Tropical Fruit Salad with Agave-Lime Dressing

This colorful tropical fruit salad with agave-lime dressing will transport you to the shores of a tropical destination. Healthy, refreshing, and easy to make, it’s the perfect choice for picnics and potlucks on hot summer days.

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🥥 WHY YOU’LL LOVE THIS TROPICAL FRUIT SALAD

• You can find the tropical fruit at most markets during the spring and summer months. No looking around for international ingredients. Find the tastiest fruit at local farmer’s markets.
• It’s colorful, healthy, light and delicious. Most everyone loves refreshing cool fruit. Especially on a hot afternoon.
• You can prep salad several hours in advance by cutting up the fruit and storing them in separate containers in the fridge. When you’re ready to serve this tropical fruit salad, toss everything together in a large bowl. This will only take a few minutes.
• Come home with an empty dish, every time. Take it picnics, potlucks, backyard gatherings, and church socials. Watch it disappear. This tropical fruit salad is usually the first dish gone.

🛒 Ingredients

• Pineapple: If you’re in a hurry, or if pineapples are out of season, feel free to use canned pineapples instead fresh.
• Mangos: A delicious tropical fruit with a unique flavor profile. Many people describe the flavor asa fruity combination of peach, apple, pear, orange, banana and cantaloupe.
• Kiwi: Juicy and light, this tropical fruit has a lovely balance of sweet and sour with a hint of tang.
• Strawberries: When picked at the peak of ripeness, these heart-shaped red berries are sweet and tasty with a delicious aroma. They add both color and flavor to this tropical fruit salad.
• Blueberries: Add a wonderful texture to the tropical mixture. When bitten into, they give off a very light squirt of slightly-sweet juice.
• Banana: Peel and slice this ingredient at the very last moment, then add it to the salad. Sliced banana tends to brown very quickly.
• Unsweetened Coconut: Feel free to use wide-sliced or shredded. If you prefer a sweeter tropical fruit salad, use sweetened coconut.
• Lime Juice: A citrus juice with a tart acidic taste and just a hint of sweet.
• Light Agave Nectar: If you’re not familiar with agave nectar, you’re in for a real treat. It tastes similar to honey, but the flavor is more neutral and slightly less sweet. It’s perfect for making a light salad dressing that allows the natural flavor of each tropical fruit to shine through.

🍍 How to Cut a Pineapple FOR TROPICAL FRUIT SALAD

• STEP 1: On a cutting board, lay the pineapple on its side. With a large chef’s knife slice off the first 1/2 inch of the fruit to remove the remove the top and crown. Slice off the bottom end, removing 1/2″ to 3/4″.
• STEP 2: Stand the pineapple straight up on the cutting board. Cut it in half, slicing straight down the middle. The core is now visible.
• STEP 3: Start with one half of the pineapple. Line up your knife with the edge of the core and slice inward at a diagonal. Rotate the pineapple and slice along the other side of the core moving your knife down and inward. Repeat this process with the second half of the fruit.
• STEP 4: Cut each of the halves in half. Take each quarter of the fruit and slice it down toward the skin. Now it’s time to remove the prickly skin. Take the knife and cut off the rind.

📖 How to Make TROPICAL Fruit Salad

RECIPE PREP: Refrigerate all the fruit, except bananas, for at least 2 hours before assembling the salad. We want this dish to be cool and refreshing.

• STEP 1: Assemble the simple dressing: whisk together the agave nectar and freshly-squeezed lime juice. Set it aside.
• STEP 2: Slice the flesh of the pineapple into bite-size pieces. Remove the skin of the kiwi and slice it. Peel the mango. Slice the flesh of the fruit surrounding the core. Wash, hull and slice the strawberries.
• STEP 3: Wait until the very last minute to slice the bananas. Add them into the fruit salad until just before serving time. Bananas not only get soggy and brown very quickly, they also have a very strong distinct taste that can begin to permeate the rest of the fruit.
• STEP 4: Place the pineapple, kiwi, mangos, strawberries and blueberries into a mixing bowl. Drizzle the agave-lime dressing over the fruit. With clean hands or a spoon, gently mix the the fruit together. Garnish the tropical fruit salad with coconut.

👉🏻 ALLERGY AWARENESS: Some people may be allergic to coconut. So when serving this salad at a party, it’s best to leave the coconut out of the dish. Instead, place the coconut in a separate bowl as an optional garnish.

👩🏻‍🍳 RECIPE FAQ

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🥗 MORE COOL SUMMER SALADS

Beat the heat with these cool and refreshing summer salads. Need to feed a crowd? Just double the recipe.

• Cucumber Salad
• Cold Spaghetti Salad
• Watermelon Arugula Salad
• Strawberry Spinach Salad
• Watergate Salad
• Chinese Chicken Salad
• Classic Macaroni Salad

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