Salad with fruits and yogurt - an easy and simple recipe for the New Year
Do you want to please your loved ones with a light and delicious dessert? Then make this fruit salad.
Ingredients for 4 servings:
- Banana – 1 pc.,
- Conference pear (you can take any other) - 1 pc.,
- Kiwi – 1 pc.,
- Mandarin – 1 pc.,
- Grapes - a small brush or 12-15 berries,
- Walnuts - a handful,
- Yogurt – 1 pc.,
- Raspberries or any other berries you have - a few for decoration.
How to do
First of all, wash all the fruits and grapes under running water and wipe with a paper towel to remove moisture from them. We peel them, including the pear. Of course, you can leave the peel on it, but then you will feel it, which will not be very pleasant. You can replace the pear with an apple, or add another apple.
Kiwi can be cleaned as follows. Cut the fruit crosswise into 2 parts, and then, sticking a teaspoon under the peel, remove the pulp with a rotating motion. It will turn out quickly and beautifully.
Cut the peeled fruits into small pieces. There is no need to chop finely, otherwise the dessert with yogurt will look like an ugly mess. Place the chopped fruits in a separate salad bowl. We also add grapes there. If the grapes are very large, they are cut in half. Chop the walnuts and add them to the rest of the ingredients.
Mix all ingredients carefully.
And now we form the salad to serve on the festive table. To do this, take transparent glasses, glasses, bowls or small salad bowls. This will make the dessert look more impressive on the table.
Fill the glass with chopped fruits and nuts up to half the volume. Then pour yogurt over them, 1 teaspoon will be enough. Again add the chopped ingredients to the top of the glass. Pour 1-2 tsp on top. yogurt. Decorate with raspberries on top. That's it, our dessert is ready, it can be served.
It is advisable to assemble fruit salad with yogurt immediately before serving. If this is not possible, then put the finished dessert in the refrigerator.
What to dress with: yogurt and other dressing options
The basis of dietary sauces for fruit salads is liquid: various types of juices, milk, fermented milk drinks. As a thickener, you can use crushed herbs (mint, lemon balm, basil, etc.), nuts, crushed ginger root. You can prepare the dressing using a blender to achieve a light and uniform texture. Popular options:
- Yogurt or kefir. A classic version of the sauce that can be used regardless of the specific ingredients in the composition. For a dietary option, Greek yogurt is best - without sweeteners or other additives. It is also permissible to use options with pieces of fruit, berries or cereals, if they do not contain additional sugar in the composition. It is better to choose kefir as fresh as possible - it does not contain the characteristic sourness.
- Milk. This drink will be a great addition to a salad of fresh fruits and berries. For a dietary dish, you should choose milk with a low fat content - from 1 to 2.5%.
- Sour cream. Suitable for lovers of thick dressings; sour cream sauce goes well with fruit. However, it is worth paying attention to the fat content - for a low-calorie dish you will need the most low-fat option.
- Juice with spices. A mixture of juice with cinnamon, star anise, ginger powder or cloves diversifies the usual taste of fruit. If you need to thicken the dressing, add a little starch.
- Smoothie. A natural smoothie made from similar ingredients can be an excellent addition to the salad. Chopped fruits with a thickener will decorate the dish and make its taste more rich.
When preparing the sauce and dressing the salad, you need to take into account the juiciness of the fruits themselves. The fruits release a lot of natural juice, so you need to add a minimum of dressing immediately before serving. An infused fruit salad will be more watery and will lose some of its beneficial characteristics.
What fruits can be combined in a fruit salad?
What fruits and berries can be combined in one salad?
- To sweet fruits - grapes, dates, persimmons, you can add several sour or sweet berries. This rule does not apply to bananas; you can add fruits of a similar consistency to them.
- Strawberries, raspberries, currants and plums are semi-acidic fruits. They will go well with nectarines, apricots, and watermelons. It is only important to choose both of them of the same maturity and consistency.
- Fruits such as all citrus fruits, gooseberries, kiwi and pomegranate are sour fruits. They go well together. You can add semi-sweet berries or sweet fruits to them. A good combination would be tangerines with raspberries or strawberries, and grapefruits with peach.
Apple-Plum Salad
Apple-Plum Salad.
Compound:
- two apples,
- two or three large plums,
- raisins – 1 tbsp. spoon,
- honey - 1 tbsp. spoon,
- dessert wine – 3 tbsp. spoons,
- lemon juice – 1 teaspoon,
- a pinch of cinnamon and whipped cream.
Preparation:
- Remove the seeds from the apples and plums, cut them into thin slices, and top the apples with lemon juice.
- Now you can prepare the sauce: mix wine with honey, add a pinch of cinnamon and bring to a boil over heat, add raisins to the mixture, bring to a boil again, remove from heat and cool.
