Fall Fruit Salad (Thanksgiving Fruit Salad)
This fresh Fruit Salad is perfect for the holiday table. It's colorful, full of flavor, and healthy. Sweet, juicy, and crisp, it's the dessert salad that will leave everyone craving seconds!
Ingredients
- 2 apples
- 2 pears
- 3 clementines
- 1 cup blackberries
- 1 cup grapes
- ½ cup pecans
- ½ to 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 2 tbsp maple syrup
- 2 tsp lemon juice
- ½ cup pomegranate seeds
- mint leaves
Instructions
- Wash your apples and pears under cool water. Once they're clean, use a sharp knife to cut them into bite-sized pieces. To keep them from going brown, squeeze some lemon juice all over them and stir them well.Peel the skin off of clementines and separate them into segments.
- In a large bowl, combine apples, pears, clementines, grapes, blackberries, and pecans.
- Sprinkle cinnamon and drizzle the maple syrup. Make sure everything is well mixed, so each piece of fruit gets a bit of the cinnamon and syrup.
- Keep it in the fridge until ready to serve. Top your salad with pomegranate seeds and mint leaves when serving.
Notes
- Choose sweet, ripe, but also firm fruits.
- Cut all the fruit to a similar size.
- Mix diced apples and pears with lemon juice to prevent browning.
- Substitute maple syrup with honey, brown sugar or a sugar substitute.
- Add different nuts like almonds, cashews, walnuts or seeds.
- Use apple pie or pumpkin pie spice with or instead of ground cinnamon.
Nutrition
Calories: 197 kcal | Total Carbs: 37 g | Protein: 2 g | Fat: 7 g | Saturated Fat: 1 g | Sodium: 3 mg | Fiber: 7 g | Sugar: 27 g | Vitamin A: 120 IU | Vitamin C: 31 mg | Calcium: 44 mg | Iron: 1 mg | Net Carbs: 30 g
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