The natural orange lemon syrup glazes the fruit and the keeps your salad looking and tasting fresh longer. Use leftovers for smoothies!
Author: Natasha of NatashasKitchen.com
Servings: 10-12
Ingredients
Fruit Salad Ingredients:
2lbsfresh strawberries, hulled and halved or quartered if large
1lbfresh grapes, any color, halved
6clementines, peeled well and separated into sections
1cupfresh blueberries
1 to 2apples, cored, cut into sixths and sliced into 1/4" thick pieces
1banana, sliced
Orange Lemon Syrup:
4Tbspliquid honey
Juice of 1 large lemon, about 1/4 cup
Juice of 1 medium orange, about ¼ cup
Heaping 1/2 tsp poppy seeds
Optional Garnish:
Mint leaves
Instructions
Squeeze juice of 1 lemon and 1 orange. Stir together syrup ingredients, mixing until honey is completely dissolved into the syrup.
Rinse and slice fruit in the order that it is listed. Don't slice your apples or bananas until you're ready to add the syrup since the lemon in the syrup will keep them from browning.
Drizzle syrup over the fruit and toss to evenly coat the fruit with syrup.
Notes
Other fruit options that work well in this salad: pineapple, kiwi, raspberries, blackberries