This summer time fruit salad showcases recent yellow peaches, cherries, blueberries, grapes, feta cheese, and a scrumptious Lemon-Honey Dressing. It is a wholesome facet dish to share with household and buddies at summer time picnics, potlucks, and cookouts.
Summer season fruit salad
Should you’re on the lookout for the right summer time fruit salad, this recipe is simply what you want. It highlights seasonal produce like yellow peaches and recent, pitted cherries, mixed with blueberries and seedless inexperienced grapes. Crumbled feta cheese enhances the fruit fantastically. Toss every thing with my do-it-yourself Honey-Lemon Mustard dressing, and you have a flavorful and scrumptious summer time salad that not solely tastes superb but additionally makes a surprising presentation. It is certain to be successful at your subsequent household gathering. Share it with the gang at summer time events, BBQs, cookouts, and different festivities (together with the 4th of July!). My different favourite summer time fruit salads are strawberry mango spinach salad and this savory-sweet peach and blueberry spinach salad with prosciutto (or bacon).
What to serve with it?
This recipe is the right summer time facet dish, complementing any summer time meal like grilled meats, burgers, sandwiches, and BBQ dishes. Listed below are a few of my favourite summer time dinners that pair fantastically with this fruit salad. And, to make these, you don’t want to fireside up a grill or activate the oven when it is so sizzling exterior – all of those are stove-top recipes:
- Garlic Butter Hen with Zucchini and Corn (One-Pan, 30-Minute Meal)
- Sausage and Veggies Skillet (30 Minute, One-Pan Meal)
- Hen Spaghetti with Burrata Cheese, Cherry Tomatoes, and Lemon Butter Garlic Sauce
- 30-Minute Cilantro-Lime Hen and Corn
Summer season Fruit Salad with Lemon-Honey Dressing
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Components
Salad dressing
- 2 tablespoons additional virgin olive oil
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 3 tablespoon honey
- 3 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
Salad components
- 3 medium yellow peaches cored and sliced
- 6 oz blueberries
- 2 cups recent cherries cored and halved
- 2 cups inexperienced seedless grapes halved
- ⅓ cup crumbled feta cheese
Directions
Make salad dressing
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Mix olive oil, Dijon mustard, lemon juice, and honey in a mason jar. Whisk effectively with a fork for a minute or 2 till emulsified. Add extra honey or mustard, to style.
Meeting
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Mix cored and sliced peaches, blueberries, cored and halved recent cherries, and halved seedless inexperienced grapes in a big serving bowl.
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Add salad dressing and toss to mix. Prime with crumbled feta cheese.
Vitamin
Useful recipe suggestions
- Ensure to purchase seedless grapes. I want inexperienced grapes as they properly complement the colourful colours of the opposite fruits within the salad.
- Use ripe yellow peaches. Go for ripe yellow peaches to make sure they’re juicy and have the appropriate texture. Unripe peaches might be agency and lack sweetness. In case your peaches aren’t fairly ripe, go away them out at room temperature to ripen (that may take a number of days) earlier than utilizing them in a salad.
- A cherry pitter is usually a recreation changer. I discovered one on Amazon that made pitting the cherries fast and simple, saving me a lot effort and time!
Variations and Substitutions
- You’ll be able to substitute peaches with recent apricots, nectarines, mangoes, or plums.
- Cannot discover recent cherries? You should utilize dried cherries (plump them up by soaking them briefly in boiling water). Or, use different stonefruit.
- Use your favourite berries. This summer time fruit salad might be made with every other berries you’re keen on: raspberries, blackberries, or strawberries.
- Should you don’t love seedless grapes, you should utilize kiwi as an alternative.
- Do not like feta? Merely skip it!
- Salad dressing. You’ll be able to substitute honey and lemon within the salad dressing with maple syrup and freshly squeezed lime juice.
Storage suggestions
This fruit salad stays recent within the fridge for as much as 3 days, because of the lemon juice within the dressing, which helps protect the fruit.
Make-ahead suggestions
You’ll be able to put together this salad forward of time by combining all of the fruit in a big salad bowl as much as a day upfront. Make the salad dressing as much as 3 days forward. Add the feta cheese and dressing proper earlier than serving.
Extra summer time fruit salads
- Strawberry Spinach Salad with Blueberries, Feta, Pecans, and Balsamic Glaze
- Apple Spinach Salad with Honey-Mustard Lemon Dressing
- Summer season Peach Spinach Salad with Blackberries and Balsamic Glaze
- Strawberry Spinach Salad with Poppy Seed Honey-Lemon Dressing
- Apricot Salad with Spinach, Cherries, Pecans, and Feta Cheese
