EASY FRUIT SALADEasy Fruit Salad is one of my go-to recipes because it’s quick and easy to throw together, and a great way to get a serving of fresh fruit. I like to make this salad with pineapple, berries, kiwi, and grapes, but you can use any fruit you’d like. This salad takes a total time of 10 minutes to throw together, but I like to refrigerate it for at least two hours to let the flavors come together and get cold. WHAT IS THE BEST DRESSING FOR A FRUIT SALAD?I serve this fruit salad recipe for dessert or as a side dish for brunch because the sweet citrus-honey sauce on top always gets rave reviews.
The sauce is orange juice with lemon and honey, but you can also use pineapple juice or lime if that’s what you have. It’s light and sweet, but doesn’t overpower the salad itself.You can also top this salad with a simple syrup simmered with mint leaves and lime juice, or try mixing yogurt or sour cream with lemon juice and honey for a creamy dressing. I like to use regular yogurt instead of Greek yogurt because it’s thinner and will coat the fruit better. You can also try a creamy lemon flavor with poppy seeds.HOW LONG WILL FRUIT SALAD KEEP IN THE REFRIGERATOR?Fruit salad will last in the refrigerator for 3-4 days, when sealed tightly with plastic wrap.I don’t recommend freezing fruit salad because the fruit will be soft when defrosted and the salad won’t seem as fresh. If you have leftover fruit salad and want to freeze it, you can store it in plastic bags and use it for other recipes like smoothies or fruit syrups later. HOW DO YOU KEEP FRUIT FROM TURNING BROWN IN A FRUIT SALAD?This fruit salad recipe will stay fresh when covered and kept refrigerated, and typically won’t turn brown or oxidize.If you add other fruit like bananas or apples to the salad, they may oxidize and turn brown once they’re cut up. You can keep everything looking fresh with a splash of lemon juice mixed with those fruits before you add them to the salad. The acid from the orange juice in the sauce will help, but the lemon juice is a little extra insurance.
Sign Up Now MORE FRUITY DESSERTS.TIPS FOR MAKING FRUIT SALAD. Part of fruit salad is the flavor, and the other part is the presentation. Try to choose fruits that have contrasting colors, so the fruit in your dish doesn’t look too similar.
Chop the fruit to roughly the same size, which makes the salad visually look better. Plan your fruit according to the season, so you can get the freshest, juiciest fruit possible for this salad. Try fresh herbs like basil, lemongrass, lavender, or mint to add more interesting flavors to your fruit salad. This fruit salad dressing calls for honey, but you can also try maple syrup, brown sugar, regular sugar, or stevia. Or add flavor to this fruit salad recipe with a dash of cinnamon.
Cook your sauce for a total time of 3-4 minutes, and not longer. The longer you boil the fruit juice, the more syrup-like it will become. If you want to add banana to this fruit salad recipe, add it just before serving so it doesn’t have a chance to get mushy. Top this fruit salad with my or, or mix with (or mini marshmallows) for a sweet combination!
Jupiterimages/Photos.com/Getty ImagesAlthough the Internet has no reputable or well-established sites that discuss the formal rules of the card game, 'Fruit Salad,' an underground community of players play the fruit salad card game, sometimes referred to as 'Canadian Fruit Salad.' Although it may be a relatively new game, having spread among friends at house parties, the few online forums and blogs that mention the game come to a general consensus for the basic rules of play. You may come up with or have your own version, and can transform it into a world-renowned card game.
Set-upAt the beginning of each set, the dealer shuffles and deals out the entire deck of cards. However, each player must have an equal amount of cards. Since the jokers are not included, a 52-card deck must be partitioned equally. For example; if there are three players, each player must get 17 cards, leaving one card to be discarded.
In the case where cards must not be used, it is the dealer's responsibility to remove the lowest valued card(s). Since Ace, followed by King, Queen, Jack and so forth, is the highest, the dealer must remove the 2(s) and so on. After each set, the player to the left of the previous dealer becomes the new dealer. PlayThe player to the left of the dealer lays down any card from her hand first; the card must be face-up so everyone can see it.
Players, in a clockwise direction, lay a card face-up after the first player; their cards must be of the same suit as the card first played, unless they do not have one of that suit. Once the play goes around the table once, the player who laid the highest-value card of the original suit takes the trick. The first set continues, with a trick being taken after all players lay one card down, until all the cards are played. A total of six sets are played. PointsAt the end of each set, players who took tricks during that set must tabulate how many points they earned.
The rules for points changes with every set. After set 1, a player earns 10 points for every trick he collects. After set 2, the player earns 10 points for every heart card contained in his trick pile. After set 3, the player earns 25 points for each queen card in his trick pile. After set 4, the player with the King of Spades in his trick pile earns 100 points.
At the end of set 5, the player who won the last trick of the set earns 100 points. At the end of set 6, players who collected tricks earn points for each of the criteria from the five previous steps. Once the points are tabulated from all of the six sets, the player with the least amount of points wins.