This is a delicious side fruit salad with a sweet and tangy dressing.
It is perfect for lunch with crusty rolls or as a dinner side dish.
Fruit salad also makes a great snack.
The recipe comes from an amazing cookbook called The Complete Best of Bridge Cookbooks Volume Two
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If you know the Best of Bridge series of cookbooks, you know you can count on their recipes to be absolutely fabulous each and every time.
I love that this recipe is a combination of sweet and spicy. The fruit of course is the sweet. It’s a mix of sliced avocado with oranges and grapefruit but the recipe also add savory ingredients.
With a dressing of orange juice, grapefruit juice and honey the sweet continues. But wait for it…
Red onion adds some zip. Plus add some hot pepper flakes into the dressing and this isn’t a plain fruit salad any more. You can adjust the spice if you like or leave it out altogether.
A Super Healthy Fruit Salad Recipe
This is a VERY healthy fruit and vegetable salad recipe. Each and every ingredient in it brings a wonderful array of nutrients and health benefits to your meal. It is also a good diabetes recipe. And of course it is gluten free.
The authors suggest that it is especially good with Mexican food (which I am sure it is), but I think it’s also much more versatile than that. Try it with leftover roast or grilled chicken for lunch.
Give it a try.
Fruit Salad, Arizona Style
Ingredients
- 1 avocado
- 2 tablespoons lime juice
- 1 papaya
- 2 oranges
- 1 grapefruit
- 1 red onion, small
- 1/2 pomegranate, optional
- 2 tablespoons orange juice
- 2 tablespoons lime juice
- 2 teaspoons liquid honey
- 1/4 teaspoon hot pepper flakes
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1 head romaine lettuce
Instructions
- For the fruit salad, peel and slice the avocado. Sprinkle it with 1 tablespoon of lime juice. Peel, seed and slice the papaya thinly. Sprinkle with the remaining lime juice. Peel the oranges and grapefruit. Cut the fruit into segments. Slice the red onion.
- In a large bowl, combine the avocado, papaya, orange and grapefruit segments and onion. Set aside. If you are using pomegranate, scoop out seeds and set them aside in a small bowl.
- For the dressing whisk together the orange juice, lime juice, honey, pepper flakes and oil.
- To serve, pour the dressing over the fruit and toss well. Spoon onto a lettuce-lined platter or large bowl. Sprinkle the pomegranate seeds over it all.
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This fruit salad is especially great with Mexican food.
Find another of our fruit salad recipes here. This one has more citrus flavors.
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