Almost everyone loves some kind of fruit. And it has somehow become a habit to place beautifully decorated vitamin slices or whole fruits on the holiday table. However, it will be much more economical, healthier, more original and tastier to serve amazing light salads.
They are ready for one or two. All you need to do is crumble the ingredients and pour in a delicious sweet and sour dressing. Children can be pampered with a sauce based on condensed milk. Adults will prefer yoghurt or sour cream, maybe even flavored with a spoonful of cognac or liqueur. But both will enjoy a delicious scoop of ice cream neatly placed on top of a fruit salad.
By the way, it is not necessary to season such desserts with products containing milk. Honey, a couple of spoons of natural juice, liquid syrup from jam, and even just a sprinkling of powdered sugar, which will eliminate the slight sourness, are also quite suitable.
It is also worth noting that fruit salads tend to not adhere to strict proportions and types of ingredients. They can easily be replaced, excluded or supplemented as desired. It will still turn out very tasty.
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Classic fruit salad
Even as a child, my mother and grandmother tried to prepare more vitamin-rich food for my brothers and me. Especially in the summer heat, we were glad not to have hot soups, but to have cool salads made from seasonal fruits.
There were enough first berries, apples and juicy nectarines for everyone, thanks to salads, and no one fought for the right to be the first to eat them. Lovingly chopped fruits, sprinkled with nuts or seeds, and topped with cool sour cream and sugar seemed tastier than any dessert.
In fact, any fruit slice can be called classic. The main thing is that the tastes are in harmony. Those. There were as many slightly sour components as there were sweet ones.
Ingredients:
- Strawberries – 5 pcs.
- Mandarin, kiwi, peach – 3 pcs each.
- Apple, banana – 2 pcs.
- Nuts – 4 tbsp. l.
- Ice cream, yogurt, condensed milk - to taste and desire.
Preparation:
1. Wash all berries and fruits well, dry them, remove seeds and stems, cut them into equal pieces and mix.
2. Sprinkle any chopped nuts on top and add thick yogurt, ice cream or condensed milk for beauty and sweetness. Cool slightly and serve.
As you can see, there is absolutely nothing complicated in preparation!
Bon appetit!
Melon with ham
An appetizer with melon and Parma ham can easily serve as the main dish on the menu, or simply serve as an addition to main courses. If desired, pine nuts or almond petals are added to it.
Fruit and berry salad will appear before us from a completely different perspective. And even with a touch of romance.
We will need:
- Farfalle (pasta in the shape of butterflies) - 150 g;
- Parma ham - 100 g;
- tomatoes - 2 pcs.;
- melons - 250 g;
- zucchini - 0.5 pcs.;
- mozzarella - 120 g;
- lemon - 1 pc.;
- olive oil - 3 tbsp. l.;
- olives - 20 g;
- garlic - 0.5 cloves;
- basil, pepper, salt - to taste.
Cooking:
Cut the ham and zucchini into thin strips, mozzarella into cubes. Divide the tomatoes into quarters. You can use whole cherry tomatoes.
Cut the melon in half and remove the seeds. Using a special ice cream spoon, remove balls from the pulp. To do this, insert the tool with the rounded side down, press it towards the handle and turn it.
In a bowl, mix the oil, lemon juice, squeeze out the garlic, and tear the basil. Salt, pepper, submerge all ingredients, leaving only the ham. Mix. Serve the salad with meat strips and boiled pasta.
Fruit dessert with chocolate
Very often in restaurants and cafes, fruit salads are served with pieces of chocolate or topped with a thick dark topping, flavored with cocoa or coffee.
Topping is sweet fruit and berry syrups that are used to diversify the taste of desserts.
Why are we worse than chefs? If you have at least a third of a milk bar or a couple of candies in the refrigerator, you can always chop them up and sprinkle them on top of the dessert.
Ingredients:
- Yogurt – 150 gr.
- Peach, kiwi – 2 pcs.
- Apple, pear, banana - 1 pc.
- Milk chocolate – 50 gr.
Preparation:
1. Remove the cores from the pear and apple, and remove the fluffy skin from the kiwi. Cut all the fruits into equal centimeter cubes and place them in a deep cup. Stir and let stand in the refrigerator for 10 minutes.
