Fruit salad
Homemade fruit salad is a classic dessert or sweet treat when you want to keep it nice and simple without compromising on delicious flavours. Our recipe for fruit salad is one of the classics and features a delightful combination of blue grapes, banana, apple, pear, and orange tossed with creamy whipped cream and garnished with bittersweet, dark chocolate.
Ingredients
Fruit salad:
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Halved blue grapes
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100 g |
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Diced apple
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1 |
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Diced pear
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1 |
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Banana in slices
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1 |
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Orange in smaller pieces
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1 |
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Cane sugar
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1 tbsp |
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Double cream
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150 ml |
Garnish:
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Coarsely chopped dark chocolate (about 55% cocoa)
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25 g |
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Instructions
Tips
Sometimes it is nice to prepare your desserts in advance, especially if you are preparing other dishes as well. The best answer for how to keep fruit salad from turning brown and keeping it fresh is to cover the fruit's surface in sugar as we suggest in the recipe or mix the freshly cut fruit with an acidic juice like lemon juice, orange juice, pineapple juice or honey water.
Tips
While the former might be a bit too zingy and the latter a bit too sweet for an already sweet dessert, orange juice, which is a staple in many households, balances nicely between being sweet and tart and may as such add a note of freshness to your dessert which already contains fresh orange as well.
Questions about fruit salad
Though deceptively simple, there is still much to be learned from our fruit salad recipe. Continue reading below to explore our answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about the refreshing and scrumptious dessert.
What is fruit salad?
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Classic old-fashioned fruit salad
Many different varieties of this fruity fresh salad can be found across the globe. Some constitute a basic fruit salad with just fruit and cream, while others are more elaborate and feature a mix of fruits, vegetables, and nuts like a classic Waldorf salad. Some, like ambrosia salad, even have candy like mini marshmallows in them.
Our quick fruit salad is simple and delicious, easy to make, and is the perfect size for a family dinner or a few guests. It is incredibly easy to double, triple, or even quadruple the recipe if you need to make a bigger batch of this delicious dessert or fresh snack. Simply buy more beautiful, fresh grapes, bananas, apples, pears, and oranges and get cutting to experience the fresh, sweet flavours and different textures!
Fresh fruit salad with cream
Using whipped cream for fruit salad is delicious. Its creamy taste and velvety texture work exceedingly well with the fruit’s freshness and its different consistencies from the soft banana and juicy orange to the crispy pieces of pear and apple. Whipped cream brings an almost buttery sweetness to the dessert that goes perfectly with the intense dark chocolate.
Does the combination of fruit and cream appeal to you? Then we have a selection of recipes you might like to check out! We have a ginger-spiced applesauce dessert served with lemon-infused cream, a crispy berry mix pavlova with vanilla whipped cream, and a colourful blueberry meringue cake, which is also served with whipped cream.
Pep it up with dark chocolate on top
The best fruit salad features a delicious topping like chocolate to round off the experience. Pairing sweet fruits and smooth whipped cream with chopped dark chocolate is wonderful. The coarsely chopped chocolate provides a bit of crunch as well as a rich, bittersweet note that beautifully complements the dessert's fresh, yet creamy, flavour profile. The dark shards also look great atop the snow-white cream through which you get small glimpses of the colourful fruits.
Make it your own
Change up our simple fruit salad recipe to suit your taste by making your own fruit mix.
You could, for instance, opt for a sweet and tart tropical mix with ingredients like banana, pineapple, kiwi, mango, and shredded coconut, or lean into the tarter side with a fruit salad consisting of Granny Smith apple, grapefruit, green grapes, cranberries, and decorative pomegranate seeds for a crunchy texture and pops of colour.
If you would prefer a sweeter dessert, go for banana, Fuji or Gala apple, plum, blueberry, and strawberry, add a bit of vanilla powder to the cane sugar, and use milk chocolate instead of the darker variety.
