Tropical Fruit Salad with Honey Lime Dressing

This Tropical Fruit Salad with Honey Lime Dressing is sure to wow friends and family! Featuring a variety of tropical fruit tossed with a honey lime dressing, there’s a bright burst of flavor in every bite! This easy salad recipe is bound to become a family favorite!

Love easy fruit recipes? Try my Berry Salad and Mini Strawberry Pies!

Tropical Fruit salad

We are obsessed with fruit salads – especially during the hot summer months. I mean, really, you’ve got love a recipe that does triple duty as side dish, salad, and dessert.

This Tropical Fruit Salad is seriously impressive and features a variety of stunning tropical fruit that will have friends and family oohing and aahing over this easy to make dish.

A special treat for sure and one that we will be enjoying many more times this summer. I sure hope you give it a try!

Watching the movie and listening to the book got me all inspired in the kitchen, hence this jungle-themed Tropical Fruit Salad with Honey Lime Dressing that I’m sharing with you today. I had to get the honey in there because of Baloo.

More Summer Salads

Obsessed with fresh summer salads? Check out these for your next pool day!

1. Mojito Fruit Salad
2. Balsamic Watermelon Salad
3. The BEST Ambrosia Salad
4. Pineapple Cucumber Salad
5. Easy Grape Salad

Tropical Fruit Salad Ingredients

This salad is a showstopper. Papayas, mangoes, kiwis, pineapple, strawberries, and star fruit make this summer fruit salad impossible to resist. Let’s take a look at what you’ll need:

For the fruit:

• papaya – you want ripe but firm papayas so they don’t disintegrate in the salad.
• mango – look for ripe but firm mangoes.
• kiwis – love that beautiful pop of green in this salad.
• strawberries – for sweetness and color.
• pineapple – fresh is best but you can use canned if you need to.
• shredded coconut – rounds out the tropical flavors and gives one more texture to enhance the flavor and taste of this salad.
• star fruit – sliced so each piece is a star shape

For the fruit salad dressing:

Just 3 ingredients in this simple dressing!

• honey – agave nectar can be substituted if desired.
• fresh lime juice – nothing beats fresh but bottled will work in a pinch.
• fresh lime zest – really brightens up the dressing and fruit salad.

How To Make Tropical Fruit Salad

This easy fruit salad recipe is so quick to make! Let’s take a look at how to make it:

1. Prep the fruit. Rinse, chop, peel, whatever is needed.
2. Add fruit to a large serving bowl. In a large mixing bowl, combine all of the prepped fruit and then set to the side.
3. Prepare dressing. In a second smaller mixing bowl, whisk the honey, lime juice and zest together.
4. Combine. Pour dressing over the fruit and toss to incorporate.
5. Chill. Keep refrigerated until ready to serve.

Variations To Try

While I opted for primarily tropical fruits for this homemade fruit salad, there are so many delicoius options out there. Here are some more fruits to consider:

• red or green grapes
• raspberries
• blueberries
• peaches
• nectarines
• plums
• pluots
• cherries
• apricots
• mandarin oranges
• blackberries
• cantaloupe
• watermelon

More Fruit Salad Recipes

1. Fruit Salad
2. Mojito Fruit Salad
3. The BEST Ambrosia Salad
4. Grape Salad
5. Pineapple Cucumber Salad

How To Make Tropical Fruit Salad

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Tropical Fruit Salad

This Tropical Fruit Salad with Honey Lime Dressing is going to be the star of the show! Featuring a variety of tropical fruit and tossed with a honey lime dressing, there’s a bright burst of flavors in every bite! This easy salad recipe is bound to become a family favorite!

Course Side Dish

Cuisine American

Keyword tropical fruit salad

Prep Time 15 minutes minutes

Total Time 15 minutes minutes

Servings 12 servings

Calories 125kcal

Author Trish – Mom On Timeout

Ingredients

• 1 papaya peeled, seeded, diced
• 1 mango peeled, diced
• 4 kiwis peeled, diced
• 1 pint strawberries hulled, sliced
• 1 small pineapple diced
• ⅓ cup shredded coconut
• 1 star fruit sliced

Dressing

• ¼ cup honey
• 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
• 1 tablespoon lime zest

Instructions

• Combine fruit in a large bowl.
• Stir honey, lime juice and zest together in a small bowl.
• Drizzle dressing over the top of the fresh fruit.
• Gently toss to combine.
• Keep refrigerated until ready to serve.

Nutrition

Calories: 125kcal | Carbohydrates: 30g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 11mg | Potassium: 329mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 23g | Vitamin A: 469IU | Vitamin C: 111mg | Calcium: 33mg | Iron: 1mg

Originally published May 2, 2016.