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
Author: Nava
Recipe type: Winter dessert / Christmas
Cuisine: Healthy
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Serves: 8
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.
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
- ½ cup dried cranberries
- ¼ 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.