Minty Summer Fruit Salad

Name: Minty Summer Fruit Salad
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 1 pint blueberries, rinsed; 16 oz container blackberries, rinsed; 16 oz container raspberries; 1 lb strawberries, quartered; 3 tbsp water; 5 fresh mint leaves, cut in half; 2 tbsp sugar (I use organic)

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Prep 15 min
Total 45 min
Servings 8

It's mid-summer and berries are at their freshest. This delicious fruit salad uses a mix of fresh berries combined with a fresh mint simple syrup. Delish! MORE+ LESS-

By Scaron

Updated August 4, 2016

Ingredients

pint blueberries, rinsed

oz container blackberries, rinsed

oz container raspberries

lb strawberries, quartered

tbsp water

fresh mint leaves, cut in half

tbsp sugar (I use organic)

Steps

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1

Combine the blueberries, blackberries, raspberries and strawberries in a large mixing bowl. Stir gently.
2

In a small saucepan, combine the water and mint leaves. Bring to a boil and then remove from the heat. Let sit for 10 minutes, then remove the leaves from the water.
3

Add the sugar to the water and set over medium heat. Whisk constantly until the sugar dissolves. Pour over the berries and then stir well.
4

Chill until ready to serve, at least 30 minutes.

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More About This Recipe

Berries. Berries. Berries. BERRIES!

I adore fresh berries. In the summertime, freshly picked blueberries and strawberries are so perfectly sweet – unlike anything you find in the grocery store.

My kids and I go to pick-your-own farms, coming home with giant crates of berries we’ve picked ourselves. It’s magical. And sometime in around mid-summer, our driveway is surrounded by bushes of wild blackberries. There’s nothing better than a quick walk up the driveway for berries to eat with breakfast.

Do you berry pick? Have berries growing around your house?

When it comes to fruit salad, the old standby – peaches, pears, grapes and cherries – is always good. But it’s summertime. Don’t you deserve something better than good? Something awesome, amazing, mouthwatering even?

My Minty Mid-Summer Fruit Salad is the perfect answer. It’s a mixture of four types of berries with a fresh mint simple syrup to tie it all together. Can a fruit salad be refreshing? Absolutely … and this one is.

Now, when you go to serve this, use a few mint leaves for garnish. It’s pretty, and it also clues everyone in that this is no ordinary fruit salad.

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Sarah W. Caron (aka scaron) is a food writer, editor and blogger who writes about family-friendly foods and raising a healthy family at Sarah’s Cucina Bella.