Citrus Kiwi Fruit Salad with Pistachio Minted Sugar
A lite and sweet ending to a romantic meal!
Posted By Savita
Sharing with you, lite sweet, citrus-y, grapefruit, orange, and kiwi salad with refreshing touch of minted sugar and chopped pistachio.
This sweet fruit salad can be a perfect, lite and sweet ending to a romantic meal for two!
You can serve this salad for dessert or as a side in Valentine's Day Brunch Menu!
I have been following, food network star, Iron Chef, Mr. Bobby flay's hit tv series, Brunch at Bobby's... And few days back he shared gorgeous citrus salad which I fell in love with! Lite sweet, fresh fruits, honey, almonds, and mint sugar!! there was nothing in his salad that I don't like!!!
Luckily, I had some grapefruits at home and mint too!! couldn't believe my luck!! So made the salad and took these few shots quickly to share with you. Credit for original recipe certainly goes to Mr. Flay, but I did change a lot of things.... so I would say this recipe is inspired from his salad......
I think this fresh looking and vibrant salad will be great, for a lite dessert, for Valentine's day! Considering the theme, I added some heart-shaped kiwi fruit to the salad instead of blueberries in original recipe. Also, I used crushed raw pistachios instead of almonds! Mr. Flay recommends refrigerating this salad for 1 hr to 24 hrs, which makes this salad great to make-at-night on Friday and serve for Valentine's day brunch on Saturday!
One thing that I did not change at all... was the mint sugar! Oh my! does it taste good???? it taste like give-me-this-bowl-of-mint-sugar-and-see-you-tomorrow! and these words are coming from a not-so-sweet-lover, Savita!
seriously!! I'm the one who need a glass of water after everything sweet... but... not after this mint sugar!!
I don't eat sweet mint preparations or eat mint candies a lot!! I'm a savory person, you know!! but this mint-sugar was to-die-for! Citrus salad with lite honey syrup is really refreshing.....but... mint sugar made me feel like, why did not I try this before?
Well.... thanks to my Mr. Bobby Flay for sharing a yumm way of adding fineness to such a simple fruit salad.
I have always loved serving fresh fruits with fruit-syrup for dessert, but mint sugar and nuts can make it sing in your mouth, on all nodes! it is that yummy!!
My version of this recipe has ingredients, and measurements everything per my taste and I loved it. If you wish to follow, Mr. Flay's recipe, I have added a link to that as well!
I hope you all enjoy it!
I have to say, Vishal and I, loved it!!! even though I left very little mint sugar for him ;) I just tasted one spoon, right from the bowl.... and then.... by the time I finished enjoying spoon-after-spoon.... I just had 1 teaspoon mint sugar left for picture and for Vishal! hehe
Also, this citrus salad does not need a lot of mint sugar, just a little sprinkle is enough! I think...here... I making myself feel better ;)
my friends, you are allowed to eat it all.... like I did... just promise to skip your all sugary drinks that day!
Happy Cooking!
Cheers!
Savita!
Ingredients
- Citrus and Kiwi Salad
- 1 Grape Fruit ( segmented, juice reserved)
- 2 Navel Orange ( segmented, juice reserved)
- 2 Kiwi (sliced or cut into heart shapes, like I did)
- 2 tsp Honey
- Mint Sugar
- 5 Mint (5-6 mint leaves)
- 2 tbsp Sugar (white sugar)
- 1/4 Cup Pistachio
Directions
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1. For mint sugar, add sugar, mint in a food processor and pulse briefly to make mint sugar. Transfer to a small bowl. Also chop pistachios and set aside. Additional Notes:
You can also pulse all three, mint, sugar, pistachios, in food processor to make a streusel-like topping. - 2. Combine the grapefruits and oranges in a medium salad bowl and set aside. Combine the reserved citrus juices in a small saucepan (you should have at least 1/2 cup, if you don't, add enough fresh orange or grapefruit juice to make up the difference). Add the honey and bring to a boil. Cook until the mixture is reduced by half i.e, 1/4 cup. Remove from the heat and let cool to room temperature, at least 30 minutes.
- 3. Pour the mixture over the citrus. Cover and refrigerate the salad for at least 1 hour and up to 24 hours.
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4. Just before serving, add cut kiwi fruits, top with the minted sugar and pistachios! Serve with love! Enjoy!
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