Best Fruit Salad Recipes (2024)

FAQs

How do you elevate fruit salad? ›

Here are some ideas: Citrus zest: Sprinkle some grated citrus zest, such as lemon, lime, or orange, over the fruit salad. This adds a burst of flavor without any added sweetness. Fresh herbs: Chop up some fresh herbs like mint, basil, or cilantro and mix them into the fruit salad.

Citrus fruits, like oranges or lemons, add a refreshing and tangy flavor to salads. The acidity in citrus helps balance the bitterness of greens by enhancing other taste sensations and masking some of the bitter notes.

Use citrus juice, like orange or lemon juice

“To prevent fruit salad from turning brown, you can toss the fruits in a mixture of citrus juice (like lemon or orange juice) before combining them, as the citric acid in the juice helps inhibit enzymatic browning by reducing the fruits' exposure to oxygen,” she says.

Avoid acidic fruits with sweet fruits. To have a nice balance in your fruit salad, it's best to keep acidic and sub-acidic fruits separate. What are the ingredients in fruit salad? You can entirely make fruit salad your own, or use what is in season.

Beat cream cheese and sugar together in a large bowl with an electric mixer. Mix in whipped topping on high speed until incorporated. Fold in pineapple, fruit co*cktail, bananas, apple, coconut, pecans, raisins, and cherries. Transfer to a serving bowl, cover, and chill for at least 1 hour before serving.

Sprinkle a little lemon juice and sugar over the sliced fruit and toss to coat. Let stand for 10 minutes or so for the juices to start coming out and the flavour to start developing. This is also called macerating.

Fresh Mint: A few sprigs of fresh mint add brightness and flavor to this fruit salad! Flaky Salt: This is optional, but highly recommended! A pinch of sea salt perfectly compliments the sweetness of the fruit and brings this dish together.

Adding salt to a fruit salad is not a common practice, as fruit salads are typically enjoyed for their natural sweetness and refreshing flavors. However, adding a small pinch of salt can sometimes enhance the taste of the fruits by subtly balancing the sweetness and bringing out the natural flavors.

If your fruit is properly ripe, dress no more than 30 minutes before so it doesn't mush; if it's still firm, you can dress up to three hours before. If it's about to fall apart because it's really that ripe, dress it like you would a soft lettuce—only at serving time.

Why do you put lemon in fruit salad? ›

To prevent the effects of oxidation, fruit needs citric acid, and lemons are full of it. As a natural antioxidant, lemon juice can help prolong the life of fruit salad (as well as its visual appeal) by inactivating the enzyme polyphenol oxidase, which is responsible for the browning.

Most fruits will last about five days after being sliced (some vegetables a few days longer) as long as you follow a few rules: store them in an airtight container and always refrigerate cut produce. Fruits like apples, pears, bananas and avocados are not the best candidates for slicing ahead of time since they brown ...

Do you remember the old saying "one bad apple spoils the bunch?" It turns out it's true that apples help other fruits ripen more quickly and this is the reason they shouldn't be stored together. Kiwis, mangoes, bananas and other ethylene-producing fruit can result in early spoilage and lead to food waste.

Tomatoes and bananas

This pair is actually on the list of what fruit and veggies not to store together. Fruits and vegetables that do a lot of ripening after they're picked, such as tomatoes, bananas, kiwis and honeydew melons, are best stored apart.

A good rule of thumb is to keep high-ethylene gas-emitting fruits apart from other produce. Apples, avocados, stone fruits, pears, bananas and tomatoes are a few of the top offenders, with delicate leafy greens being some of the most susceptible to ethylene gas. Also, keep onions to themselves.

Seasonal fruits in combination. My favourites would have to be combos such as: peaches, bananas and blackberries with vanilla and lime juice dressing; kiwifruit and casaba/honeydew melon chunks/balls and raspberries; fresh pineapple and banana pieces with ginger & coconut dressing.