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Transform your favorite fruits into an edible bauble with this beautiful Christmas Fruit Salad.
The fun presentation adds a pop of color to any holiday table, and the bite-sized fruit pieces are perfect for snacking, making it easy to add nutrients to a sugar-filled holiday.
I love indulgent holiday treats like my chocolate snowflakes and cookies for Santa, and I make them with my kids every year. However, when hosting a holiday meal, I also include veggie and fruit-filled side dishes like my snowglobe burrata platter, smiling Santa caprese, and this easy Christmas fruit salad recipe.
Featuring strawberries, cantaloupe, mango, and honeydew arranged in a beautiful gradient, this easy platter is a real showstopper. Enjoy it as a snack or serve it for dessert with ice cream, cake, or whipped cream! You can even mix and match different in-season fruits to enjoy the platter any time of year. Prepare it a few hours in advance, and rest easy knowing you’ll have the perfect side dish and can enjoy more time with your guests.
Salad Dressing
For an easy fruit salad dressing, mix 2 tablespoons of honey with the juice of 2 limes, then pour over the fruit salad when serving.
❤️Why You’ll Love this Fruit Salad
- Perfect light dessert with a festive presentation.
- Perfect for crowds.
- Customizable according to the fruit you have available.
Christmas Fruit Salad Ingredients
- Strawberries: Choose bright red, firm berries.
- Mango: The best mangos for this are firm, but with a slight give.
- Cantaloupe: The ones with the orange flesh.
- Galia melon: The ones with the green flesh.
How to Make a Christmas Fruit Salad
- Prepare the bauble: Slice the cantaloupe and shape it into a round bauble.
- Cut two holes with a skewer, then push a piece of string through.
- Prepare the fruit: Halve the strawberries, and cube the two melons and mango.
- Assemble: Arrange the fruit and top with the bauble.
Possible Variations
- Strawberries: Swap for pomegranate arils, cranberries, figs, raspberries, red grapes, cherries, or watermelon.
- Melons: Try honeydew, yellow watermelon, canary melon, kiwi, green apples, pear, or green grapes.
- Mango: Or banana, star fruit, peach, pineapple, or papaya.
- Presentation: Arrange the fruit randomly for a different look.
- Cookie cutters: Use star-shaped cutters to make fun shapes out of fruit. Arrange in a row on top of the fruit salad.
- Garnish: Edible flowers, fresh lemon balm, or mint.
How to Store Leftovers
Keep them in an airtight container in the fridge and enjoy within 2 days.
FAQs
Yes. Drizzle it with lemon or lime juice and cover with plastic wrap. Store the platter in the refrigerator until you are ready to serve.
Ice cream, whipping cream, chocolate chips, or custard.
Fresh fruit is best for this recipe.
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Christmas Fruit Salad
Ingredients
- 9 strawberries
- 1 cantaloupe
- 1 mango
- 1 Galia melon
Instructions
- Slice a piece of cantaloupe. Set this aside.
- Use the round cutter to make the bauble shape out of cantaloupe.
- Make two holes with a metal straw or skewer.
- Push the string through.
- Halve the strawberries and place these first.
- Cube the remaining cantaloupe, mango and galia, and place them in this order next to the strawberry.
- Place the bauble at the top of the platter and serve.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
