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Winter Fruit Salad with Maple-Lime Dressing is a healthy salad packed with vitamins! It will make a colorful and vibrant side dish for your Thanksgiving and Christmas menus!
This healthy and gluten-free salad utilizes seasonal winter fruit. The ingredient list includes red apples, pears, clementine oranges (or mandarin oranges), kiwi fruit, dried cranberries, and pomegranate seeds. This salad is packed with vitamins - all the good stuff you need, especially in the Winter.
Healthy recipe
This healthy winter fruit salad will fill you up with the nutrients and the vitamins during the cold winter months. It will also make a great holiday menu item, for Thanksgiving or Christmas or any other holiday.
Salad ingredients include red apples, pears, kiwi fruit, pomegranate seeds, dried cranberries, clementine oranges (you can use mandarin oranges, too) - all of that tossed in a delicious maple-lime dressing!
Other fruit salads
- Fruit Salad with Grapes and Honey-Lime Poppy Seed Dressing
- Creamy Vanilla Grape and Apple Salad
- Spinach Salad with Fruit and Maple-Lime Dressing
HOLIDAY MAIN COURSES TO SERVE WITH WINTER FRUIT SALAD:
Do you want to try something different for Thanksgiving or Christmas? Check out these 2 recipes for alternative main courses for the holidays:
- Roast Duck - an ultimate Thanksgiving or Christmas or New Year's Eve main course! This Roast Whole Duck has tender and juicy meat, crispy skin, and it's glazed with the honey-balsamic glaze to give the duck a beautiful roasted look.
- Duck Breast - make this sophisticated meal as a holiday main course!
Other winter salads
- Butternut Squash Salad with Roasted Brussels Sprouts, Cranberries, and Pecans - cinnamon butternut squash tossed with nuts and dried fruit. One of the best Thanksgiving side dishes!
- Autumn Salad with Pumpkin Seeds, Cranberries, and Pecans - this delicious Autumn salad features all our favorite seasonal ingredients!
- Butternut Squash and Spinach Salad with Pecans, Cranberries, Pomegranate - perfect healthy Thanksgiving salad with Poppy Seed Honey-Lime Dressing.
Winter Fruit Salad with Maple-Lime Dressing
Ingredients
Winter Fruit Salad:
- 2 red apples cored and diced
- 2 pears cored and diced
- 4 clementine oranges peeled and separated into segments
- 3 kiwi fruit peeled and sliced into thin rounds and then cut into quarters
- ½ cup dried cranberries
- 1 cup pomegranate seeds
Maple Lime Dressing:
- 2 tablespoons maple syrup
- 1 tablespoon lime juice freshly squeezed
Instructions
- Combine all salad ingredients (except the dressing ingredients) in a large bowl.
- In a separate small bowl, whisk together the dressing ingredients (maple syrup and lime juice).
- Pour the dressing over the salad and gently toss to coat.
- Serve immediately.
Nutrition
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Can I make this fruit salad a few hours before serving it? I am worried about the pears and apples from turning. Any tips appreciated!
I realize this is an old comment but in case this helps anyone else - I made this to bring to work for a party and put the dressing on the night before. I did not have issues with the apples and pears turning because I added a little more lime juice than this called for and citrus helps keep fruit from browning. (I also used canned mandarin oranges so the juice from those probably helped too.)
Thank you for such a great feedback and your tips!
I have found that if I put white powdered sugar on Apple's they do not turn dark, I just sprinkle powder sugar over all the salad and it really keeps it longer and doesn't turn dark!
Brought it to a farm potluck with a maple syrup theme this afternoon, left with an empty bowl. Love it.
Diane, I am so happy to hear that! 🙂
This may be a silly question but ... if you pour on the dressing a few hours ahead will the fruit get too soggy?
I would add the dressing right before serving for best results!
BEST fruit salad EVER!!!!
Happy to hear that! 🙂
I recently made this beautiful salad for a baby shower and received many compliments. Pretty presentation and very yummy tasting! I will definitely make it again.
So happy to hear that! 🙂
I am going to try it but it would be hard for me to make it last minute. I see that you say it’s better served immediately but what if you can’t. Will it still be ok even if perhaps not as good?
It will still be pretty good, it's just best when served immediately.
What can I substitute for the pomegranate seeds
Is there another fruit I can substitute for the pomegranate seed?
Morning starts with fruit salad always gives me extra energy to work hard. So thanks for sharing this recipe
How many servings?
How many servings does this make?
About 6 servings.
Made this for Christmas dinner and it was a BIG hit
So glad you enjoyed it! 🙂
The lime juice is a lovely addition this fruit salad. Don't leave it out!
Yes, I agree, the lime juice give a nice flavor to the rest of the fruit! 🙂
Does this keep well refrigerated? If so, for about how long?
It's better served immediately.
This recipe looks great. I imagine that the lime juices would prevent the apples and Pears from browning?
To further Kallee's question, is there any downsides to serving this after refrigerating? I would think that the juices would slightly rehydrate the crainsins and the flavors would blend. kiwi I do find best served immediately because it's so soft. Thanks!
Just wondering if there is any way this salad can be prepared ahead of time? Perhaps without the dressing?
cut up fruit ahead or baggies' or place in separate bowls. apples and pears will need something on them to stop browning.
Love this! So colorful and bright. Makes me forget its november 1st! ahhh the time is flying
Thank you! I love how colorful this salad is!