If you’re just totally over the winter fruit scene, this recipe will lift your spirits and have you soaring straight through to summer.
This fruit salad features all the same seasonal fruits you’ve begrudgingly placed into your basket these past couple months — apples, oranges, pears, grapefruit — but the dressing injects new life into them. Honey, ginger, fresh lime juice and the irresistible crunch of poppyseed make these cold weather fruits sing such a sweet song that you’ll forget you were even waiting for summer.
Enjoy this fruit salad on a pillow of Greek yogurt or cashew yogurt for a zingy breakfast, or serve it as a simple dessert that will convert any nonbelievers to the joys of cold weather fruit leveled up with a flavor-packed, refreshing dressing.
It is worthwhile to properly section the grapefruit to avoid pithy membranes, but less important for the other citrus, if you want to save time and effort.
Serves 2 to 4
2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
2 tablespoons honey
2 teaspoons fresh grated ginger
2 teaspoons poppyseeds
Greek yogurt, optional
1 blood orange, sectioned
1 grapefruit, sectioned
1 orange (or 2 mandarins), sectioned
1 banana, sliced
1 pear, sliced thinly
1 apple, sliced thinly
Combine the lime juice, honey, ginger and poppyseeds in a small jar and shake until the honey is completely incorporated.
Spread the yogurt, if using, across the bottom of a serving bowl. Arrange the fruit over the yogurt and top with half the dressing. Serve the remaining dressing on the side or save it for another day.
Registered dietitian and food writer Laura McLively is the author of “The Berkeley Bowl Cookbook.” Follow her at @myberkeleybowl and www.lauramclively.com.
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