2. Place the salad in bowls, pour over thick yogurt and sprinkle with grated chocolate on top.
Bon appetit!
Curd and yoghurt fruit salad for children
The younger generation needs calcium to strengthen bones and grow. Sometimes children refuse to eat cottage cheese in its pure form. However, you can always outsmart them and feed them their daily requirement by simply adding it to their favorite treat. Moreover, you can simply sprinkle the curd lumps, or you can prepare a thick cream.
Ingredients:
- Cottage cheese – 300 gr.
- Yogurt – 180 gr.
- Grapes, strawberries, cherries – 200 gr.
- Apple, kiwi, banana – 2 pcs.
- Vanilla sugar – 2 tbsp. l.
Preparation:
1. Grind the cottage cheese with vanilla sugar or beat in a blender, adding half the yogurt.
2. Remove seeds from cherries and grapes. You can cut nectarines in half - this will not deteriorate their taste one bit, and it will be more convenient to eat. We cut strawberries and other fruits into cubes, half rings or triangles - as your heart desires. We connect all the cuts.
3. Place the mixed salad in the molds in the following sequence: curd cream, fruit, another curd layer, vitamin slices and pour over yogurt.
Bon appetit!
Salad "Space"
Cut up the most common vegetables, only purple and red, and season with walnut oil sauce. The taste will be indescribable!
You will need:
For the salad:
300 g red cabbage, 1 pod of red bell pepper, 10 cherry tomatoes, 1 red onion.
For dressing:
2-3 tbsp.
l. ground walnuts, 0.5 tsp. powdered sugar, 2 cloves of garlic, 1.25 tsp. mustard, 1 tsp. sea salt, 3 tbsp. l. walnut oil, 0.25 ground black pepper, 5 sprigs of purple basil. Preparation:
Mix shredded cabbage, thinly sliced onions and peppers, halves or quarters of tomatoes in a container of suitable volume. Chop the basil as finely as possible, add nuts and the rest of the dressing ingredients, blend with a blender until smooth and mix with the vegetables.
Classic fruit and yogurt salad
What could be simpler than crumbling your favorite berries and fruits and pouring them with sweet or natural slightly sour yogurt? A healthy breakfast, a delicious dessert for a holiday, or just a small snack - all this can be said about this classic salad.
Ingredients:
- Yogurt – 200 gr.
- Apple, kiwi, tangerine – 2 pcs.
- Banana – 1 pc.
- Confectionery multi-colored sprinkles - for decoration.
Preparation:
1. Separate tangerines into slices. We peel the apple from the seeds, and then cut it, together with the pulp of the kiwi and banana, into beautiful, identical pieces. Pour in yogurt and stir.
2. After cooling for ten minutes, place into portioned cups or wide glasses and sprinkle colorful edible confetti on top.
Bon appetit!
With banana
A nutritious and tasty banana salad will appeal not only to adult guests, but also to children. This aromatic fruit is rich in nutrients, complements perfectly with other fruits and berries, and is also very filling: it can replace dinner or breakfast. Therefore, be sure to try to please your loved ones with a fragrant and tender dish.
Ingredients:
- banana – 1 pc.;
- apple – 1 pc.;
- grapes - a small brush;
- yogurt – 50 ml;
- honey – 1 teaspoon;
- lemon juice – 1 tbsp.
Cooking method:
- Wash the fruits, remove the seeds from the apples. Separate the grapes from the branch.
- Cut the banana into slices, leave the grapes whole.
- Cut the apple into large cubes. Sprinkle with lemon juice.
- Prepare the dressing: combine low-fat yogurt with honey.
- Place all ingredients in a bowl and pour over the dressing. Decorate the dessert at your own discretion (the version with the addition of a celery stalk is considered original).
Fruit salad with nuts and raisins
Roasted walnuts and pre-soaked raisins add special satiety and charm to fruit salads. Any fruit will do, but if you want to surprise your guests with originality and give exclusive pleasure, then add buttery avocado cubes and sweet pineapple pieces. Ice cream with chocolate chips will complete the look of a chic dessert.
Ingredients:
- Canned pineapple – 300 gr.
