Easy Summer Fruit Salad is loaded with ripe seasonal fruits and finished with a bright honey-lime dressing. This refreshing salad is a simple, colorful way to enjoy summer produce.
I’ve been obsessed with summer fruits lately, buying more each weekend and turning them into quick dishes all week. This summer fruit salad was born from an overfull refrigerator — a common food-blogger problem: too much fresh food and not enough shelf space. If you keep finding extra produce in the back of your fridge, try making a large fruit salad like this one to use it up.
For this batch I used blueberries, blackberries, cantaloupe, peaches, plums and mango. I later discovered pineapple and bananas hiding in the fridge — they would have been lovely here too. The beauty of this recipe is its flexibility: swap or add strawberries, raspberries, grapes, cherries or any fruit you enjoy.
This salad is perfect for fruit lovers and takes only a few minutes to assemble. If you want to get fancy and use a melon baller, it will take a bit longer — I recently bought one and had fun practicing melon balls, though I still need more practice for perfect spheres. A short video tutorial can help if you want to try that technique.
To prepare, simply toss the chopped fruit in a large bowl, whisk the honey-lime dressing, pour it over the fruit and toss gently to coat. Chill briefly if you prefer the salad cold — it’s delicious either chilled or at room temperature.
* The total amount of cut fruit in this recipe was about 4.5 cups, depending on which fruits you use and how you chop them.
Summer Fruit Salad with Honey Lime Dressing
Ingredients
- 1/2 cantaloupe, diced or scooped into melon balls
- 1 mango, diced
- 2 peaches, diced
- 8-10 cherries, pitted and halved
- 3-4 plums, diced
- 2 cups berries (I used blueberries and blackberries)
Dressing
- 3 tablespoons honey
- 2 tablespoons lime juice
- pinch pepper
- mint leaves, for garnish
Instructions
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Toss all the prepared fruit together in a large bowl.
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In a small bowl whisk together the honey, lime juice and a pinch of pepper until smooth.
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Pour the dressing over the fruit and toss gently to combine.
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Garnish with fresh mint leaves and serve immediately or chill briefly before serving.
Nutrition
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Summer Fruit Salad with Honey Lime Dressing
