Wait until ready to serve to add dressing then.
- Let fruit salad sit in a salad spinner basket– This will drain the extra juice and keep fruit crisp. Add juice back to salad when ready to serve.
- Substitute for maple syrup– You can use honey.
- Substitute for hemp hearts– Substitute with poppy seeds or chia seeds.
Variations:
- Add peaches– are a great addition to this Fruit Salad. Add as another fruit for more sweetness and flavor.
- Add sliced almonds– They are a great addition for more crunch.
- Use other fruits– Apples, mandarins, cherries, or grapes all work.
Easy Homemade Fruit Salad FAQ’s:
What to put on fruit salad to keep it from turning brown?
Putting a bit of lemon juice on fruit will prevent them from turning brown and will help your fruit salad last longer.
What is fruit salad dressing made of?
This easy homemade fruit salad recipe calls for making a honey-lemon dressing. Which is simply made with honey, lemon juice, pink sea salt and hemp hearts for an extra crunch. The lemon juice in the salad dressing will prevent your fruit from turning brown as your salad sits.
How to prevent fruit salad from getting soggy?
If you prepped your salad ahead of time, place your salad in a salad spinner. The juices from the dressing and the fruit will drain through the basket. This is a great tip to prevent your fruit salad from getting soggy.
Meal Prepping it:
Fruit salad is always a great idea for meal prepping. You can use it for breakfast, snacks or a side dish for your kids lunches. If you want it meal prep this easy homemade fruit salad, prep all your fruit and add a bit of lemon juice. Make the salad dressing and keep it in a separate container such as a mason jar. Pour the dressing to the fruit salad as you serve it to each individual portion.
Storing Easy Homemade Fruit Salad:
Place any leftover fruit salad in a salad spinner. The juices from the dressing and the fruit will drain through the basket. This will keep your salad from building up too much moisture and getting soggy. Keep your fruit salad refrigerated for up to 1-2 days.
Can this Easy Homemade Fruit Salad be frozen?
Frozen fruit changes in texture a lot after it has been thawed-out. I wouldn’t recommend freezing this easy homemade fruit salad.
Did you like Easy Homemade Fruit Salad recipe? You may also like these other summer recipes made with fresh fruit:
- Shrimp Skewers with Avocado-Mango Salsa
- Fresh Peach Salsa
- Homemade Strawberry Chia Jam
- Strawberry Poppy Seed Salad with Grilled Chicken
- Cucumber Herb Salad
- Watermelon Blueberry Salad with Feta
Easy Homemade Fruit Salad
This Fresh and Easy Fruit Salad is so refreshing and sweet. Made with fresh and juicy fruit like strawberries, blueberries, kiwis, and pineapple. Tossed with a sweet and zesty Honey-Lemon Hemp Dressing. This salad is great to bring to all the summer cookouts.
Ingredients
Fruit Salad
- 2 cups sliced strawberries
- 3 mangoes
- 4 kiwis
- 1 cup diced pineapple
- 1 cup blueberries
Honey-Lemon Dressing
- 2 tbsp honey
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
- 1/8 tsp pink salt
- 1 tbsp hemp hearts
Instructions
Peel and dice mangoes into about 1/4 inch cubes. Peel kiwis and cut in half lengthwise. Then slice each half into thick slices. Slice strawberries into fourths and measure out 2 cups. Dice pineapple into small cubes and measure out 1 cup.
In a large mixing bowl start layering fruit; Place pineapple, strawberries, kiwi, mango, and blueberries all lined up next to each other around the bowl. Cover fruit with saran wrap and place salad in the fridge. Allow fruit salad to chill in the fridge for at least an hour before serving.
While fruit salad chills, make dressing; In a small mixing bowl whisk together honey, lemon and salt. Stir in hemp hearts and combine with dressing well. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
When ready to serve, remove fruit salad from the fridge and remove saran wrap. Remove dressing from fridge and drizzle over salad. Toss salad making sure fruit is well coated with dressing. Serve immediately and enjoy!
Recipe Notes
Tips and Substitutions:
- Be sure to use ripe and firm fruit– This fruit will last longer in the fridge.
- Don’t add dressing to salad until ready to serve– As fruit sits, it releases more juice. Adding the dressing ahead will increase the juice even more. Wait until ready to serve to add dressing then.
- Let fruit salad sit in a salad spinner basket– This will drain the extra juice and keep fruit crisp. Add juice back to salad when ready to serve.
- Substitute for maple syrup– You can use honey.
- Substitute for hemp hearts– Substitute with poppy seeds or chia seeds.
*Number of total servings in estimated. Actual number of servings may vary depending on your own personal preference in portion sizes.
**Nutritional values shown are general guidelines for 1 serving using the ingredients listed above. These numbers do not reflect and may vary depending on substitutions, additions and/or different brands and/or other ingredients that may be used.
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