- Yogurt 8% - 200 gr.
- Raisins, walnuts, strawberries - 150 g each.
- Ice cream – 150 gr.
- Chocolate – ½ bar.
- Mandarin – 3 pcs.
- Banana, peach - 2 pcs.
- Avocado – 1 pc.
Preparation:
1. Soak raisins for 15 minutes in warm water, rinse and dry. Chop the roasted walnuts into small pieces. Remove the pits from the avocados and peaches and cut the pulp into cubes. We separate the tangerines into slices and remove the skin from them. Chop bananas with strawberries and pineapples into equal pieces. Mix the fruits together.
2. Place a scoop of ice cream in wide bowls, pour the fruit and berry mixture on the sides and on top of it. Pour in yogurt and sprinkle with chopped chocolate.
Bon appetit!
Beet salad with apple and carrots
Ingredients:
- beets - 1 pc. 300 gr.;
- carrots - 1
- walnuts - 4 pcs.;
- sweet and sour apple - 1 pc.;
- lemon juice - 1 tsp;
- salt - to taste;
- mayonnaise - to taste.
Cooking method:
Wash the beets and boil until tender. The cooking time depends on the size of the beets; the finished beets become soft and can be easily pierced with a knife. Cool the finished beets, peel and cut into cubes. Boil the carrots the same way
Fruit salad in sour cream and lemon cream
Lovers of lemon flavor can easily be pleased with a chic cream based on citrus, sour cream and cream, whipped with sugar. It is ideal for very sweet fruit and berry combinations. To prevent the zest from becoming bitter, it is advisable to pour boiling water over it and the harsh essential oils will disappear.
Ingredients:
- Sour cream – 400 ml.
- Apple, grapes, strawberries, kiwi, banana - 100 g each.
- Vanilla sugar – 10 gr.
- Lemon - 1 pc.
- Cream – 3 tbsp. l.
Preparation:
1. Wash and peel all fruits (except citrus) and strawberries well. Cut into any pieces you like in their shape. The main thing is that they are convenient to eat without having to bite off many times.
2. Combine sour cream with cream and vanilla sugar. Beat well with a mixer. Using a fine grater, remove the zest from the scalded lemon and add it to the cream. We also pour in the squeezed juice. Mix everything again with an electric whisk.
3. Place the salad in deep glasses or other convenient portioned beautiful dishes and pour in a gorgeous-smelling cream.
Bon appetit!
Korean salad
If you prepare more of this salad, you can roll it into jars and leave it for the winter, and then treat it to guests or family at any time.
You will need:
1.5 kg of white cabbage and carrots, 1 kg of onions and bell peppers, 2 packets of ready-made Korean carrot seasoning, 2-3 cloves of garlic, 1 chili pepper, 1 tsp.
ground black pepper, 1 glass of sunflower oil, 1 glass of 9 percent vinegar, 2-3 tbsp. l. regular table salt, 6 tbsp. l. Sahara. Preparation:
Grate the carrots using a Korean carrot grater, mix with thinly sliced peppers and shredded cabbage, cut the onion into half rings and fry in oil, pass the garlic through a press. Pour the mixture of vinegar, seasonings, salt and sugar over the vegetables placed in a bowl, add the chili cut into rings (without seeds and stalks), stir. After an hour you can try. If you decide to prepare such a salad for the winter, then put it in jars, sterilize it for 20-25 minutes and roll it up.
Fruit and berry tropical salad with spinach and cottage cheese
Last season, during a trip to India, I had the opportunity to enjoy a very interesting salad of mango and strawberries, which were complemented by local unleavened paneer cheese and... spinach leaves! The combination, I tell you, is very original! Arriving home, we wanted to repeat this taste, but we replaced the cheese with homemade cottage cheese and added some berries for variety.
Ingredients:
- Cottage cheese – 100 gr.
- Strawberries – 5 pcs.
- Raspberries, blueberries – 50 g each.
- Mango – 1 pc.
- Spinach – 30 gr.
- Grated almonds - to taste.
Preparation:
1. Cut strawberries and mango into pieces. Leave red and black berries whole.
Berries can be replaced with grapes - the taste is even more delicate!
