Banana and Apple Fruit Salad is a refreshing and tasty combination of bananas, apples, and a variety of other diced fruits such as oranges, strawberries, and grapes. The salad is often tossed in a light, sweet, and creamy yogurt dressing.
About This Recipe
Have a bunch of bananas that are about to go bad? Ripe bananas can be a great addition to fruit salads, bringing natural sweetness and fruity goodness to the mix. This fruit salad made with apples and bananas is very simple, packed with nutrition, delicious, and perfect for parties, picnics, and barbecues.
Why You Will Love This Recipe
- Refreshing and Light: The combination of bananas, apples, and oranges creates a refreshing and light dessert.
- Customizable: The banana and apple fruit salad is versatile and can be customized to your liking. You can add other fruits such as grapes, berries, or in-season fruits to enhance the flavors or use various dressings to take your salad to the next level.
- Easy to make: This fruit salad is relatively easy to make and requires minimal ingredients and effort.
Banana and Apple Fruit Salad Ingredients
This healthy fruit salad recipe is great for barbecues, potlucks, and family gatherings. There are tons of other fruit salad recipes which are made by combining different fruits. This salad is a combination of apples, bananas, and oranges and can be easily customized with the fruits you like. I also used vanilla yogurt dressing for the drizzle.
- Apple
- Banana
- Orange
- Vanilla Greek yogurt
- Honey
- Lime juice
Instructions
- In a small bowl, stir together the vanilla Greek yogurt, honey, and lime juice until smooth. Taste the dressing and adjust the sweetness.
- Chop up the apple and orange into small pieces.
- Slice the bananas and place them in the bowl as well as the other fruits.
- Place the chopped fruits in a large bowl. Drizzle the dressing over the chopped fruits. Stir gently until combined.
Expert Tips
- Apples and bananas discolor over time, it is best to prepare this salad a few minutes before serving.
- How to keep banana and apple slices from turning brown quickly? Add a little lime juice to help preserve their freshness.
- To make the salad look more vibrant, you can use red, green, and yellow apples and not peel them.
- Instead of oranges, you can use fresh and delicious mandarin oranges.
Variations
- The good thing about salads is that you can customize them with your favorite fruits. Fresh strawberries, grapes, or pineapples are also delicious choices.
- Add some chopped walnuts for extra crunch and flavor. Add a little lime juice to help preserve the fruit’s freshness.
- You can substitute lime juice with orange juice or pineapple juice.
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Ingredients
- 2 apples, chopped (green or red apples)
- 2 large bananas, sliced
- 1 large orange
- 1 cup Greek vanilla yogurt
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 tablespoon fresh lime or lemon juice
Instructions
Step 1
In a small bowl, stir together the vanilla Greek yogurt, honey, and lime juice until smooth. Taste the dressing and adjust the sweetness.
Step 2
Chop up the apple and orange into small pieces. Slice the bananas and place them in the bowl as well as the other fruits.
Step 3
Place the chopped fruits in a large bowl. Drizzle the dressing over the chopped fruits. Stir gently until combined.
