
How To Make Blackberry Lime Fruit Salad
Enjoy a healthy and delicious snack in this bright fruit salad. It combines berries, grapes, and kiwi, all tossed in a sweet honeyed citrus dressing.
Serves:
Ingredients
For Dressing:
- â…”cupfresh orange juice
- ½tspfresh orange zest
- â…“cupfresh lemon juice
- ½tspfresh lemon zest
- 1tbspfresh lime juice
- ½tspfresh lime zest
- ¼cupbrown sugar
- 1tspvanilla extract
- 1tsppoppyseeds
For Salad:
- 15ozmandarin oranges,(1 can) thoroughly drained
- 2cupsfresh strawberries,hulled and sliced
- 3kiwis,peeled, halved, and sliced
- 1cupgrapes,seedless
- 1cupblueberries
- 2large mangoes,peeled and diced
- 1cupblackberries
- 1cupraspberries
Instructions
Dressing:
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Bring the orange juice and zest, lemon juice and zest, lime zest and juice, and brown sugar to a boil in a saucepan over medium-high heat. Reduce the heat to medium-low, and simmer for about 5 minutes until slightly thickened.
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Remove the dressing from the heat and stir in the vanilla extract and poppyseeds. Set aside to cool completely.
Salad:
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Remove the stems from strawberries and chop into large chunks. Add to the bowl.
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Thoroughly drain the mandarin oranges, remove the stems and thinly slice the strawberries, and peel the kiwis, halve them, and then thinly slice them. Remove the grapes from the stems.
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In a large bowl, add in the prepared mandarin oranges, sliced strawberries, sliced kiwis, grapes, blueberries, mangoes, blackberries, and raspberries.
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Pour the dressing over the salad and lightly toss the ingredients together.
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Return to the fridge to allow to cool and let the flavors meld.
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Serve after the salad has been chilled, tossing once more.
Nutrition
- Calories:Â 254.99kcal
- Fat:Â 1.74g
- Saturated Fat:Â 0.24g
- Monounsaturated Fat:Â 0.35g
- Polyunsaturated Fat:Â 0.66g
- Carbohydrates:Â 62.52g
- Fiber:Â 9.24g
- Sugar:Â 49.31g
- Protein:Â 3.75g
- Sodium:Â 7.92mg
- Calcium:Â 94.26mg
- Potassium:Â 760.30mg
- Iron:Â 1.26mg
- Vitamin A: 108.98µg
- Vitamin C:Â 165.72mg
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