Orange fruit salad has a variety of fresh fruit in a bright, sweet orange syrup. This fruit salad is endlessly customizable and makes a great breakfast, brunch, or lunch side dish!
Orange fruit salad is a simple fruit salad tossed in a bright, sweet orange syrup. It’s easy to customize with your favorite fruits, and it makes the perfect side for breakfast, brunch, or lunch.
This recipe goes well with everything from pancakes to waffles to breakfast casseroles to ham! So, it’s perfect for a casual weekend breakfast or a big holiday meal.
Ingredient notes and substitutions
- Sugar: Depending on how ripe and sweet your fruit is, you may want to adjust the amount of sugar accordingly.
- Fruit: Feel free to vary the fruit depending on your tastes, the season, and what you have on hand. Some fruit, though, like fresh bananas don’t keep as well as others.
How to make orange fruit salad
Here you’ll find instructions and step-by-step photos showing how to make this recipe. The full recipe, including ingredients, is given below.
Step 1: Stir together the water, sugar, orange juice, and orange zest in a small saucepan.
Step 2: Bring it to a boil over medium heat, stirring occasionally.
Step 3: Once at a boil, reduce heat to low and let it simmer for about 15-20 minutes, or until thickened.
Step 4: Remove the syrup from heat and stir in the vanilla extract.
Step 5: Let it cool to room temperature. If not using immediately, chill until ready to use.
Step 6: When you’re ready to finish the fruit salad, add the strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, grapes, and pineapple chunks to a large bowl.
Step 7: Pour the syrup over the fruit and toss to coat.
Step 8: Chill for at least 1 hour, or until ready to serve.
Recipe Tips!
- Cutting the pineapple: Unsure about how to cut the pineapple? If so, check out my tips for how to cut pineapple.
- Syrup: It’s important to let the syrup cool to room temperature so that it doesn’t cook the fruit.
- Make ahead: You can make this recipe several hours in advance. I don’t recommend making it more than 1 day in advance as the strawberries can wilt.
Storage
Store any leftover orange fruit salad in an airtight container in the refrigerator. It will keep for 3-4 days when properly stored in the fridge.
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Orange Fruit Salad
Equipment
- Mixing bowl
- Saucepan
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup fresh orange juice
- 2 tablespoons fresh orange zest
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 pints strawberries hulled and halved
- 1 pint blueberries
- 1 pint blackberries
- 2 cups red grapes halved
- 2 cups fresh pineapple chunks
Instructions
- Stir together the water, sugar, orange juice, and orange zest in a small saucepan.1/2 cup water, 1/2 cup granulated sugar, 1/4 cup fresh orange juice, 2 tablespoons fresh orange zest
- Bring it to a boil over medium heat, stirring occasionally.
- Once at a boil, reduce heat to low and let it simmer for about 15-20 minutes, or until thickened.
- Remove the syrup from heat and stir in the vanilla extract.1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Let it cool to room temperature.
- If not using immediately, chill until ready to use.
- When you’re ready to finish the fruit salad, add the strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, grapes, and pineapple chunks to a large bowl.2 pints strawberries, 1 pint blueberries, 1 pint blackberries, 2 cups red grapes, 2 cups fresh pineapple chunks
- Pour the syrup over the fruit and toss to coat.
- Chill for at least 1 hour, or until ready to serve.
Notes
- Sugar: Depending on how ripe and sweet your fruit is, you may want to adjust the amount of sugar accordingly.
- Fruit: Feel free to vary the fruit depending on your tastes, the season, and what you have on hand. Some fruit, though, like fresh bananas don’t keep as well as others.
- Nutrition values are estimates.
Nutrition
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