When the weather outside is frightful, look to all the delightful fruits that fall and winter season offer to lighten your mood.
Why You Will Love This Salad
This delicious salad plays host to all of the best seasonal fruits. Crunchy pomegranates and crisp apples, sweet pears, tart citrus, and tropical kiwi are all tossed in a sweet-tart mix of maple and lime. Perhaps best of all, this fresh, easy and light salad takes just 10 minutes from start to finish! It also just so happens to be vegan, too. Perfect for serving alongside everything from pancakes to barbecue or Thanksgiving, this stunning side fruit salad will please the whole family. Treat yourself with this naturally sweet and terrifically healthy winter fruit salad for brunch. If it isn’t the weekend yet, pack some in a mason jar to immediately beautify your workday lunch.
Ingredients
My recipe for the perfect fall fruit salad requires just five fruits that are abundant this time of year: apples, pears, kiwi, orange and pomegranate. Feel free to choose any varieties you like best! The Maple Lime Dressing is equally simple. Mix 3 tablespoons of high quality, pure maple syrup with the zest and juice from a lime. It really couldn’t be simpler!
How to Make a Good Winter Fruit Salad
The trick to making a delicious mixed fruit salad is all about balance. The maple lime dressing is a perfect example! Sweet (and seasonal!) maple syrup is blended with bright, tart lime for a perfect winter mashup. To make the dressing, simply whisk together your lime juice, lime zest and maple syrup. Set aside. TIP: Can’t find maple? Feel free to substitute honey, agave or date syrup instead. Next, prepare all of your fruit. Peel and cube the kiwi. Remove the pomegranate arils from the fruit. Core and cube the apple and pear. Cut your oranges into supremes, then into bite sized pieces. Place all of your fruit into a large mixing bowl, then drizzle with the salad dressing and toss to combine. Enjoy!
Salad Dressing Ideas
While the Maple Lime Dressing is simply divine, you can certainly play with your ingredients. Feel free to swap in date syrup, pomegranate syrup, jaggery syrup, or agave syrup to remain vegan. If you eat honey, it also makes a lovely substitution. I happen to love eating my fruit with just a touch of vegetal freshness - adding some fresh mint, basil or Thai basil to the mix can take this winter fruit salad from nearly dessert to squarely savory. Some fresh ginger would also be very tasty!
Add-Ins
One of the things I love best about cooking is adapting things as I go. This yummy winter salad ( just like my fresh fruit salad) is perfectly simple, but you can feel free to dress it up with any add-ins of your choice. Some of my favorites include:
Nuts - pecans, walnuts, pistachios or cashewsSeeds - flax, hemp, chia, pepitas or sesame seedsCheese - goat cheese or fetaCreaminess - cream, coconut cream, yogurt, avocado or nut butters could also be added to the dressing.Herbs - basil or Thai basilVegetable or fruit - shaved fennel root, pear, bananas.Spice - little bit of cayenne, sriracha or gochujang can all be added to the dressing for a touch of heatMarshmallows
If you can think of anything else to put in this fruit salad, please add it in the comments below! I love hearing about all of your ideas. 🙂
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