Guest Author - Amelia Johnson
Here is a collection of summer fruit salad recipes. Pick a salad and it should be a delicious addition to any summer dinner!
Summer Fruit Salad
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup frozen limeade concentrate, thawed
2 tablespoon poppy seed
2 cups fresh pineapple chunks
1 cup halved grapes, green or red
2 cups halved strawberries
1 cup fresh blueberries
1 cup fresh raspberries
2 cups fresh honeydew melon or cantelope, cubed
1/2 seedless watermelon, sliced into 3- to 4-inch wedges, about 1/2 inch thick
1. In a large bowl, mix honey, limeade concentrate and poppy seed.
2. Toss all fruit, except watermelon with the honey mixture.
3. Place watermelon wedges, with points facing out around the edge of a large round platter, stacking them into 3 or 4 layers. You should be able to make 8 stacks of wedges into a watermelon star.
4. Place the mixed fruit salad in the center and garnish with sprigs of mint.
5-cup Fruit Salad
1 (22 ounce) can mandarin oranges, draind
1 (27 ounce) can pineapple chunks, draind
1 cup pineapple, juice of
3 cups miniature marshmallows
4 cups sour cream
7 ounces flaked coconut
grapes or cherry
Directions
1Combine all ingredients except garnish, and chill several hours or overnight.
2.Serve on lettuce cups garnished with grapes or cherries.
Banana Cream Tropical Fruit Salad
1 mango
1 papaya
1 can pineapple, drained
2 oranges, juice of
2 small bananas
1 (7 ounce) container fromage frais with added cream
4 teaspoons dark muscovado sugar
Directions
1.Cut a thick slice off each side of the mango to reveal the large, flat stone.
2.Cut the flesh away from the stone, peel the fruit, then cut into slices.
3.Halve the papaya, scoop out the black seeds, peel away the skin then slice the fruit.
4.Cut the top and skin away from the pineapple.
5.Cut it into quarters then core and slice it.
6.Mix the fruits with the juice of the oranges, then chill until ready to serve.
7.Mash the bananas and stir them into the fromage frais.
8.spoon the fruits into bowls and top with the fromage frais and a sprinkling of the muscavado sugar.
