Gingery Winter Fruit Salad

This simple and pretty winter fruit salad is a refreshing finish to cool-weather meals — or an offbeat, sweet appetizer. Made with pears, apples, oranges, pineapple, and dried cranberries, this fruit medley is dressed up with crystallized ginger and vegan yogurt.

This easy fruit presentation great for everyday winter meals served on its own, or for special occasions, especially Christmas.

It can be a challenge to eat enough fruit during the winter months. Even if they can’t compete with vegetables for sheer variety, fruits should have a prominent place in the seasonal fare.

To make cool-season fruits like apples, pears, oranges, and bananas more enticing, they need to be gently embellished, otherwise they’ll linger on the table like a still life. Find a few ideas, below.

Make the most of winter fruits

Presenting fresh fruit in medleys like this is one way to make it more appealing. Other ideas for revving up winter fruit include:

• Make simple parfaits by layering sliced or diced fruit with vegan yogurt and granola.
• Add fresh fruit to savory salads — orange sections as well as diced or sliced apple and pear are great in green salads.
• Arrange a platter of apples, pears, and/or bananas and drizzle with melted chocolate.

Recipe is adapted from Vegan Holiday Kitchen by Nava Atlas; photos by Susan Voisin.

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Yield: 8

Gingery Winter Fruit Salad

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This simple and pretty winter fruit salad is a refreshing finish to cool-weather meals.

Prep Time 15 minutes

Total Time 15 minutes

Ingredients

• 2 pears, any variety (or two different types, including Asian pears) cored, seeded and diced
• 2 Granny Smith apples, cored, seeded, and diced
• 2 small clementine, peeled and sectioned
• 20-ounce can unsweetened pineapple rings, drained
• 1/2 cup dried cranberries
• 1/4 cup sliced crystallized ginger, or more or less to taste
• Two 6-ounce containers nondairy yogurt (see Note)
• Ground cinnamon or freshly grated nutmeg

Instructions

1. Combine all the ingredients except the yogurt and cinnamon in a serving bowl and mix together. 
2. Serve in small dessert cups, preferably glass. Top serving with a dollop of yogurt and a sprinkling of cinnamon or nutmeg.

Notes

Unless you make your own yogurt, use coconut yogurt or one of the newer nondairy milk yogurts such as cashew or almond. 

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