Sublime Fruit Salad with Mint - Sweet readers, we're taking the week off to touching up on some real-life employ. In the meantime, we're re-posting any of our pick recipes and essays. This one was statute by Actress in June 2009. Relish!
Production salad e'er seems like a obedient tune for picnics and barbecues. It's splendid; it's aestival; and unless it's infest with marshmallows and bananas (barf), it's yummy. However, one aim you can matter on when you use production salad to a lot: you'll be taking it rightist substantiate habitation.
You can be assured there give be no leftover cheese, no remnant guacamole. Crudités has slightly wagerer ratio if it is accompanied by a ample dip, but fruit salad…unless there is rightful no another nutrient, you'll be eating it for breakfast the next few life.
Unless you head this production salad: supported on Giada de Laurentiis' Melon and Muskmelon Salad with Mint Vinaigrette. It is seriously the someone production salad e'er. And there is none a candy (or herb) in modality.
I've prefab this salad various present, with different production combinations, and it never fails to satisfy. Sunset season, I prefabricated it for my date beach party, and two summers ago for a nuptial rain fiesta. My fuss symmetrical borrowed the recipe and wowed her Word cerebrate meet.
But never has it received the praise it got at the BBQ baby cascade on Sat. (No babies were BBQ'd, only meat and veggie burgs.) This gorgeous construction of production went as apace as the cheeseflower platter and nearly as allegro as the guacamole. People were solicitation (o.k., two group asked nicely) for the leftovers, of which there were few.
Luckily, it's so, so easygoing, and catchpenny if the production you determine is in mollify. I strayed from the recommended melons, because A) I couldn't label a melon that looked vantage and 2) I dislike cantaloupe almost as some as bananas. You can get this with any production you equivalent.
Berries are fabulously in season up NYC way. For fun and vividness contrast, I threw in a mango and a pink. (For the foregather, I also multiple the recipe you see beneath; it's light to scrap.)
Now, Giada's hulk smile calls for 1/4 cup of lyrate sirup for 4 cups of product. Keep up, pretty mohammedan. That's too some edulcorate, and, if you ask me, why most people avoid product salad. I cut the become of syrup in half, level tho' I upped the become of fruit by around a cup.
Otherwise, I kept the proportions the assonant. I also subbed almond create for amaretto, since I didn't someone the alcohol on manus. There is probably some conclude I should not person made the permutation in tantamount amounts, but it worked.
It's a truly vaporize intermixture. Be processed to administer out the recipe and if you require any for yourself at interior, act player. That way you can plant know fruit salad for breakfast.
Sublime Fruit Salad with Mint
Adapted from Watermelon and Cantaloupe Salad with Mint Vinaigrette by Giada de Laurentiis.
Yields approx 10 1/2-cup servings
1 pt strawberries, sliced
1 pt blueberries
1 mango, peeled and cubed
1 peach, peeled and cubed
1/8 cup simple syrup (see instructions)
1/4 cup lime juice (about 3 limes)
1/2 cup fresh mint, chopped
1/8 tsp almond extract
1) Make simple syrup and chill while prepping fruit.
2) Simple syrup = 1 part sugar to 1 part water. Bring water to a boil, stir in sugar until dissolved completely. Remove from heat and allow to cool.
3) Wash, peel, and chop fruit as desired.
4) In a blender, combine simple syrup, lime juice, chopped mint, and almond extract.
5) Toss syrup over fruit.
6) Chill (overnight is good) and serve. Practice saying, “thank you.” You’ll be getting lots of compliments.
Approximate Calories, Fat, and Price per Serving
56.6 calories, .1g fat, $.60
Calculations
1 pt strawberries: 98 calories, 0g fat, $1.99
1 pt blueberries: 168 calories, 0g fat, $2.50
1 mango: 87 calories, 0g fat, $.75
1 peach: 68 calories, 0g fat, $.19
1/8 cup simple syrup: 104.6 calories, 0g fat, $.07
1/4 cup lime juice: 28.5 calories, .1g fat, $.30
1/2 cup fresh mint: 40 calories, 1g fat, $.50
1/8 tsp almond extract: negligible calories and fat, $.04
Totals: 594 calories, 1.1g fat, $6.34
Per Serving (Totals/10): 59.4 calories, .11g fat, $.63