Italian Fruit Salad Recipe
This Italian fruit salad is a perfect light fruit dessert for any time of the year. Try it, you are going to love it!
Ingredients
- 1 lb strawberries trimmed and quartered.
- 11 oz blueberries
- 6 oz raspberries
- 2 bananas peeled and diced into cubes
- 2 tbsp. fresh lemon juice
- 2 tbsp. cane sugar or to taste
- Optional: I used whipped cream as a garnish
Instructions
- Prepare the fruits. Wash and pat the fruits dry. Cut them into small bit size pieces. Place them into a large bowl.
- Coat the fruits with sugar. Sprinkle the sugar over the fruits and toss or mix the fruits gently.
- Add the fresh lemon juice. Add the lemon juice to the fruits and mix the fruits gently. Lemon juice starts to melt the sugar. and then both work to extract fruit juice.
- Taste and adjust. At this point, taste the salad, if you desire more sweetness, add sugar to the salad. If the salad is already too sweet for your taste, you may add more lemon juice to balance out the sweet and sour flavor.
- Wrap and refrigerated it. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let the salad rest and chill in the fridge for a minimum of 30 minutes or till the juices are out and flavorful.
- Serve it. You simply serve the salad in individual serving bowls and serve it as delicious as it is. On special occasions, you may top the fruit salad with either whipped cream or ice cream. Enjoy!
Notes
Tips
- Taste and adjust. The best way to create a perfect sweet-sour flavor is to taste-test it. if too sweet, add lemon juice. if too sour, add sugar to it.
- Peel the fruits. If you are making other versions of this fruit salad, make sure to peel the tough skin of some fruits. This way fruit juice will be released better to create a delicious sauce.
- Toss or mix gently. The goal is to incorporate lemon juice and sugar with fruits and not to make the fruit pieces mushy.
- Take your daily fruits. We make this classic Italian dessert almost every day. Prepare the fruit salad while preparing the dinner. Then, it would be ready by the end of the dinner.
- Use seasonal fruits. Use any fruits available in each season or use your favorite ones. The variations to this recipe are endless. Fruits examples are as follows: Apples, berries, bananas, oranges, pears, kiwi, grapes, peaches, plums, cantaloupe, mandarine, watermelon, pineapples, cherries, pomegranate, nectarine, etc.
- Make tropical fruit salad. Use banana, mango, papaya, pineapple, dragon fruits, passion fruit, acai, jackfruit, starfruit, or guava.
- Skip the sugar. If the fruits you use in the salad are already sweet enough, you may skip the sugar. Or adjust the amount and type of sugar to your preference.
- Blend the fruit salad. You can simply blend the fruit salad into a smoothie or add ice to it and make a slushie. You may even turn it into popsicles.
- Add lemon zest. Just a pinch of lemon zest will add lots of fragrance to the salad.
- Make lemon sorbet. You may also mix the sugar, lemon juice, and some lemon zest. Then add them all to the fruits.
- Make honey lime dressing. Simply substitute sugar and lemon with honey and lime in the recipe.
- Make the fruit salad ahead. You can make this fruit salad a day before. The longer the diced fruits sit in the dressing, the more fruit juices will be released.
- Use other garnish. Nuts, seeds, or herbs (mint, dill, thyme, basil) are great options.
- Make creamy fruit salad. Mix in some Greek yogurt, cottage cheese, or sour cream when serving.
Nutrition
Serving: 1gCalories: 181kcalCarbohydrates: 45gProtein: 3gFat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 3mgFiber: 8gSugar: 29g
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