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Old Fashioned Fruit Salad (with Honey Lime Dressing)

Published: Nov 23, 2021 by Terri Gilson · Modified: Jun 23, 2022 · As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. This post may contain affiliate links · Leave a Comment

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This Old Fashioned Fruit Salad is the way my Mom makes it and it's the best! So obviously I wanted to share it here. So what makes this fruit salad so special? It's the combination of the fruits she uses (cantaloupe, strawberries, pears, kiwi, peaches, oranges and grapes) and the addition of crushed pineapple. But I also serve it with a honey lime dressing that elevates it to that next level of deliciousness!

easy fruit salad in white bowl with honey lime dressing being poured over salad

Fruit salad is an easy to make and a great guilt-free dessert for any time. This one also makes an excellent choice for a breakfast fruit salad. It pairs perfectly with almost any breakfast or brunch, but especially with my Easy Eggs Benedict with Prosciutto & Quick Blender Artichoke & Roasted Red Pepper Hollandaise Sauce. This Classic Fruit salad is also ideal for taking along to a potluck or brunch!

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  • 🥘Ingredients
  • 🔪Instructions
  • 🎥 Videos
  • 💭 Top tip
  • 📖Variations & Substitutions
  • 🥘Main Dishes to accompany fruit salad
  • 🍽Equipment
  • 👪 Serving size
  • 🌡️Storage
  • 🦺Food safety
  • ⭐ Reviews
  • 📋Old Fashioned Fruit Salad Recipe (with honey lime dressing)
  • 🍰More Healthy Desserts

This easy Fruit salad is ideal as a dessert on its own or as an addition to a dessert buffet. A lot of people like to serve a classic fruit salad with Thanksgiving, Christmas or Easter meals!

🥘Ingredients

My Mom never uses blueberries or raspberries in her fruit salad recipe because they run. This is especially important if you're making it a day in advance. I like to make it in advance because there's lots of chopping. You can use fresh or canned fruit (oranges or peaches, depending on availability).

fruit for fruit salad on a faux wood surface

For this old fashioned recipe, you'll need:

  • canned crushed pineapple
  • kiwi
  • strawberries
  • mandarin oranges *use fresh or canned
  • peaches - *use fresh or canned
  • cantaloupe
  • pears
  • grapes * red or green

For the Honey Lime Dressing you'll need:

  • liquid honey
  • fresh lime
bottle of liquid home, lime, lime being juiced on yellow juicer, with bowl of lime juice in front and zester on the side

See recipe card for quantities.

🔪Instructions

  1. Slice cantaloupe in half, remove seeds, skin and and cut cantaloupe into cubes.
  2. Hull and slice strawberries (see video on "how to hull strawberries below). Peel oranges and separate into segments
  3. Drain peaches and set aside juice (don't throw away - see Top Tip)
  4. Chop peaches.
  5. Remove skin from kiwis and chop. * I use the spoon method to peel - it's the easiest - see video below.
  6. Remove core from pear, peel skin and chop.
collage of 6 photos showing how to make classic fruit salad

🎥 Videos

How to Hull Strawberries video

How to peel a kiwi with a spoon

Add all chopped fruit to bowl, as well grapes. Then add the canned crushed pineapple (and liquid) and mix together.

classic fruit salad in a white bowl with wooden serving spoons on each side (on faux wooden surface)

To make the citrus dressing:

  1. Juice half a lime
  2. Add the zest from half the lime and honey to lime juice and whisk together.
  3. Pour over salad and mix.
whisk mixing lime juice, honey and lime zest in white bowl

💭 Top tip

Don't throw away your peach juice- add it to the juice in your fridge (it goes great with orange juice!) This is what my Mom always did; she hates to waste food 🙂

drained peach juice in dole peach container on black cutting board

📖Variations & Substitutions

This delicious fruit salad is naturally gluten-free, dairy-free and Weight Watchers friendly!

  • Vegan - use agave instead of honey - just use ½ the amount
  • Bananas - if you want to use bananas, add them to each individual serving, at time of serving.
  • Watermelon - add watermelon if you like (my Mom does sometimes)
  • Pineapple- you can use pineapple chunks instead of crushed
  • Honey Lime Dressing - you can make this without the dressing if you want to save on calories/WW points, but it really does taste even more amazing with the dressing!
  • Yogurt Dressing- serve it with vanilla yogurt, mango, strawberry or the yogurt of your choice.
  • Whipped cream- Serve it with a dollop of whipped cream, cool whip or another whipped topping
  • As a Topping- serve it over plain Greek yogurt (for a healthier snack- you may need to add a little extra honey), serve over vanilla ice cream or pancakes!
fruit salad over Greek yogurt in a glass dessert dish, with a spoon (on faux wooden surface)

🥘Main Dishes to accompany fruit salad

This makes a great brunch or breakfast fruit salad and pairs well with:

  • Award-Winning Maple Sausage Brunch Bites
  • French Toast Sandwich (with Raspberry Cream)
  • Healthy Mediterranean Breakfast Burritos
  • Sheet Pan Pumpkin Pie Pancakes
  • Butter Tart Waffles
  • Ukrainian Breakfast Hash
  • Healthy Eggs Benedict (shown)
fruit salad in a cup, on a white plate, with healthy eggs benedict

🍽Equipment

To make this Classic Fruit Salad, you will need a large cutting board (affiliate link), a good chefs knife (affiliate link) and I recommend a small paring knife (affiliate link) for peeling. You'll also want a set of salad serving spoons (affiliate link).