2. Sprinkle the bottom of the plate with washed and dried spinach leaves. Place fruit and berry slices on top. Add raspberries and blueberries. Sprinkle with coarse cottage cheese and grated almond petals. You can add yogurt, whipped cream or ice cream to taste, or eat as is.
Bon appetit!
Curd-gelatin fruit salad
Many people love marmalade, jelly desserts and all kinds of mousses. But at home you can prepare an equally amazing fruit delicacy, filled with curd-gelatin mass.
Ingredients:
- Cottage cheese – 300 gr.
- Sour cream – 150 gr.
- Water – 100 ml.
- Orange, apple, kiwi - 1 pc.
- Sugar – 2 tbsp. l.
- Gelatin – 1 tbsp. l.
Preparation:
1. First of all, let's prepare a delicate cream. Beat sour cream with cottage cheese and sugar until smooth. Dissolve the gelatin with warm boiled water and, adding it to the thick milk mixture in a thin stream, continue stirring with a whisk until we get a pleasant white consistency.
2. Cut the fruit into triangles, circles or cubes and mix them together.
3. Place in wide glasses, alternating fruit layers with thickening cream. Let it cool for at least half an hour, and then delight your sweet tooth.
Bon appetit!
Refreshing fruit salad with mint
Usually they try to use watermelons less often in salads, since they release their juice very quickly. However, they are just perfect for quenching your thirst! And in the summer, and even after a stormy New Year's Eve, you are always very thirsty. Therefore, a light, refreshing salad will come in handy.
Ingredients:
- Watermelon pulp – 150 gr.
- Strawberries – 5 pcs.
- Kiwi – 2 pcs.
- Mango – 1 pc.
- Orange and lemon juice - 1 tbsp. l.
- Mint leaves – 5-8 pcs.
Preparation:
1. Cut berries and fruits into pieces of any convenient shape. Sprinkle them with mixed lemon-orange juice and sprinkle with chopped mint leaves.
2. Pistachio or mint ice cream and whipped cream can be added as desired.
Bon appetit!
With kiwi
Vitamin C helps the body strengthen its protective functions and is an excellent preventive substance against colds and viral diseases. An excellent source of this vitamin will be not only vegetables, but also kiwi salads. Children sometimes refuse this fruit because of the unpleasant appearance of the small black seeds, so if you are thinking about how to prepare a delicious dessert for your child's birthday, try carefully scraping out the seeds with a teaspoon.
Ingredients:
- kiwi – 2 pcs.;
- banana – 2 pcs.;
- tangerine – 2 pcs.;
- pomegranate – 1 pc.;
- orange syrup - 4 tablespoons.
Cooking method:
- Wash the fruits well and remove the skins. Separate the pomegranate into grains.
- Cut kiwi, banana, tangerine into small pieces.
- Lay out all the fruits in layers, interspersing them with pomegranate seeds.
- Drizzle with orange syrup and garnish with fresh mint leaves or whipped cream.
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Peach-orange fruit salad
A bright and juicy reminder of summer – peaches! It doesn’t matter whether they are fresh, defrosted, pulled from sweet homemade sugar syrup or from a can. They still warm the soul with their aroma. And if you add a sunny orange and some ripe grapes to them, then a charge of positive energy and energy will be provided for the whole day!
Ingredients:
- Grapes – 80 gr.
- Peach – 2 pcs.
- Orange – 1 pc.
- Honey – 2 tbsp. l.
- Apple juice – 2 tbsp. l.
- Ice cream - optional.
Preparation:
1. Chop peaches and orange into neat pieces, centimeter thick. We halve the grapes and remove the seeds from them.
2. Place the fruits in glass cups and sprinkle with a mixture of honey and apple juice. Pretty cubes or small scoops of sundae or creme brulee flavored ice cream will add a soft, creamy touch.
Bon appetit!
The only disadvantage of such healthy vitamin salads is that sliced fruit produces juices very quickly. Therefore, it is advisable to cook them shortly before serving and it would be good to cool them slightly before doing so.
Such desserts laid out on lettuce leaves look very beautiful. They can be used to stuff citrus skins or tartlets neatly cut in half.
