Easy Salad with Grapefruit Recipe
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This salad with grapefruit isn’t your average fruit salad. With apples, bananas, berries, and nuts tossed in honey peanut butter, it’s a crave-worthy dessert!
A fruit salad this colorful and delicious doesn’t come around every day.
With grapefruit in the spotlight and honey peanut butter tying it all together, this salad is a texture-loaded delight.
Who knew a few ingredients could go such a long way?
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Why You’ll Love This Salad with Grapefruit Recipe
- This salad with grapefruit and honey peanut butter makes a satisfying dessert minus the guilt!
- This grapefruit salad can easily welcome other seasonal fruits, nuts, and seeds.
- This fresh fruit salad is low-effort and perfect for last-minute prep.
Ingredients And Substitutions
Ruby Red grapefruit – Look for one that’s heavy and firm for its size.
Banana and green apple – Slice them just before making the salad with grapefruit to avoid browning. However, if you prefer to prepare the ingredients ahead of time, toss the sliced banana and apple with lemon juice.
Blueberries – Blueberries add a gorgeous color contrast to this grapefruit salad. Rinse and pat them dry before use!
Almonds – Crushed pistachios or even poppy seeds will also lend a satisfying crunch to this sweet and juicy fresh fruit salad.
Peanut butter and vegan honey – Honey peanut butter makes a delicious dressing for this grapefruit salad! You can also mix them, then heat the mixture in the microwave until drippy for easier mixing with the ingredients. Need a vegan honey alternative? Try maple syrup or agave nectar!
Tips For Making This Recipe
Make It in Advance
You can toss this grapefruit salad together ahead of time. Cover and chill for an hour to allow the flavors to combine.
Add or Substitute Fruits
Customize your fruit salad with grapefruit! Some delicious options are diced mango, kiwi, strawberries, pomegranate seeds, and pineapple.
Serve with Vanilla Grapefruit Syrup
Instead of honey, you can make a quick syrup with granulated sugar, water, vanilla bean, fresh grapefruit juice, and grapefruit zest for this salad with grapefruit! Combine the ingredients in a saucepan. Dissolve the sugar over medium heat, then bring to a boil. Simmer on low until the mixture thickens.
Grapefruit Salad Recipe FAQs
How to prepare grapefruit for salad?
Cut off the top and bottom of the grapefruit. Following the grapefruit’s natural curve, slice off its skin and pith. Then, cut along the membranes to free each segment.
Can you put grapefruit in a salad?
Of course! Besides fruit salads, you can even make a refreshing, savory one with grapefruits, avocados, fresh mixed greens, pistachios, sea salt flakes, and olive oil.
What pairs well with grapefruit?
You can make a bunch of sweet and savory salads with grapefruit! It’ll pair perfectly with avocado, blood oranges, berries, cherries, arugula, spinach, fennel, cucumber, red onion, walnuts, feta cheese, and goat cheese.
What can I make with a bunch of grapefruit?
Got extra grapefruit? Turn it into a grapefruit vodka cocktail or make a quick parfait with our tapioca yogurt. Grapefruit also makes a fantastic citrus vinaigrette and relish.
How to store leftover grapefruit salad?
To avoid mushy fruits, this vegan salad with grapefruit is best enjoyed the day it’s made. But if you have leftovers, store them in an airtight container in the fridge for up to a day and give the salad a quick stir before serving.
More Delicious Salad Side Dishes
- Tropical Fruit Salad
- Jerusalem Salad
- Vegan Potato Salad
- Copycat Cafe Rio Veggie Salad
- Vegan Cobb Salad
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Salad with Grapefruit
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 banana, sliced
- 1 grapefruit, sliced
- 1 green apple, sliced
- 1/2 cup blueberries
- 1/4 cup almonds plus extra for garnish
- 2 tbsp peanut butter
- 1 tbsp vegan honey
Instructions
- Combine the sliced banana, grapefruit, and apple in a bowl.
- Stir in your peanut butter and honey.
- Mix in blueberries and almonds.
- Top the grapefruit salad with more sliced almonds before serving. Enjoy!
Notes
- You can toss this grapefruit salad together ahead of time. Cover and chill for an hour to allow the flavors to combine.
- Customize your fruit salad with grapefruit! Some delicious options are diced mango, kiwi, strawberries, pomegranate seeds, and pineapple.
- Instead of honey, you can make a quick syrup with granulated sugar, water, vanilla bean, fresh grapefruit juice, and grapefruit zest for this salad with grapefruit! Combine the ingredients in a saucepan. Dissolve the sugar over medium heat, then bring to a boil. Simmer on low until the mixture thickens.
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