Making Honey Lime Fruit Salad Recipe, Its Ingredients, And Instructions

With a sweet and vibrant honey lime dressing, this is the BEST Honey Lime Fruit Salad! It is a must-have side dish that is produced with a lovely combination of delectable fruits and a straightforward dressing to go with it.

It is wonderfully refreshing. This is always popular among the crowd!

The Best Recipe for Honey Lime Fruit Salad

Honey Lime Fruit Salad was one of my favorites when I first posted it five years ago, so I thought it ought to be shared again for new readers or in case you missed it.

Additionally, I believed that this would go perfectly with waffles, crepes, or eggs benedict for brunch on Mother’s Day.

Even though I know Skittles are delicious, I believe this is the best way to sample the colors of the rainbow.

This lovely rainbow is created from a mixture of vibrant fruits that are all produced with nutritious components.

This fruit salad is a simple method to get kids to eat a lot of fruit at once and they will love it.

A Fruit Salad Dressing without Cream or Pudding

Furthermore, this fruit salad has a lot more butter than fruit salads with frozen whipped topping.

This recipe demonstrates how to create fruit salad without the typical thick, creamy fruit salad dressing.

It doesn’t drown the fruit in sugar or other strange flavors, giving the fruit enough opportunity to express its full range of flavors.

Additionally, none of those prepackaged pudding mixtures are used. Why should we cover up the fruit’s wonderful and bright aromas with a fake flavor from a pudding mix?

Let’s refrain from tainting something good, like fresh fruit, with manufactured substances that we can’t even pronounce.

A little honey and lime juice are all that’s necessary to make the fresh fruit sing. This fruit salad shines thanks to the natural honey and lime (literally and figuratively).

Components of this Simple Honey Lime Fruit Salad

• The choice of quality strawberries is essentially a no-brainer. Check out the leaves; those green tips ought to be alive and fresh-looking, and they ought to be a nice shade of red, without any black spots or mold.
• The bottom should have that delicious pineapple scent if you want to choose a good-smelling pineapple. The skin should be turning yellow and have some give when touched to indicate whether an item is ripe.
• These ripe, luscious blueberries are what I adore best about this place. They typically taste sweeter.
• Red grapes: To select quality red grapes, squeeze a few of them; they should feel firm and plump, appear tight and intact to the stems (not loose), and have a pleasing hue.
• Kiwi: To choose kiwi, choose fruits that give slightly when pressed. The firm ones are unripe and sour. The size will not matter, small or large.
• Mandarin oranges: Although I used to use canned mandarins in this recipe, I now prefer fresh. Both options are excellent. Mangoes are a good alternative to oranges.
• Bananas are not required. Use yellow bananas if you decide to add them. Not enough sweetness in the green peel, and no brown peel (too mushy).
• Unless there is an allergy, I do not advise substituting honey; in that case, you might want to consider maple syrup or brown rice syrup.
• Lime And lemons would also work in a pinch.

How Do You Prepare Fruit Salad?

• Prepare the fruit: chop fruits (except blueberries) and add to a large mixing bowl.
• Make the dressing: in a small mixing bowl, whisk together the honey, lime zest, and lime juice.
• Toss fruit with dressing: pour dressing over fruit just before serving and toss to evenly coat.
• Easy as that!

Can I Make Honey Lime Fruit Salad Recipe With Frozen Fruit?

Only fresh fruit, never frozen, should be used in this fruit salad for optimal results. Unfortunately, it won’t work the same way here since once frozen, frozen fruit becomes mushy and watery.

However, keep in mind that this recipe is flexible and you can substitute other in-season fruits for them.

Can I prepare it Beforehand?

Naturally, I still eat it the following day if there is any leftover, but it isn’t quite as tasty as it was the first time.

I suggest chopping the fruits (apart from bananas) up to a day in advance and making the dressing a day ahead of time.

Refrigerate, then allow the dressing to sit at room temperature for 20 minutes the following day. When you’re ready to serve it, combine the fruit with the dressing.

Advice for the Ideal Honey Lime Fruit Salad:

• Utilize a range of fruit. Almost any fresh fruit will work in this recipe; however, a combination will provide more flavor and eye-catching color.
• Utilize ripe fruit. In other words, because they take time to ripen, you might need to be prepared and buy the pineapple and kiwi about a week in advance.
• Hold off on adding the bananas altogether. If not served quickly after preparation, these will brown.
• Don’t use a cheese grater to zest the lime. Most likely, part of the lime peel’s white pith will remain, giving the fruit salad a bitter taste. Apply little pressure when using a zester.
• Fruit salad in a big salad bowl placed over a marble table with fresh fruit cut.

Recipes for Fruit Salad You’ll Love:

• Salad of Winter Fruits
• Fruit Salad with Creamy Cinnamon Apples
• Berry Fruit Salad Cheesecake
• Fruit Salad with Melon
• Salad of Berries and Fruit with Honey Balsamic Dressing

Ingredients

Instructions

1. In a sizable mixing bowl, place all the fruit.
2. Mix the lime juice, lime zest, and honey in a small mixing basin.
3. Serve right away** after pouring over and evenly coating the fruit.

Notes

• *1 (15 oz) can of mandarin oranges in juice or light syrup that has been thoroughly drained also work (which was what was previously listed, I just now prefer the fresh).
• **Except for the banana, fruit can be chopped one day in advance. The dressing can be prepared one day in advance and stored separately and chilled.
• Original photographs from June 2014 were updated with the recipe.