To make the Honey Lime Dressing, you'll want to get a juicer (affiliate link) - I like the simplicity of the manual juicers - and a zester (affiliate link)

👪 Serving size

This Old-fashioned Fruit salad serves 10 (1 cup servings). But you can half, double or triple the recipe by simply clicking on the blue serving number and selecting the number of servings you'd like. The ingredient quantities will automatically adjust. I like to serve it in small individual dessert bowls (affiliate link).

classic fruit salad in a small red bowl with white polkadots and a large white bowl of salad in the background

🌡️Storage

If you want to make this Old Fashioned Fruit salad in advance, I don't recommend making it any sooner than the night before. Add the dressing right before serving. Leftovers are good for 2 days in the fridge in an airtight container (affiliate link).

These ingredients don't stand up well to freezing.

🦺Food safety

See guidelines at USDA.gov.

Have a holiday breakfast or brunch coming up? After so much holiday indulging, this fruit salad is the perfect light accompaniment to your meal!

How do you keep fruit from turning brown in a fruit salad?

The best way to keep fruit in your fruit salad from turning brown is to coat it with an acidic fruit juice such as pineapple or lemon.

How do you make a fruit salad better?

Add extra flavor to make fruit salad even better with a delicious honey lime dressing!

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📋Old Fashioned Fruit Salad Recipe (with honey lime dressing)

This Old Fashioned Fruit Salad is easy to make and the crushed pineapple makes it unique, while the honey lime dressing elevates it to a whole other level of deliciousness! This classic fruit salad is made with strawberries, pears, grapes, kiwi, oranges, cantaloupe, with fresh or canned peached and makes a great side brunch or breakfast fruit salad!
Course Dessert, Side Dish, Snack
Cuisine American, Canadian, North American
Keyword easy, fruit, honey lime, salad
Special Diet Dairy-free, Gluten-free, Weight Watchers
Prep Time 20 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Servings 10 Servings
Calories 176kcal
Author Terri Gilson
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Ingredients

  • 1 whole cantaloupe *chopped
  • 454 g strawberries * about 1 lb
  • 3 mandarin oranges *separated into segments
  • 540 ml container peaches (no sugar added) * drained (save liquid to add to juice)
  • 4 kiwis *chopped
  • 2 whole pears *peeled, cored and chopped
  • 1.5 cups grapes, whole *about ⅓ bag
  • 398 ml - can of crushed pineapple * small can - do not drain liquid

Honey Lime Dressing:

  • ¼ cup liquid honey
  • ¾ tablespoon fresh lime juice * about the juice of ½ a lime
  • ¾ teaspoon lime zest * about the zest of ½ a lime
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Instructions

  • Slice cantaloupe in half, remove seeds, skin and and cut cantaloupe into cubes.
  • Hull and slice strawberries. Peel oranges and separate into segments
  • Drain peaches and set aside juice (for another use- see NOTES)
  • Chop peaches.
  • Remove skin from kiwis and chop.
  • Remove core from pear, peel skin and chop.
    collage of 6 photos showing how to make classic fruit salad
  • Add all chopped fruit to a large bowl, as well grapes. Then add the canned crushed pineapple (and liquid) and mix together.

Honey Lime Dressing

  • Juice ½ a lime
  • Mix honey with lime juice and lime zest.
    whisk mixing lime juice, honey and lime zest in white bowl
  • Pour over salad and mix.
  • Serve immediately

Notes

🎥 Video
How to Hull Strawberries video
How to peel a kiwi with a spoon
🍽Equipment
To make this Classic Fruit Salad, you will need a large cutting board (affiliate link), a good chefs knife (affiliate link) and I recommend a small paring knife (affiliate link) for peeling. You'll also want a set of salad serving spoons (affiliate link).
🌡️Storage
If you want to make this Old Fashioned Fruit salad in advance, I don't recommend making it any sooner than the night before. Add the dressing right before serving. Leftover are good for 2 days in the fridge in a sealed container (affiliate link).
💭 Top Tip
Don't throw away your peach juice- add it to the juice in your fridge (it goes great with orange juice!) This is what my Mom always did; she hates to waste food 🙂
drained peach juice in dole peach container on black cutting board
My Amazon Recommendations (affiliate links)

Nutrition Facts
📋Old Fashioned Fruit Salad Recipe (with honey lime dressing)
Amount Per Serving (1 cup)
Calories 176 Calories from Fat 9
% Daily Value*
Fat 1g2%
Saturated Fat 1g6%
Polyunsaturated Fat 1g
Monounsaturated Fat 1g
Sodium 12mg1%
Potassium 617mg18%
Carbohydrates 45g15%
Fiber 6g25%
Sugar 37g41%
Protein 2g4%
Vitamin A 2304IU46%
Vitamin C 98mg119%
Calcium 50mg5%
Iron 1mg6%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Nutrition

Serving: 1cup | Calories: 176kcal | Carbohydrates: 45g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 12mg | Potassium: 617mg | Fiber: 6g | Sugar: 37g | Vitamin A: 2304IU | Vitamin C: 98mg | Calcium: 50mg | Iron: 1mg
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