The Finest Summer season Fruit Salad

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 Finest Summer season Fruit Salad” as a result of, effectively, it truly is. Every time we convey this to a celebration or a potluck, it’s all the time the very first thing gone. Individuals can’t resist the successful mixture of pineapple, kiwi, and strawberry.

Get pleasure from extra freshness of the summer season season with our Summer Peach Salad.

Why Our Recipe

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

Did anybody else develop up pondering that fruit salad simply meant a bunch of various sorts of fruit blended collectively in a bowl? There was by no means any form of dressing and all the time manner an excessive amount of cantaloupe! Cantaloupe in a fruit salad simply makes every thing else style like cantaloupe. No thanks. That is the proper 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 prime a mild 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 dimension, 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 may 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: in case you can’t deal with the sugar, you may 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 seems like ants to you, I’ll allow you to go away them off. However I really like a very good 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 typical 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 could be on the sweeter facet, or whether it is on the extra acidic facet. Including sugar or honey to a extra acidic pineapple and batch of strawberries will assist steadiness the flavour.

How do I lower a pineapple?

Aren’t certain the best way to lower a pineapple? I don’t blame you. These pokey fruits generally is a beast. Pineapple cutters look like an important concept, however pineapples are available all types of sizes and their cores are of various thickness so it doesn’t all the time work in follow.

Lay the pineapple on its facet on a big slicing board. Lower about 1/2 inch off the highest and backside (eradicating the big inexperienced stalk on prime).

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

The core of the pineapple is often exhausting and inedible. Really feel round one finish of the pineapple to see the place that hardness begins. I often use a boring butter knife to make slightly indentation to stipulate the core. In case you are cubing your pineapple merely lower massive chunks off, leaving the exhausting core behind, then slice and cube into cubes. In case you are creating rings, you’ll lower 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 get pleasure from this as leftovers for as much as three days. Ensure you will not be utilizing overripe fruit on the time of creating, as the desire decide simply how lengthy it will final.