Easy Appetizer Recipes
Cold Appetizer Recipe with Fruit
This tasty cold appetizer recipe is a mouthwatering combination of pineapple, kiwi, grapes, and strawberries. The sauce is made with vanilla, citrus juices and peel and a little sugar. With this fruit salad recipe, you pour the sauce over the fruit and leave it for a few hours to soak in. This is one of our make ahead appetizers because you need to leave it in the refrigerator for at least two hours, for all the flavors to blend well.
If you are having a buffet, this colorful and juicy cold appetizer recipe is a great addition to the table. Fresh fruit salad is nice alongside savory dishes, including meats and savory salads. Sometimes it is nice to serve a sweet appetizer recipe. This appetizer is great for kids as well as adults. If you did want to serve it at a buffet where there won't be any children, you could alter the sauce a little, maybe adding some fruit liqueur or brandy. Do not go overboard with the alcohol though because more than a touch of it will spoil the overall flavor of this dish.
This delicious cold appetizer recipe can be modified however you like. Feel free to use any fruits. The pineapple, grapes, kiwi, and strawberries in the recipe are all soft fruits but you might want to add some harder fruits, like apple, or some different soft ones, like banana or peach. When making fruit salad recipes, it is nice to have a lot of different colors because it looks more stunning.
Fresh Fruit Salad with a Vanilla Citrus Sauce
Ingredients -
2 cups cubed fresh pineapple
2 pints fresh strawberries, hulled and quartered
4 kiwi fruit, peeled and chopped
1 cup seedless green grapes
For the Sauce:
⅓ cup lemon juice
⅔ cup orange juice
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
½ teaspoon grated orange peel
½ teaspoon grated lemon peel
⅓ brown sugar
Preparation:
Bring the lemon juice, orange juice, grated orange peel, grated lemon peel, and brown to sugar to a boil.
Let the mixture simmer for 5 minutes.
Stir in the vanilla extract, and then let the mixture cool.
Arrange the fruit in a serving bowl and pour the cooled sauce over the top.
Cover and refrigerate the fruit salad for 2 hours.
(Serves 12)
Photo Description:
This juicy mixture of fresh fruits in a citrus and vanilla sauce makes such a nice cold appetizer recipe. Easy party appetizers can include sweet dishes. If you are catering for a buffet, people might serve themselves some of this fruit salad as an appetizer by itself, alongside a meat or savory salad plate or they might take some for dessert, after they have eaten the savory hot appetizer recipes and the other cold appetizers. Fresh fruit is healthy and this is a healthy appetizer recipe as well as a very flavorful one. This cold appetizer recipe is suitable for any occasion and you can eat any leftovers for breakfast the following day, with some yogurt and granola.
