The Best Summer Fruit Salad

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Let me introduce you to the fruit salad that everybody will rave about. We name it the triple fruit salad with lemon poppy seed dressing, however everybody else simply calls it “The Greatest Summer season Fruit Salad” as a result of, nicely, it truly is. Every time we convey this to a celebration or a potluck, it’s at all times the very first thing gone. Individuals can’t resist the profitable mixture of pineapple, kiwi, and strawberry.

Take pleasure in extra freshness of the summer season season with our Summer Peach Salad.

Why Our Recipe

Solely three fruits which makes preparation fairly darn simple!
Probably the most scrumptious easy dressing that lets the fruit shine.

A close up view of a wooden spoon dishing out fruit salad from a bowl.

Did anybody else develop up pondering that fruit salad simply meant a bunch of various sorts of fruit combined collectively in a bowl? There was by no means any form of dressing and at all times method an excessive amount of cantaloupe! Cantaloupe in a fruit salad simply makes every thing else style like cantaloupe. No thanks. That is the right mix of our favourite summer season fruit topped with an incredible lemon poppy seed dressing. Yum!

Ingredient Notes

An overhead view of the ingredients needed to make a summer fruit salad.

Pineapple: use recent, in fact. Check for ripeness by giving one of many leaves on high a delicate tug. If it comes out simply, your pineapple is ripe and able to eat.
Strawberries: slice or quarter them. If they’re larger, I slice them. If they’re a extra regular measurement, I quarter them. For these occasional tiny strawberries, halvsies is an efficient choice.
Kiwis: I like to chop them in half after which use a spoon to take away the flesh, or you possibly can slice the ends off and use a pairing knife to take away the peel.
Lemon: that is going to brighten up the flavors of your fruit. It’s like a secret weapon for fruit salads.
Sugar: when you can’t deal with the sugar, you possibly can substitute with an equal quantity of honey. The added sweetness is about balancing the acidity and tartness of the pineapple.
Poppy Seeds: okay, if it appears to be like like ants to you, I’ll allow you to go away them off. However I really like poppy seed dressing!

Sugar

Relying on their ripeness, fruits have numerous ranges of pure sugars. When working with acidic fruits like pineapple and strawberries, it’s a standard follow so as to add a sweetener to offer a extra balanced taste. It’s a good suggestion to style your fruit earlier than getting ready the salad to see if it might be on the sweeter aspect, or whether it is on the extra acidic aspect. Including sugar or honey to a extra acidic pineapple and batch of strawberries will assist stability the flavour.

How do I reduce a pineapple?

Aren’t certain methods to reduce a pineapple? I don’t blame you. These pokey fruits is usually a beast. Pineapple cutters appear to be an amazing concept, however pineapples are available all types of sizes and their cores are of various thickness so it doesn’t at all times work in follow.

Lay the pineapple on its aspect on a big reducing board. Minimize about 1/2 inch off the highest and backside (eradicating the big inexperienced stalk on high).

Stand the pineapple upright. Use a pointy knife to slice that unruly, pokey pores and skin off the edges in slices. Attempt to go away as a lot of the flesh intact as attainable, however take away all that nasty pores and skin.

The core of the pineapple is normally arduous and inedible. Really feel round one finish of the pineapple to see the place that hardness begins. I normally use a boring butter knife to make somewhat indentation to stipulate the core. In case you are cubing your pineapple merely reduce massive chunks off, leaving the arduous core behind, then slice and cube into cubes. In case you are creating rings, you’ll reduce slices and take away the core out of every individually.

A bowl of fruit salad with pineapple, kiwi, strawberries, and a poppyseed dressing.

Storage Directions

Refrigerate leftovers in an hermetic container within the fridge. The fruits will begin to flip, regardless of the lemon juice, however we handle to nonetheless take pleasure in this as leftovers for as much as three days. Be sure you should not utilizing overripe fruit on the time of constructing, as the desire decide simply how lengthy this can final.