This simple and pretty combination of winter fruits — pears, apples, oranges, and pineapple, spiced with crystallized ginger — is a refreshing finish to any meal. It’s pretty enough to serve as a Christmas dinner dessert, accompanied by your favorite cookies. Recipe adapted from Vegan Holiday Kitchen. Photos by Susan Voisin.
Gingered Winter Fruit Medley
This simple and pretty combination of winter fruits is a refreshing finish to any meal, and pretty enough to serve as a Christmas dinner dessert, accompanied by your favorite cookies.
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Servings: 8
Ingredients
- 2 pears any variety, or two different types, including Asian pears, cored, seeded and diced
- 2 Granny Smith apples cored, seeded, and diced
- 2 small oranges such as clementines, peeled and sectioned or 2 small blood oranges, peeled and diced
- One 20-ounce can unsweetened pineapple rings or chunks drained
- 1/2 cup dried cranberries
- 1/4 cup sliced crystallized ginger or more or less to taste
- Two 6-ounce containers piña colada or vanilla nondairy yogurt soy or coconut
- Ground cinnamon or freshly grated nutmeg
Instructions
- Combine all the ingredients except the yogurt in a serving bowl and mix together.
- Serve in small dessert cups, preferably glass. Top serving with a dollop of yogurt and a sprinkling of cinnamon or nutmeg.
- Here are more recipes for fruity compositions.
2 Comments
Dmitri
December 14, 2015 at 7:30 pmMy suggestion is to dip the pear and apple pieces in the pineapple juice right after dicing. Prevents browning. Also, I never really did cotton to cranberries, so I used drid cherries.
Mukti Jain
December 26, 2016 at 10:17 pmI prepared it with fresh pineapple and Cherry with strawberry yogurt.