Fresh Fruit Pomegranate Salad

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Around the holidays when everyone is eating big heavy meals I like to serve a refreshing fresh fruit salad at our family gatherings. Fruit salads are one of the easiest salads you can make. You don’t really need a recipe because you can make a delicious fruit salad with whatever fruit is in season or that you have on hand. Today I am sharing a Fresh Fruit Pomegranate Salad that includes some fruit varieties that are readily available during the winter months, like pomegranates. I love to add pomegranates to my fruit salads when they are available. They add a fun crunch to any fruit salad.

This weeks Progressive Dinner is all about salad recipes. As I told you last week myself and 5 other food bloggers are celebrating the 2014 Holiday Menu Planning with another fun Progressive Dinner roundup of recipes. Last week I shared an Easy Slow Roasted Pot Roast recipe with you for our Main Course Progressive Dinner roundup of recipes.

This week we are all sharing a salad recipe for our Salad Course Progressive Dinner roundup of recipes.

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Check out this and the other salad recipes below.

Busy-at-Home : Pear Pistachio and Pomegranate Salad with Lemon Balsamic Vinaigrette

Adventures in All Things Food: Hearty Holiday Chopped Salad

The Gunny Sack: Strawberry Pecan Pretzel Salad

Daily Dish Recipes: Holiday Avocado, Pomegranate and Spinach Salad

Flour on My Face: Fresh Fruit Pomegranate Salad

Will Cook for Smiles: Pomegranate Goat Cheese Salad

How to make Fresh Fruit Pomegranate Salad

INGREDIENTS

1 ruby red grapefruit, sectioned and skin removed
1 pomegranate, ariels removed and rinsed.
3 navel oranges, sectioned and skin removed
1 cup seedless grapes, cut in half
½ pint of fresh blueberries
½ cup sugar
½ pink fresh raspberries
2 apples, peeled and cubed
2 pears, peeled and cubed
2 bananas, sliced
1 lemon
½ small watermelon for serving (optional)

DIRECTIONS

Place the first six ingredients into a bowl and refrigerate at least 4 hours before serving (overnight is best).
Right before serving peel and cut the apples, pears, and bananas into a small bowl and squeeze the juice of the lemon over the fruit. Mix well so the lemon juice covers all sides of the fruit. This is to prevent browning.
Add the fruit and lemon juice to the bowl of fruit that has been refrigerated. Gently mix the fruit.
If using a watermelon for serving scoop out the watermelon flesh from the center of one half reserving the watermelon flesh for another use. Place the fruit salad into the hollowed out watermelon shell to serve.
Arrange raspberries over the top of the fruit salad.
Serve the fruit salad chilled.

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