WINTER FRUIT SALAD

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Take advantage of citrus season with this delicious Winter Fruit Salad! Loaded with all your favorite winter citrus fruits, plus bananas, kiwi, and pomegranate seeds, this salad is bright and sweet and guaranteed to help you beat the winter blues. And when you toss it in a sweet orange poppy seed simple syrup, the end result is a fruit salad you want to eat again and again, all winter long. Perfect for breakfast, lunch, or any meal in between, this salad is as healthy as it is delicious….and so pretty, too! Which makes it the ideal side dish for any special occasion. No matter how you slice it, this Winter Fruit Salad is guaranteed to become new favorite and sure to be the star of the show!

This Winter Fruit Salad would make a lovely addition to a winter brunch, ladies night, family dinner, birthday party, baby shower, or any meal in between. And even though it doesn't technically need the orange poppy seed simple syrup? It's a seriously delicious addition.

Ingredients

Fruit Salad

• 3 grapefruit peeled and segmented
• 3 blood oranges peeled and segmented
• 4 mandarin oranges peeled and segmented
• 2 navel oranges peeled and segmented
• 4 kiwi fruit peeled and sliced
• 3 bananas sliced
• 1/2 pomegranate seeds

Orange Poppy Seed Simple Syrup

• 1/4 cup water
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 navel orange juiced
• 1 tsp. poppy seeds

Instructions

1. In a large serving bowl, combine fruit and toss gently.
2. Prepare simple syrup by combining water, sugar, and juice of one orange. Bring to a boil; remove from heat.
3. Stir in poppy seeds and cool completely.
4. Pour simple syrup over fruit.

Recipe Source:lemontreedwelling.com