Fruit salad with an orange and honey dressing that keeps it from browning
A dessert everyone thinks they can make and rarely makes well: fruit in even dice, in a dressing of orange juice, lemon and honey that stops the apples and bananas from browning and ties everything together. Swap the seasonal fruit freely; there is one rule: even dice and acid in the dressing.
Your own work in that: 20 min.
- Cutting 15 min
- Dressing 5 min
- Chilling 30 min
Step by step
0 / 5 doneSegment the oranges
Peel two oranges with a knife, pith and all, and cut the segments out from between the membranes over a bowl to catch the juice. Squeeze the leftover membranes and the third orange for the dressing.
Ingredients: 2 pcs apples · 2 pcs pears · 3 pcs oranges · 2 pcs bananas · 200 g grapes · 200 g strawberries or other seasonal fruit
TipMembrane-free segments are the difference between a restaurant fruit salad and a homemade one. It takes 3 minutes per orange.
Segments without membranes, juice into the bowlCut the rest into even dice
Peel the apples and pears (or not, if the skin is thin) and cut into 1.5 cm dice, dropping them straight into the bowl with the orange segments and their juice. Slice the bananas, halve the grapes, quarter the strawberries. Even dice: every bite is a mix, not one fruit.
A centimetre and a half, all the sameMake the dressing
Stir the squeezed orange juice with the lemon juice and honey until the honey dissolves. The citrus acid slows the browning of apples, pears and bananas; the honey rounds the flavour and adds gloss. For children under one year old, replace the honey with maple syrup or sugar.
Ingredients: 1 pcs lemon, juice · 2 tbsp honey
Orange, lemon, honeyFold gently
Combine all the fruit with the dressing, folding with a spoon from the bottom up so the bananas and strawberries don't crush.
Bottom to top, no crushingChill and serve
Refrigerate 30 minutes: the fruit releases a little juice that blends with the dressing, and the flavours come together. Serve in glasses with a spoon of yogurt. Eat the same day; bananas don't like waiting until tomorrow.
Ingredients: 200 g natural or Greek yogurt
In glasses, with yogurt
Before you start
Winter
Apples, pears, oranges, bananas, kiwi and a handful of pomegranate seeds: what January has, in the same dressing.
Summer
Strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, peaches and diced watermelon; a lime dressing instead of lemon and a few mint leaves.
For grown-ups
A spoon of orange liqueur or white rum in the dressing and an extra hour in the fridge.
