Fruit Salad Recipe for a Crowd

Fruit Salad Recipe for a Crowd is bursting with candy and juicy fruits and berries. This huge batch recipe is ideal for events and potlucks.

We’re knocking on the door to summer season and I for one can’t watch for heat nights spent outside with family and friends whereas fireflies showcase to a choir of cicadas (ask me how excited I’m for this yr’s uncommon cicada season — screaming!)

Along with whipping up batches of Greatest Ever Pasta Salad and Judy’s Baked Beans anytime we entertain within the hotter months, I like to have a giant contemporary fruit salad available to spherical out the meal.

A serving bowl of candy and snappy fruit salad for a crowd is refreshing, gentle, and wholesome. It’s the proper dish to have available for cookouts, events, child or bridal showers, grad events, and any get collectively in between!

Greatest Fruit Salad Recipe Components

It could seem to be you may mix all of your favourite fruits to create a fruit salad and, technically, you’d be proper! That mentioned, I occur to consider this specific mixture of tropical fruits, candy berries, and pomegranate arils achieves an excellent stability of candy, tart, crispy, and juicy. It’s truly fairly addicting! Right here’s what you’ll want:

• Pineapple: chopped, contemporary pineapple types the bottom of this fruity salad. Don’t miss my tutorial on tips on how to trim and chop a pineapple.
• Mango: do you know summer season is champagne mango (aka yellow mango) season? That is my favourite mango selection as a result of they’re exceptionally candy and juicy.
• Strawberries: present sweetness and a gorgeous pop of purple to the salad.
• Kiwi: my youngsters are kiwi-crazy and like to see it of their bowls of fruit salad. You need to use inexperienced or yellow kiwi.
• Pomegranate: I am keen on the jewel-tone pops of shade and sweet-tart style pomegranate arils convey to this fruit salad combine. You should buy simply the arils, although I’ll present you under tips on how to de-seed a pomegranate with zero mess.
• Lime + Honey: a drizzle of each creates the “dressing” for this fruity salad. Just a bit of every helps create a lightweight and luscious sauce that brings the salad collectively right into a cohesive dish.

As satisfying as this dish is throughout the hotter months utilizing contemporary summer season fruits, all of the components are available throughout the chilly months so it may be made yr spherical. A serving bowl of this simple fruit salad recipe can be a festive and welcomed addition to any Christmas or winter celebration!

The right way to Maintain Fruit Salad from Getting Soggy

We’ve all skilled a tender and soggy scoop of fruit salad earlier than. Dislike! Listed here are my suggestions for guaranteeing your summer season fruit salad is contemporary, snappy, and nonetheless dazzling at serving time.

• If making absolutely forward: It’s greatest to serve this fruit salad the identical day it’s made. I like to recommend assembling the fruit salad plus dressing up to a few hours forward of time, which supplies the components time to macerate with out turning into overly tender and soggy.
• If prepping forward: Should you’re seeking to save time on the day you’re serving the salad, peel/chop the fruit parts as much as 2 days forward of time however retailer them individually. Mix the components then costume with lime juice and honey up to a few hours forward of serving.

Apart from events and potlucks, I like having a bowl of fruit salad within the fridge as a wholesome, after-school snack for my youngsters, or to scoop as a straightforward facet dish with their dinner entrees. For these functions, the fruit salad can hand around in the fridge for as much as 3 days after assembling as a result of my youngsters don’t care if the fruit turns into just a little tender.

Do that Contemporary and Summery Appetizer

The right way to Make Fruit Salad for a Crowd

Step 1: Prep the fruits and berries.

Trim / prep / peel / chop contemporary fruits, berries, and pomegranate arils in a big mixing bowl or serving bowl. Once more, we’ve bought:

• Mango: peeled then chopped
• Strawberries: trimmed then chopped
• Pineapple: trimmed then chopped
• Kiwi: peeled then chopped
• Pomegranate arils

Another fruits to swap out or add into the combo are blueberries, blackberries, and cantaloupe. Raspberries, nectarines, or peaches would even be DIVINE — however fold these into the combo simply earlier than serving since they’re so delicate!

The right way to Seed a Pomegranate

Belief me once I let you know I’ve tried each methodology below the solar for eradicating pomegranate seeds, aka arils, from a pomegranate and that is BY FAR the perfect one (this can be a hill I’m keen to die on). There is no such thing as a mess, splatters, stains, nor whacking with a wood spoon required!

