Up your side dish game with this quick and crowd-friendly recipe for The Best Fruit Salad with Honey-Lime Dressing.
That big ol’ bowl of rainbow-colored juiciness was a total accident. I actually shot the above photo with my iPhone and after sharing it on Instagram, I realized quite quickly that sometimes the simplest of recipes can be the biggest of hits.
I was inundated with requests for the recipe, and since I am never one to deny the culinarily curious, I present to you The Best Fruit Salad with Honey-Lime Dressing!
I brought this fruit salad as a super last-minute potluck addition for a friend’s brunch and, call me crazy, but it was gone before the platter of bacon!
I’ve awarded it the title of “The Best Fruit Salad” because it encompasses everything you want in this side dish staple:
- A rainbow of color
- A refreshing crunch
- A balance of sweetness and tanginess
You can serve it as is or layer it up with yogurt for the ultimate parfait. Best of all, we’re talking about a fruit salad here, not nuclear fission, so use this recipe as a basic template but feel free to swap in whatever fruit is in season to really make the most of this dish 365 days a year.
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Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups sliced strawberries or raspberries
- 1 1/2 cups diced cantaloupe
- 1 1/2 cups diced pineapple
- 1 1/2 cups diced honeydew melon
- 1 cup blueberries
- 1 cup halved grapes
- 1/2 cup pomegranate arils
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1 teaspoon fresh lime zest
- 3 Tablespoons fresh lime juice
- Fresh mint, for garnishing
Instructions
- In a large bowl, toss together the strawberries, cantaloupe, pineapple, honeydew melon, blueberries, grapes and pomegranate arils.
- In a separate small bowl, whisk together the honey, lime zest and lime juice. Add the dressing to the bowl with the fruit and toss to combine.
- Garnish with fresh mint leaves and serve immediately or store, covered securely with plastic wrap, in the fridge.
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Had it for brunch this morning. So light and fresh tasting.
I’m so happy you enjoyed the recipe, Cindy!
it was delicious and amazing thanks for the recipe
You are so welcome, Misty! I’m thrilled you enjoyed it!
I took your fruit salad to my brunch time book club with the honey and lime dressing. It is beautiful in appearance and the dressing is perfect. It was 3/4 gone by eight women. Guess they liked it!
Woohoo! I’m so thrilled you enjoyed the recipe, Glenda!
My fruit salad consisted of oranges, apples, strawberries, mangoes, and kiwi. I don’t usually sweeten my fruit salads with any kind of sugar. I like the natural blend of sweetness from the fruit. I am taking my fruit salad to work and decided I would sweeten it a little so I tried the recipe with the honey, lime juice, and lime zest. I tried a bowl of fruit before I took it to work and YUMMY! Not too sweet and blends with the natural sweetness of all of the fruits. I will definitely use this dressing on my fruit salads again. Thanks for sharing it.
You are so welcome, Dianne! I’m thrilled you enjoyed the recipe!
Delicious! Just the right amount of sweetness and tartness.
I’m so glad you enjoyed the fruit salad, Susan!
Love the fruit salad with honey lime dressing! As far as prep time, unless you are using pre-cut fruits, make sure you factor in cutting time for the melons, pineapple, strawberries and grapes…took me a couple of hours! Still, was worth it! Great salad!
I’m so thrilled you enjoyed the recipe, Melba!
I used the freshest fruits we had-lots of watermelon, berries and pineapple. The dressing is the absolute best! The lime balances sweetness of honey-its perfect! Everyone asks for recipe. I like a bit of salty with my fruits so I add just a sprinkle of feta, not much at all.
So thrilled you enjoyed the recipe! And I love your addition of feta cheese!
I made a fruit salad of strawberries, apples and peaches, then decided that I wanted a dressing for it, so started searching the web. I’ll admit I was kind of dubious about the honey. I though it might make the salad too sweet so I backed off on the amount. Because my salad contained peaches, I added a tiny splash of peach brandy to the dressing. It was soooo good! I have a party to go to on Saturday and am thinking about making this again, maybe with your suggested fruits.
Woohoo! I’m so thrilled you enjoyed the recipe for the honey-lime dressing!
I made the basic fruit/green salad with spring mix, different-colored cherry tomatoes, Maine blueberries, and seedless watermelon chunks. I needed a fruit salad dressing and found this recipe. I didn’t have a lime for the zest, so just used honey and lime juice. It was delicious!
So glad you enjoyed the recipe!
I didn’t make it yet but I will for my niece’s graduation party. I want to know if this really makes 8 servings.
Your bowl looks like it makes a lot more. She will have a lot of people with a lot of other food. Should I double it
and double the dressing? I’m sure it will be awesome.
Hi Shery – Yes, this recipe yields 8 servings so you’d have to gauge how hungry your group may be in order to determine the amount you’d need. I always err on people having big appetites :)
I also made this the first time for Easter, and everyone raved about it. I didn’t have any fresh limes, but instead used the real lime juice in a bottle and I had lemons, so used lemon zest. It was really good! Thank you for sharing!
You are so welcome, Jackie! I’m thrilled you’ve been enjoying the recipe!
So delicious! I brought this to a picnic today & it was completely gone in about 15 minutes!
Woohoo! This is what I love to hear, Susanna!
This was delicious for my spring tea party.
I’m thrilled you enjoyed it!
Add this recipe for a graduation party the first time ever. I had so much that I had to put it in a round tupper ware cake holder. Every bite was eaten. Big hit.
I’m so thrilled you enjoyed the recipe, Mary!
This is amazing – my family raved about it. It is a keeper :)
I’m so thrilled to hear this, Julie!
We just had your salad with the lime/honey dressing for Easter morning breakfast. It was a terrific hit with the whole family. I made a huge bowl of it, and every morsel was devoured and exclaimed over. Many thanks.
Love hearing this, Susie! I’m so thrilled the recipe was enjoyed by all!
Ah, April in New England when soon the buds on the trees will sprout. What do I turn to? The best fruit salad with honey-lime dressing! I’m eating it right now and it’s delicious. Thanks for this receipe. :)
You are so welcome, Skye! I’m thrilled you enjoyed it!
I never used a dressing before on a fruit salad, so I was a bit wary when someone gave me this recipe to use for a bridal shower. I love it! I just don’t want it to soak in too much, so I will put the dressing on only about a couple of hours beforehand.
I’m so glad you enjoyed the recipe, Karen!
I love that it’s lime and honey super simple and super delicious. Admittedly I made a fruit salad dressing yesterday from another website and to put it politely it wasn’t really to my taste it had alot of lemonyness a shovel of zest a bucket of juice both lemon and orange it asked for a 1/4 cup of brown sugar but it was more like a kilo of brown sugar to get it tasting half appealing. So I wasn’t that keen to pour it all over the giant bowl of fruity deliciousness i had just spent the last 2 hours cutting up without atleast having a look if this was anything else out there. Needless to say your dressing won the competition and made it to the table ☺ x
I’m so glad you enjoyed the honey-lime dressing recipe, Sami! :)
I love that it doesn’t have refined sugar in it. Even with a lot of substitutions for the fruit, it was delicious! My favorite new dressing!
I’m thrilled you enjoyed it!