Patriotic Fruit Salad
Patriotic Fruit Salad is a delicious and healthy red white and blue fruit salad that's perfect for celebrating Memorial Day and Fourth of July. This Fourth of July fruit salad will be the hit at your summer BBQs and family gatherings. Made with fresh fruit, you'll want to display this flag fruit salad at all of your summer events!
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Equipment
- 1 Cheese Board or Fruit Platter
Ingredients
- 1 quarter sliced waterlemon
- 1 pound fresh strawberries
- 2 sliced bananas
- 3 cups Blueberries
- 3 cups Pitted cherries
- 3 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
Instructions
- Wash and prep your fruit. Slice the bananas, slice up a quarter of a watermelon, slice the strawberries in halves, and pit the cherries.
- Using a star cookie cutter, cut five watermelon stars by placing the star shaped cookie cutter into each watermelon slice and removing the outside of the watermelon rind. This should make thick watermelon star slices. This will make the stars on our flag fruit salad.
- Now we start making our American flag with the fruit. On a fruit or cheese platter, start with the left upper side of the flag, by adding the stars first. Next, add the first row of fruit. Do this in the red, white, and blue sequence. The first row is red strawberries, next, add a row of sliced bananas for the white. This makes the cutest patriotic fruit salad platter.
- Next, add a row of blueberries for the bue. Repeat this pattern until you have formed a flag.
- Add a row of pitted cherries for the next red row and repeat this entire process until you have a cute American flag!
- Fill in the star portion of the fruit flag with blueberries and continue the rows of fruit in red, white, and blue to make your American flag.
- Squeeze fresh lemon juice over the top of the flag fruit salad to keep the fruit fresh and to keep it from browning.
Notes
🇺🇸 Frequently Asked Questions For Memorial Day Fruit Salad
What do you put on fruit salad to keep it from turning brown?- Lemon or lime juice mixed into your fruit salad works wonders to keep the fruit fresh and to keep it from turning brown. This is especially helpful if you want to make your july 4th fruit salad the night before.
- Honey for a healthy sweet treat!
- Cool whip or fresh whipped cream also adds additional sweetness
- You can add coop whip to make a fruit salad dressing
- This recipe is gluten free friendly
- You can also add dragon fruit too for a pink pop!
- Combine all the fruit in a bowl to individually serve to guests
- Fruit salad is best eaten right away, but it will keep in a glass, airtight container in the fridge for up to three days or you can freeze it and eat it in smoothies or as an ice cream topping later.
Nutrition
Serving: 1cupCalories: 78kcalCarbohydrates: 20gProtein: 1gFat: 0.4gSaturated Fat: 0.1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.1gMonounsaturated Fat: 0.1gSodium: 1mgPotassium: 313mgFiber: 3gSugar: 13gVitamin A: 60IUVitamin C: 42mgCalcium: 18mgIron: 1mg
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