Persimmon Pomegranate Fruit Salad

Persimmon salad with fuyu persimmons, pomegranate seeds, chopped apple, lemon, honey, and mint.

Elise Bauer

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Persimmon Pomegranate Apple Salad
Elise Bauer

Based on a tip in Alice Waters' cookbook, The Art of Simple Food, that fuyu persimmons make a good fruit salad, I begged some Fuyu persimmons from a neighbor who has a tree and set about to make this colorful harvest salad.

Persimmons come in two main varieties—fuyu, which are firm and sweet, shaped like a squat pumpkin and can be eaten like an apple, and hachiya, which are acorn shaped and extremely astringent until they are soupy ripe.

Fuyu Persimmons
Elise Bauer

This persimmon fruit salad is made with the apple-like fuyu variety. To the persimmons I added pomegranate seeds, diced Granny Smith apple, a little lemon juice, mint, and some honey.

Oh, my gosh, this is one of the best fruit salads I've ever had, and one of the best things I've ever made! So simple too. The mint, lemon, and honey are the only dressing the fruit need.

Persimmon Pomegranate Apple Salad
Elise Bauer

Persimmon Pomegranate Fruit Salad

Prep Time 15 mins
Total Time 15 mins
Servings 4 servings

Ingredients

  • 3 fuyu persimmons, peeled, chopped (1/4 to 1/2 inch pieces), seeds (if any) discarded
  • 3/4 cup pomegranate seeds
  • 1 Granny Smith or Fuji apple, peeled, cored, chopped (1/4 to 1/2 inch pieces)
  • 7-10 leaves fresh mint, thinly sliced crosswise (stack then, then roll them up like a cigar and take slices from the end)
  • 2 teaspoons lemon juice
  • 1 teaspoon honey

Method

  1. Gently toss all of the ingredients together.

Keeps for at least a couple of days in the refrigerator, but best eaten same day it is made.

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