4.7 from 9 votes
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!
Prep Time
30 mins
Cook Time
2 mins
Total Time
32 mins
Servings:
6
servings
Calories:
34 kcal
Course:
Snacks
Cuisine:
American
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup water cold
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- lemon thick strips of peel, zest of 1
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
8 cups of washed and cut up fruit such as:
- grapes
- clementines
- raspberry
- strawberries
- blueberries
- blackberry
- pineapple
- apple
- melon
- mint sprigs 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.
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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 Information
Calories
34kcal
(2%)
Carbohydrates
8g
(3%)
Sodium
1mg
(0%)
Sugar
8g
(16%)
Nutrition Facts
Serving: 6 servings
Amount Per Serving
Calories 34
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 34kcal | 2% |
| Carbohydrates | 8g | 3% |
| Sodium | 1mg | 0% |
| Sugar | 8g | 16% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.