Layered Fruit Salad
This colorful salad is a real eye-catcher, and it tastes as good as it looks. Fresh fruit is always a welcome side dish with a summer meal. The addition of oranges and grapefruit gives this salad a different twist.
-Page Alexander, Baldwin City, Kansas8 ServingsPrep: 20 min. + chilling
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup orange juice
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
- 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon grated orange peel
- 1/2 teaspoon grated lemon peel
- 1 cinnamon stick (3 inches)
- 2 cups fresh or drained canned pineapple chunks
- 1 cup seedless red grapes
- 2 medium bananas, sliced
- 2 medium oranges, sectioned
- 1 medium grapefruit, sectioned
- 1 pint fresh strawberries, sliced
- 2 medium kiwifruit, peeled and sliced
Directions
- In a large saucepan, combine the juices, sugar, peels and cinnamon
- stick; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 5
- minutes. Remove from the heat; cool completely.
- Meanwhile, layer fruit in a glass serving bowl. Remove cinnamon stick
- from the sauce; pour sauce over fruit. Cover and refrigerate for
- several hours. Yield: 8 servings.
Nutrition Facts: 1 cup equals 137 calories, 1 g fat (trace saturated fat), 0 cholesterol, 5 mg sodium,