Minty Fruit Salad

I make fruit salad often in the summer, using whatever fruit is at hand, such as kiwi, peaches, plums, grapes, berries, mango, pineapple and more. I use no sweetener at all, because the fruit and their inevitable juices are quite sweet on their own. But I am grateful to be reminded of mint for these salads. Now to find a mint plant to grow at home. Fresh mint is also great in iced tea, lemonade and other summer beverages.

I much prefer a dollop of maple syrup to honey!

Apple is a good addition.

Would be useful to know how many servings this recipe provides.

Made this, loved it. I used yellow and dark red plums, nectarines, peaches, apricots, mango and pitted cherries plus the OJ and the honey. I was tempted to leave the honey out but it was perfect. I made it a bit ahead of time and noticed that the colours and textures suffered a bit- it is good enough to do at the last minute. (Added the cherries last and tossed very gently so they didn't stain all the lighter coloured fruit.) A sublime summer brunch addition.

This fruit salad was a huge hit for July 4th. I prepped it earlier in the day and refrigerated it for about 4 hours. I was a little worried the fruit would get mushy - but it was perfect. The freshly squeezed OJ, honey and the star of the show, mint, were a terrific flavor combo. I also scattered small mint leaves on top to serve (in addition to the shredded leaves in the initial prep). I need to learn how to chop mangoes more efficiently though!

Served it with pancakes, homemade blueberry syrup and fried eggs. Excellent accompaniment. Will make it again. Would be great with pork chops, too. I like Theresa’s idea to add Pomegranate Arils. I’ll do that next time!

You don’t have to measure anything for this recipe if you don’t want to. Just chop some fruit and fill a bowl with it, squeeze orange juice over it until all the fruit is coated but not drowning in it, squeeze a drizzle of honey (if the fruit is sweet it won’t need much), and julienne a handful of mint. Mix it all together and you’ll be good to go

I was at the store planning to make Melissa Clark’s sweet and spicy fruit salad, but couldn’t find some of the ingredients for it and pivoted to this salad bcuz I remembered how simple it was. I used a mix of nectarines, strawberries, (pre-cut) mango, blueberry/raspberry/blackberry (they came in the same carton), and a sliced orange. It’s the middle of winter but the produce in TX is still sweet. This was delightful! Maybe the best fruit salad I’ve ever had.

This was delicious. I threw in some candied pecans and a smidge of Grand Marnier. Very flexible – very delicious.

I replaced orange juice with lemon juice or lime. Needs something more - Ginger?

7/29/22 used pineapple and cantaloupe with the honey and mint. Good -chop the mint finer- ripped pieces and some a little too large. Tony liked.

Strawb cantaloupe grape blueberry

I added blueberries and blackberries and took the advice to add a splash of grand marnier. Excellent!

A little disenchanted with this one. Mine was overly juicy and ended up looking like the soupy fruit cocktail you get in classrooms. I used peaches, cherries, apricots, plums.