Description
This Red White and Blue Fruit Salad is the perfect summer dessert for patriotic holidays or summer picnics. Packed with fresh fruit and a peppermint lime dressing, it’s cool, refreshing, light and so easy to put together for Memorial Day or the Fourth of July celebrations.
Ingredients
Scale
- 6–8 peppermint leaves
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1/2 cup lime or lemon juice
- 1 medium-sized seedless watermelon (about 8 cups)
- 1 quart strawberries
- 1 pint blueberries
- 1 large apple
Instructions
- Mince peppermint leaves, and place in a jar with sugar and lime juice
- Screw lid onto jar tightly, and shake to dissolve sugar. Set aside
- In a large bowl, combine fruit except for apple
- For the stars, slice the apple into ¼ thick slices, and cut star shapes with a small cookie cutter. Dip the apples in the lime dressing mixture, or straight lime or lemon juice to keep them from turning brown
- Drizzle fruit salad with the lime dressing, and toss
- Place apple stars on top (You can also toss the stars with the rest of the salad if you prefer)
Notes
- I do not recommend assembling this fruit salad recipe ahead of time, but you can prep your fruit salad dressing and cut up your fruits beforehand. Then you just toss them together at the last minute to serve!
- Use a melon baller to scoop out pieces of watermelon, then use the empty watermelon rind as a “watermelon bowl” for serving the dessert salad! It’s fun, festive, and one less dish to wash when you’re done.
- Choose a ripe, juicy watermelon – since watermelon is the primary fruit in this recipe, you want to make sure you are choosing a ripe, sweet melon.
- Use a blender (I love my Blendtec) to make the dressing instead of mincing the mint and shaking it up! This is so much faster and works perfectly.
- Prep Time: 30
- Category: Dessert
- Cuisine: American
