3 Great Citrus Fruit Salads

When you want to serve a light dessert or a refreshing first course, citrus fruit salads are the perfect choice. Offering a citrus fruit salad as a dessert, especially combined with a tasty sour cream dipping sauce, gives guests who cannot have a lot of sweets or are watching their diet a satisfying dessert option. At picnics, barbecues and other family oriented celebrations having a citrus fruit salad is great for small children because they can easily eat peeled or segmented citrus fruits without help. Citrus fruits also are perfect for adding color to a meal and livening up traditional salads. Next time you want to throw together a quick, delicious, healthy salad, mix up one of these citrus fruit salads:

Grapefruit salad

Peel and cube several white, red or pink grapefruits to make this delicious, low calorie, super healthy salad. Toss with a little sugar to sweeten the slightly tart taste, or mix with some balsamic vinegar to really enhance the flavor of the grapefruit. This is a perfect snack when you are a diet too, because grapefruit has been proven to help you lose weight. If the tart taste of the grapefruit is too much for you, toss in a few cubed Honeybell tangelos with the juice to sweeten the salad.

Citrus dinner salad

This is a great everyday salad that combines the health benefits of citrus fruits with the health benefits of a tasty green salad. Combine Romaine or Iceberg lettuce with fresh watercress and three peeled and segmented Florida oranges , two peeled and cubed grapefruits of any color. Add in two peeled and segmented Honeybell tangelos. Toss the whole mixture with a dressing made from olive oil, raspberry vinegar, and the juice from the Honeybell. Refrigerate for at least one half hour to make sure the flavors have time to blend.

Creamy Citrus Berry dessert salad

This lovely fruit salad is as pretty to look at it as it is tasty. Start with a few cups of vanilla flavored yogurt, or add some vanilla extract to some sour cream and sugar to make a base for the salad. Then toss in red and white seedless grapes, pineapple chunks, two peeled and cubed Honeybell Tangelos, one peeled and cubed red grapefruit and one peeled and cubed pink grapefruit. Add in a tablespoon of grated lemon zest and orange zest to really bring out the citrus flavors.

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