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This Winter Fruit Salad uses commonly found winter fruit and it’s mixed together with a delicious greek yogurt and poppy seed dressing. Perfect for parties or for a delicious dessert!
Winter Fruit Salad
Winter Fruit SaladThink fruit salads are just for the summer like my Chia Honey Lime Fruit Salad? Well we’ve got the perfect Winter Fruit Salad to serve when the weather is frightful but you are still craving a big, refreshing bowl of fruit.
For this recipe, we paired together accessible Winter fruits with a delicious and tangy greek yogurt dressing with poppy seeds to make the most for the best cold weather sweet salad.
Ingredients Needed:
We included some of the most commonly available winter fruit. Feel free to substitute in what you have. We loved the addition of bananas here, but don’t use very ripe bananas or they can turn mushy quickly. Use bananas that have just turned yellow.
- Apples
- Mandarins
- Bananas
- Kiwis
- Pomegranate Arils
What other fruit can be added?
Most fruit would work well in this salad! You can change it out for whatever is in season or what is available for you!
How to Make the Yogurt Dressing
The name of the game for this dressing is EASY! Just mix up all of the ingredients in a bowl and add to your cut up fruit.
Here are the ingredients:
- Greek Yogurt (feel free to use dairy or dairy-free)
- Honey
- Fresh Squeezed Orange Juice
- Poppy Seeds
What Fruit Is Best In The Winter?
- Apples
- Kiwi
- Oranges
- Strawberries
- Grapes
- Pomegranates
- Plums
Make Your Fruit Salad Instantly Better
Fruit salads are great, but they’re even better when they’re elevated! Add a touch of sweetness, citrus, and flavor, like with this special (and easy) dressing!
If you like this fruit forward recipe, check out these others:
- Peach Fruit Leather
- Grilled Steak Salad with Pineapple and Avocado
- 2-Ingredient Strawberry Fruit Leather
- Spicy Shrimp and Citrus Salad
- Strawberry and Mango Salsa Chicken
- Easy Blueberry Jam with Chia Seeds
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Winter Fruit Salad
Ingredients
- 2 apples cored and diced
- 6 mandarins peeled and segmented
- 2 bananas peeled and sliced
- 5 kiwis peeled and diced
- 1 cup pomegranate arils seeds
- ¼ cup plain greek yogurt
- 1 tablespoons poppy seeds
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 2 tablespoons orange juice
Instructions
- Add apples, mandarins, bananas, kiwis and pomegranate arils to a large bowl.
- In a small bowl whisk together the greek yogurt, poppy seeds, honey, and orange juice.
- Pour dressing over fruit and gently toss to coat.
- Fruit salad will keep for about 24 hours.
This looks amazing. Will it keep a few days in the fridge?
Yes.
This sounds so good I can’t wait to try it! Where do I find poppyseeds?
Any spice section of the grocery store!