Fruit salads: popular recipes. Video

One of the most popular fruits in these salads is apples. Fresh, they are available at any time of the year and combined with cinnamon, lemon juice and honey, as well as juicy orange pulp, make up an incredibly tasty dessert. You will need: – 2 large Granny Smith apples; – 2 medium oranges; – 1 tablespoon orange peel; – 2 large lemons; – 3/4 teaspoons of cinnamon; – 2 tablespoons of liquid light honey; – 3/4 cup shelled walnuts – 3 tablespoons of fine, soft golden raisins – 2-3 teaspoons of cold-pressed linseed oil.

Rinse the apples, dry, cut in half and core, then cut into cubes. You can trim the rind if you wish, but it is rich in healthy pectin and its vibrant color dramatically enhances the dish. Drizzle freshly squeezed lemon juice over the sliced ​​apples. Cut the peel from the oranges, cut the pulp and place it in the bowl with the apples. Add orange zest. Crush the nuts in a mortar, add to the salad, add soft raisins, cinnamon, freshly squeezed lemon juice, honey and flaxseed oil. Stir, refrigerate and serve in dessert bowls.

You can spice up this salad by adding a pinch of cayenne pepper, a drop of vanilla extract, and flaxseed

Fruit salads do not always consist of only fruits, sometimes they contain vegetables and not necessarily sweet ones, such as carrots, but also such as avocado, with its rich buttery taste. Take: – 1 grapefruit; – 1 sweet pear; – 1 orange; – 1 avocado; – 1 mango; – 10 strawberries; – 1/2 lemon; – 1/4 cup thick Greek yogurt; – 2 tablespoons of vanilla essence; 1/4 cup poppy seeds

Wash the fruit, cut the skin from the orange and grapefruit, cut the pulp in segments and place in a deep bowl. Cut the pear in half, remove the core and cut the flesh into slices. Remove the stems from the strawberries and cut the berries in half. Cut the mango lengthwise, remove the pit, cut the peel and remove it from the pulp, cut it in the same way as a pear. Take an avocado last and process it in the same way as a mango. Squeeze the lemon juice into a bowl of fruit and avocado, season the salad with yogurt mixed with poppy seeds and vanilla. Serve the salad chilled. The finished salad can be stored in the refrigerator for about a day, but before serving it, you will have to carefully scoop up the juice from the bottom of the bowl and mix it with the fruit.

In autumn, salads with juicy aromatic pulp of watermelons are very popular. To make such a salad with lemon dressing, you will need: – 2 tablespoons of lemon juice; – 1/2 teaspoon of sugar; – 1/4 teaspoon of salt; – 1/4 teaspoon of mustard powder; – a pinch of black pepper; – 3 tablespoons olive oil – 1/4 cup fresh purple basil greens – 1 cup fresh pineapple diced – 1 cup fresh strawberries cut in half – 1 cup diced kiwi – 1 cup pitted and chopped watermelon pulp diced; – 1 cup fresh blueberries; – 1 cup fresh raspberries.

In a blender bowl, combine lemon juice, sugar, salt, mustard powder and black pepper, while continuing to mix, pour in the vegetable oil, add the basil herbs. Place the fruit in a large, deep bowl, add the dressing and stir.

Fruit salad can also be served as a side dish with fish or meat

You can also make another fruit salad by making a mint sugar dressing for it. Take: – 1/4 cup of mint leaves; – 3 tablespoons of granulated sugar; – 700 g of cherries; – 3 ripe peaches; – 250 g of pitted black grapes.

Grind the mint and sugar in a mortar and pestle, or pulse in a blender. Remove the seeds from the cherries; this can be easily done using a special device. Cut the peaches lengthwise, remove the seeds and cut into slices. Cut the grapes in half. Combine fruit and peppermint sugar in a salad bowl, let stand for 5 minutes and serve.