Fresh Fruit Salad with a Honey & Poppy Seed Dressing on a Bibb Lettuce Bed
Looking for a simple, delicious and kid-friendly fruit salad for a spring Holiday, such as Easter? Here is one of our favorites. It always gets ohhs and ahhs when presented at the table. Kids may pick out their favorites from the ingredients, but at least that’s something other than just a roll for Easter dinner!
Fresh Fruit Salad with a Honey & Poppy Seed Dressing on a Bibb Lettuce Bed
If you’re looking for a salad everyone will love for Easter, look no further. This is a simple, healthy and delicious fruit salad with a fantastic honey dressing; a combination worthy of resting upon its very own bed of lettuce. These will look elegant on salad plates at your Easter tablescape. Inspired by Food Network. Serves 4.
Ingredients
Ingredients:
- 1 apple cored and diced
- 1 banana sliced
- 2 mandarins peeled, segments separated
- 1/3 cup halved red grapes
- Juice from one lemon divided
- 1/3 cup honey such as orange blossom honey from Honey Hole Honey Co., available at Sigona’s
- 1/4 cup Sigona’s Fresh Press extra virgin olive oil Mix it up! Use Sigona’s Meyer-Lemon Fusion Oil or Sigona’s Blood Orange Fusion Oil for more flavor!
- 1/4 cup orange juice
- 2 tsp. poppy seeds
- 1/2 tsp. Dijon mustard
- Salt to taste
- 4 leaves from a head of Bibb lettuce separated, such as Pescadero-grown Suncrest™
- 1/2 to 1 avocado peeled and cut lengthwise into about 8 or 12 slices
- About 1/3 cup walnuts
Instructions
- In a medium bowl, toss together the apple, banana, mandarins and grapes with all but 1 teaspoon of lemon juice. Set aside.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the honey, oil, orange juice, the remaining one teaspoon lemon juice, poppy seeds, Dijon and salt, to taste.
- Place one lettuce leaf on each of four salad plates. Divide the fruit mixture evenly between the four lettuce cups. Just before serving, fan out 2 to 3 slices of avocado on each of the salads and top with a few walnuts. Drizzle the salads with the dressing, serve any remaining on the side.
Notes
Sigona’s Fresh Press Extra Virgin Olive Oils and infused balsamics are available for sale in our markets and online at www.sigonas.com
Fresh Press Extra Virgin Olive Oil & Aged Infused Balsamics
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