- Pour this sauce over the fruit and top it beautifully with whipped cream.
Which yogurt is best for fruit salad?
Even if you combine fruits and berries perfectly, your dessert will hardly be tasty without the appropriate dressing. Dressings can include yogurt, melted chocolate, whipped cream, buttercream, condensed milk. For adults, you can season the salad with syrup with the addition of liqueur or cognac.
But since today we are talking about a dessert with yogurt, it is important to know which yogurt is best for dressing. Yogurt is the most common dessert dressing. You can make yogurt yourself at home, or buy in the store, for example, natural Activia or classic Danone. When purchasing, read the ingredients carefully and pay attention to the expiration date. This is important, since this salad is often prepared for children.
Dressing with different additives with the same ingredients can taste completely different. If you want to change the flavor of your yogurt, here are a few options.
- Add a pinch of vanillin to the yogurt, and the taste of the dressing will become more aromatic.
- Or add a spoonful of natural honey to the yogurt and stir.
- Mix yogurt with a spoonful of jam; not only the taste will change, but the color of the dressing will change.
Final advice from nutritionists
Serve the fruit salad immediately after preparation. Without yogurt, sour cream and other dressing, the salad will sit for a maximum of an hour, then the juice will begin to stand out, the pieces of fruit will look wilted, and the dish will lose its taste, aroma and appearance. The dressed salad is served immediately. The salad cannot be stored.
Some housewives serve the salad and dressing separately, then guests dress the salad themselves or refuse the sauce altogether.
For those on a diet, a salad made from low-calorie fruits is suitable. You don’t need to season your diet salad with anything other than lemon juice.
Irina Polyanitsa My name is Irina, I am the owner and admin of the site, as well as the author of most of the recipes and articles. I love to cook simple and healthy delicacies. Certified gym instructor, personal trainer. She completed a course on nutrition and health at Stanford University, Stanford Introduction to Food and Health, as well as a course at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) Nutrition and Lifestyle in Pregnancy (about nutrition and lifestyle during pregnancy).
Recipe for a delicious salad with fruits and yogurt for children
New Year is a special holiday for children. The kids are looking forward to this New Year, so I want to please them with something especially tasty. And a fruit dessert will definitely please them. Prepare them a delicious and nutritious salad. To prepare it you will need:
- Apples – 3 pcs.,
- Bananas – 2 pcs.,
- Kiwi – 2 pcs.,
- Mandarin – 2 pcs.,
- Pomegranate seeds and pine nuts for decoration.
How to cook
Rinse all fruits thoroughly under running water and dry with a paper towel.
Peel apples, bananas, tangerines and kiwis.
Cut the fruit into pieces no larger than 1-1.5 cm. Place in a bowl, top with yogurt,
and then transfer to a bowl or small plate. Top with pomegranate seeds and pine nuts.
If you don't have pomegranate or pine nuts, sprinkle grated chocolate on top of the salad.
Apple salad with cabbage
Apple salad with cabbage.
Compound:
- half a kilogram of cabbage,
- one carrot and an apple,
- 50 gr. dried apricots, prunes, raisins,
- mayonnaise,
- 1/4 lemon
- salt and sugar to taste.
Preparation:
- Dried fruits are soaked for half an hour, during which time the cabbage is chopped and the carrots are grated on a coarse grater.
- Squeeze lemon juice into carrots and cabbage, add a teaspoon of salt and a tablespoon of sugar, you can add more or less at your discretion. Mix everything thoroughly so that some of the juice leaves the salad.
- Add dried fruits cut into pieces. Then add the chopped and peeled apple to the salad, mix everything and season with mayonnaise.
- The salad will turn out even better if you put it in the refrigerator for an hour.
How to beautifully decorate a fruit salad
Agree that a beautifully decorated dessert will not only be healthy, but will also cause aesthetic pleasure. The dessert is best served in a transparent container so that all the colors of the fruit are visible. This will make you want to try the salad even more quickly.
Dear readers, I congratulate you on the upcoming New Year, I wish you health, success in all your endeavors, prosperity and good mood at the New Year's table! Make an incomparably delicious fruit salad with yogurt for dessert; it will be a good end to the holiday feast. Bon appetit!
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Bon appetit!
Fitness salad
Fitness salad.
Compound:
- Apples – 150 g (1-2 pcs.),
- Bananas – 100-150 g (1 pc.),
- Lemon – 0.5 pcs. Nuts – 30 g.
- Yogurt – 100-150 g.,
- Candied fruits for decoration.
Preparation:
- We cut the apples into cubes.
- Cut bananas into cubes.
- Peel the lemon and remove membranes, cut it or disassemble it into small pieces by hand.
- Finely chop the nuts.
- Mix all salad ingredients. Add yogurt and bright candied fruits (I used cherries).
- Fitness salad is ready. Bon appetit!
