Recipe Wednesday: Summer Fruit Salad!

I don't know about all of you but Texas Summers just suck. I cannot stand Texas heat, I love cold. So when I wanted a fruit salad, this was the perfect one to make!! Although this calls for bananas due to my stomach I can't eat them, but you can make sure to add them to yours!

Ingredients

Sauce:

• ⅔ cup fresh orange juice
  ⅓ cup fresh lemon juice
  ⅓ cup packed brown sugar
  ½ teaspoon grated orange zest
  ½ teaspoon grated lemon zest
  1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Salad:

• 2 cups cubed fresh pineapple
  2 cups strawberries, hulled and sliced
  3 kiwi fruit, peeled and sliced
  3 bananas, sliced
  2 oranges, peeled and sectioned
  1 cup seedless grapes 
  2 cups blueberries

Instructions

• For the sauce: Bring orange juice, lemon juice, brown sugar, orange zest, and lemon zest to a boil in a saucepan over medium-high heat. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until slightly thickened, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla extract. Set aside to cool.
  
• For the salad: Layer fruit in a large, clear glass bowl in this order: pineapple, strawberries, kiwi fruit, bananas, oranges, grapes, and blueberries. Pour cooled sauce over fruit; cover and refrigerate for 3 to 4 hours before serving.

Elizabeth is a wife to her wonderful husband, a work at home mother to her beautiful little girl and a blogger for some time now. When she isn't spending time with her "Livvybug", or laughing with her husband, she is looking for new review opportunities and writing or singing along to classic rock and pop music!

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