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This Patriotic Fruit Salad is perfect for a light snack, a side dish for any meal, or just a sweet treat in the heat of the day! Featuring watermelon, blueberries, strawberries, and dragon fruit, it’s a great way to feature red, white, and blue foods this 4th of July!
Patriotic Fruit Salad
I love making foods that are red, white, and blue! This Patriotic Fruit Salad is perfect to bring to a get-together this summer, or a neat way to bring the holiday spirit to the dinner table! Either way, everyone is sure to love this simple and delicious Patriotic Fruit Salad!
Best Tips for Making This Patriotic Fruit Salad
While this recipe is very straightforward, there are a few tips I want to share for making this the best fruit salad ever!
- Make sure your fruit is ripe – You’re probably thinking, DUH! But this is something that often gets overlooked. So make sure that you are choosing strawberries and dragon fruit that are ripe and sweet. Otherwise, this salad is going to be very tart! Usually, you don’t have to worry about watermelon and blueberries as much, but the other two ingredients might be an issue.
- Chill before serving – If possible, make this fruit salad a few hours, or up to 2 days, in advance. This will allow the fruit to be fully chilled which always makes for a better experience on a hot summer day!
How to Make Red, White, and Blue Fruit Salad
This Patriotic Fruit Salad is made from watermelon, dragon fruit, strawberries, and blueberries. It doesn’t need an additional salad dressing, because the cut fruits let their own juices mix together and it tastes wonderful! Watch the video below to see how we made it!
You will also see how you cut a dragon fruit as well! If you’ve never had a dragon fruit, you will want to try one! They’re so good, and have such a neat texture! They’re essential to the white color in the fruit salad, to achieve the red, white, and blue look that makes it so festive.
We decided they taste like a mix between kiwi and cantaloupe! Either way, they’re delicious and add a nice balance to this Patriotic Fruit Salad.
My favorite part of this fruit salad is the little watermelon stars! We used this medium star cookie cutter from Amazon, which made perfect bite-size pieces!
Plus, since it’s a set, I now have a larger star for cookies and a smaller star for pie crusts!
Even More Patriotic Dishes to Try:
Round out the rest of your 4th of July table with these other America-inspired treats!
Patriotic Fruit Salad
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Ingredients
- 1 small seedless watermelon
- 1 lb strawberries
- 12 oz blueberries
- 1 dragon fruit
Instructions
- Wash and rinse your produce to begin with.
- Slice your watermelon into 1 1/2″ slices.
- Use a small star cookie cutter to make the watermelon into the shapes of stars.
- Cut the tops off your strawberries, and dice them into to fourths.
- Cut your dragonfruit in half from top to bottom.
- Use a large spoon to scoop out the fruit from the dragon fruit.
- Dice the dragon fruit up into one inch cubes.
- In a large bowl ocmbine the watermelon, diced strawberries, diced dragonfruit, and the blueberries.
- Keep covered and chilled until you’re ready to serve.
Notes
Best Tips for Making This Patriotic Fruit Salad
While this recipe is very straightforward, there are a few tips I want to share for making this the best fruit salad ever!- Make sure your fruit is ripe – You’re probably thinking, DUH! But this is something that often gets overlooked. So make sure that you are choosing strawberries and dragon fruit that are ripe and sweet. Otherwise, this salad is going to be very tart! Usually, you don’t have to worry about watermelon and blueberries as much, but the other two ingredients might be an issue.
- Chill before serving – If possible, make this fruit salad a few hours, or up to 2 days, in advance. This will allow the fruit to be fully chilled which always makes for a better experience on a hot summer day!
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