Strawberry and Mint Fruit Salad (AIP, paleo, vegan)

This simple strawberry and mint fruit salad recipe is fresh and healthy. It's super easy to make but it looks good enough to be served as a special occasion dessert.

Here is a dessert idea with strawberries that is extremely easy to fix. I love that it is so fresh and seasonal. Moreover, it looks good enough to be served at a fancy dinner or for any special occasion! (See below my notes on how to make this strawberry and mint fruit salad instantly fancy).

You can of course also have this delicious strawberry and mint fruit salad for breakfast or brunch.

Ingredients

• fresh strawberries: for your information, strawberries are part of the "dirty dozen". Which means that they are part of the list of produce that contain the most pesticides, even after washing. So, if you can afford them and find them, try to get organic strawberries.
• lemon juice
• fresh mint leaves
• Optional : unrefined sugar (muscovado or coconut sugar) or maple syrup

See recipe card for quantities.

How do you cut strawberries for fruit salad?

Cut the green leafy part at the top of each strawberry. Then quarter all strawberries. If you have any smaller strawberries just cut those ones in half. On the contrary, if you have very big strawberries you might want to cut them more than just quarters.

How to make this strawberry mint salad

1. Give the strawberries a rince under cold water. Remove the green leafy part at the top of each strawberry.
2. Cut the strawberries into bite sized pieces and transfer those into a large bowl. Add the lemon juice, chopped mint and unrefined sugar or maple syrup. Mix to combine all the ingredients. And voilà! Serve cold or at room temperature.

How to serve this fruit salad to make it fancy

The secret to instantly transform this very simple and super easy salad into a "fancy dessert to impress" is to serve it in beautiful glasses.

Believe me, if you serve it in a large salad bowl, you won't get the same "wow effect".

So really, it's worth it! Here I'm using, coupe glasses but you can use any kind of glasses. Just pick the most beautiful ones you have on hand.

Same with the cutlery: select your best looking forks or spoons to serve it with. I recommend using small cutlery.

Other fruit dessert recipes

• French apple pie (Coconut free, AIP, paleo, vegan)
• Banana blueberry muffins (Coconut free, AIP, paleo)
• Banana flambe (AIP, paleo, vegan)
• Apple cinnamon muffins (Gluten free, AIP, paleo)
• Pear and chocolate tart (gluten free, paleo, vegan)