Pomegranate Step 1: Rating a sq. across the blossom finish.

Minimize deep sufficient to undergo the peel, however not deep sufficient to the place you’re slicing into the pomegranate seeds. Use the blossom to peel away the sq..

Pomegranate Step 2: Vertically rating the membrane traces.

Do you see the 6 white vertical membranes separating the 5 clusters of arils from one another? Use your knife to attain the pores and skin inline with the membranes. Once more, not too deep — simply sufficient to chop by way of the pores and skin/pith.

Pomegranate Step 3: Open the pomegranate and take away the seeds.

The vertical rating traces will help you open the pomegranate like a flower. Subsequent, use your fingertips to pop the seeds out right into a bowl of water.

Once more, there may be zero mess utilizing this methodology, as you may see!

Pomegranate Step 4: Clear the arils.

Little bits of pith would possibly stay on the arils, so I wish to swish them round in a bowl of chilly water and scoop out something that floats to the highest. Drain in a colander in between rinsing. I do that perhaps two or thrice.

Voila — pomegranate seeds made simple!

Step 2: Gown the Fruit Salad

Drizzle contemporary lime juice and honey over the components then fold to mix. It’s onerous to say how a lot of every you’ll want as a result of fruit and berries don’t include pre-determined sweetness ranges.

I begin with 1/2 lime and about 2 teaspoons of honey, let the fruit macerate for a few hours, then style and add extra of every if wanted.

• Tip: wish to hold this fruit salad vegan? Use powdered sugar or maple syrup as an alternative of honey. SO scrumptious!

Step 3: Let the Fruit Salad Macerate.

Refrigerate the fruit salad for at the least half-hour, and up to a couple hours forward of serving, in an effort to macerate — that’s, draw out the pure juices of the fruits to mix and make a cohesive salad. It really makes a HUGE distinction!

After that, its time to share! Be happy to garnish the serving bowl with contemporary mint, as I’ve proven right here. That is all the time a enjoyable contact for events. Seems to be fancy however simply takes a minute.

The right way to Retailer Fruit Salad

Retailer the fruit salad instantly within the mixing bowl or in a big serving bowl lined with a lid or saran wrap / press-n-seal previous to serving.

Leftovers may be saved for as much as 3 days, although the fruit will change into softer and saucier with every passing day.

Remodel Leftovers

Fruit salad for a crowd will serve 8-10 individuals, and when you’ve got leftovers, they repurpose fantastically!

• Smoothie: Pour the leftover fruit salad right into a blender with yogurt and/or a splash of milk then mix till easy.
• Lazy Lady Sorbet: Scoop leftovers right into a freezer-safe container or Ziplock freezer bag then freeze flat. Pour the frozen fruit right into a blender or meals processor then mix till easy. Sorbet texture — no churning required!

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Fruit Salad Recipe for a Crowd

Description

Fruit Salad Recipe for a Crowd is bursting with candy and juicy fruits and berries. This huge batch recipe is ideal for events and potlucks.

Components

• 4 cups chopped pineapple (~1 small pineapple)
• 1lb strawberries, chopped
• 4 kiwi, peeled then chopped
• 2 mangoes, peeled then chopped (Champagne mangoes beneficial)
• 1 pomegranate, seeded (~1 cup arils)
• juice of 1/2 lime
• drizzle of honey

Instructions

1. Add the fruits and berries to a big mixing or serving bowl then squeeze the lime juice on prime and drizzle with honey, 1-2 teaspoons. Fold with a spatula to mix then refrigerate for at the least 1 hour earlier than serving.
2. Style previous to serving then add extra lime juice for tartness, and/or honey for sweetness. For greatest outcomes, serve the Fruit Salad the identical day it is assembled. Retailer leftovers lined within the fridge for as much as 3 days.

Notes

• Use powdered sugar or maple syrup as an alternative of honey to make this recipe vegan.
• Have leftovers? Flip them right into a contemporary fruit smoothie, or freeze then mix to create a quick-version of sorbet.
• These photographs present mint as an non-obligatory garnish.

This recipe is courtesy of Iowa Lady Eats, http://iowagirleats.com.

Images by Ashley McLaughlin