Dragon Fruit Salad Recipe

It’s Friday which means a lovely recipe post from each of my Foodie friends in the #FridayRecipeClub. As usual this week we had a prompt which we were to use to create a recipe. This week’s prompt was salad.

Since I’ve been eating cleaner and following a Paleo diet, I’ve been making loads of salads but I felt like coming up with something more dessert-like because I’ve been craving sweets. My mind drifted to some of the lovely fruit salads we’ve been having and I knew which one I’d choose immediately.

Almost exactly 1 year ago I bought my very first dragon fruit and experimented. Fact is that I chose it because it looked so beautiful that I had to know what it tasted like.

After many trials I came up with a Dragon Fruit Smoothie recipe which is super delicious, if I do say so myself..

Since then we’ve enjoyed Dragon Fruit many times and today I’m sharing a simple recipe with you all which our family enjoys.

This salad makes a delicious dessert which is jammed with good-for-you stuff which you can read all about in my post from a year ago.

Dragon Fruit Salad

(serves 4)

INGREDIENTS

• 2 dragon fruit
• 1 cup melon (balled or cubed)
• 1 cup pineapple
• 1/4 cup raspberries
• 1/4 cup pineapple juice
• 4 mint leaves (chopped finely)

PREPARATION

Dragon fruit is so aesthetically pleasing that we really should use the skin as a cup for our salad don’t you think?

Begin by cutting the dragon fruit in half and loosen the meat from the skin by running a spoon around the edges. You can continue doing this and actually scoop the meat out all in one or use a melon baller to scoop out the meat in pretty balls.

If you removed the dragon fruit meat out in one piece, either ball it now or cut into squares.

If you are using the skin as a cup for your dragon fruit salad, cut off the long green shoots so that the top is trimmed and easy to hold. Also take a moment to trim the greens off of the bottom of the skin so that the fruit sits upright and doesn’t tip over as you fill it.

Place the melon, dragon fruit balls, pineapple, raspberries, mint and pineapple juice into a bowl and toss until all of the fruit is well coated. You can omit the juice if you’d like and simply serve without the dressing, but dragon fruit tends to be a bit bland and the other fruits and juices lend to it this way.

Now simply layer the fruit into the dragon fruit skin and garnish with mint if you’d like. Place in the fridge for 20 minutes to chill and enjoy!

To see my fellow #FridayRecipeClub salad recipes just click any link below.

Avocado, Tomato, Kale & Onion Salad from A Pretty Life In The Suburbs

Celery Apple Salad from Mommy Moment

BLT Pasta Salad from My Organized Chaos

Watermelon and Feta Salad from Simply Stacie

Classic Tuna Pasta Salad from Family Food and Travel

Kale & Brussel Sprout Salad from Frugal Mom Eh

Taco Salad in a Bag from My 3 Little Kittens