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This is the best Fruit Salad Dressing recipe to make for fruit salads!! It’s an addictive lime honey dressing for fruit salad that’s made with just three simple ingredients and it comes together in a pinch.

A clear glass mason jar filled with lime Fruit Salad Dressing. A clear glass bowl filled with fruit salad sits next to the jar.

Lime Fruit Salad Dressing is super easy to make and it’s perfect to serve with big fruit salads for breakfast, brunch, birthday parties, baby showers, backyard barbecues and holidays like Easter, Mother’s Day and Fourth of July. 

Three small bowls filled with honey, lime juice and lime zest. A sprig of fresh mint sits next to the bowls.

This simple fruit salad dressing is a quick blend of fresh lime juice, honey and fresh mint. Dressings don’t get much easier than this one! It takes a plain fruit salad and makes it extra refreshing and delicious! 

Fruit Salad Dressing Recipe

  • 1/2 cup clover honey
  • 1/4 cup fresh lime juice
  • 1 heaping teaspoon grated lime zest
  • 2 tablespoons fresh mint, finely chopped
  • Fresh Lime Juice and Zest. Fresh is best for this recipe. It adds freshness and flavor. Don’t use the bottled stuff. 
  • Honey. I like to use clover honey, but you can use whatever honey you like. 
  • Mint. We add fresh mint to this dressing which gives it an amazing flavor and goes really well with fresh fruit.

Variations

  • Omit the mint
  • Swap out the lime juice and zest and use lemon or orange juice and zest instead.
  • Use pure maple syrup instead of honey (I like to use pure maple syrup best when I make dressing with orange juice).

A clear mason jar filled with honey lime dressing for fruit salad. A clear glass bowl filled with fruit salad sits next to the jar.

How To Make Dressing For Fruit Salad

  1. Blend Ingredients. Using a fork or wire whisk, mix the honey and lime juice in a small bowl until well blended. Stir in the lime zest and finely chopped mint.
  2. Chill. Refrigerate the dressing before tossing your salad with it. The colder the better.

A clear glass mason jar filled with lime juice and honey. A clear glass bowl filled with fruit sits next to the jar.

How To Juice Limes

here’s a few easy ways to juice a lime, but rolling, slicing and squeezing citrus is the method I most frequently use.

  1. Hand squeezing. Place the lime on the counter and using the palm of your hand apply pressure to the lime as you roll the lime back and forth. Then slice the lime in half and squeeze the lime over a bowl using your hand to extract all of the juice from the lime. 
  2. Lime reamer.  Place the lime on the counter and using the palm of your hand apply pressure to the lime as you roll the lime back and forth. Then slice the lime in half and place the lime on the reamer sliced side down and twist the lime half to extract all of the juice from the lime. 
  3. Juice presser.  Slice the lime in half and place half of the lime sliced side up on the presser and squeeze the handles together as the juice squeezes out into a bowl.

How Much Juice Is In One Lime?

Limes can vary in the amount of juice they produce. You can cut open a lime and it might be as juicy as a lemon and other times, they’ll be very dry on the inside hardly producing any juice at all.

  • 1 large lime can produce 3 tablespoons lime juice
  • 1 medium lime can produce 2 tablespoons lime juice
  • 1 small lime can produce 1 to 1-1/2 tablespoons lime juice

A tan colored bowl filled with fruit salad. A gold fork rests in the bowl.

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A clear glass mason jar filled with Fruit Salad Dressing. A clear glass bowl filled with fruit salad sits next to the jar.
Yield: 8 servings

Fruit Salad Dressing

Prep Time 10 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes

This is the best Fruit Salad Dressing recipe to make for fruit salads!! It's an addictive lime honey dressing for fruit salad that's made with just three simple ingredients and it comes together in a pinch.

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup clover honey
  • 1/4 cup fresh lime juice
  • 1 heaping teaspoon lime zest, finely grated
  • 2 tablespoons fresh mint, finely chopped

Instructions

  1. Mix the honey and lime juice in a small bowl until well blended. Stir in the lime zest and chopped mint.

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

8

Serving Size:

1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 67Total Fat: 0gSaturated Fat: 0gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 0gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 1mgCarbohydrates: 18gFiber: 0gSugar: 18gProtein: 0g

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Cuisine: American / Category: Salads