Fruit Salad Recipe
This Fruit Salad Recipe is filled with delicious fresh fruit and topped with a lemony vanilla simple syrup as a dressing. Enjoy!
Servings 6 servings
Calories 34kcal
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup cold water
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- zest of 1 lemon thick strips of peel
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
8 cups of washed and cut up fruit such as:
- grapes
- clementines
- raspberries
- strawberries
- blueberries
- blackberries
- pineapple
- apple
- melon
- sprigs of mint for garnish
Instructions
- In a small saucepan, bring water, sugar, and lemon peel to a light simmer until sugar has melted into the water completely.
- Remove from heat and stir in vanilla.
- Pour into a separate container and refrigerate to cool.
- Cut up and prepare the fruit.
- After 30 minutes, the syrup should be cool enough to work with. Drizzle over individual bowls of fruit and serve immediately OR pour syrup over a large bowl of fruit, stir to coat, cover and refrigerate until you're ready to serve.
- Top with springs of mint leaves.
Notes
Nutritional Information is for the fruit salad dressing. This will overall vary depending on what fruit you use and how much of it you add.
Nutrition
Calories: 34kcal | Carbohydrates: 8g | Sodium: 1mg | Sugar: 8g
