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Kefir and citrus fruit salad with cumin, honey, ginger and lemon dressing

Katrina Meynink
Katrina Meynink

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This colourful savoury (or sweet) fruit salad is packed with Vitamin C.
This colourful savoury (or sweet) fruit salad is packed with Vitamin C.Katrina Meynink

This has all the vitamin C flu-busting of citrus, the soothing benefits of manuka honey and gut flourishing kefir. If you fall into the no-fruit-in-savoury category a la pineapple on pizza, look away. Or just remove the onion and replace the cumin with vanilla bean paste to push this salad into 'sweet' territory.

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Ingredients

Dressing

  • ¼ cup olive oil

  • 1 tsp ground cumin

  • ¼ tsp minced ginger

  • 1 tbsp Manuka honey

  • zest and juice of ½ a lemon

Salad

  • 1 cup Greek-style yoghurt

  • ¼ cup milk kefir

  • 2 mandarins, peeled, pith removed, segmented

  • 2 gold kiwifruit, peeled and sliced into 3-5mm-thick rounds

  • 1 green kiwifruit, peeled and sliced into 3-5mm-thick rounds

  • 1 ruby red grapefruit, peeled, pith removed, sliced into 1cm-thick rounds

  • 1 Valencia orange, peeled, pith removed, sliced into 1cm-thick rounds

Topping

  • ½ red onion, finely sliced

  • 1 tbsp finger lime pearls (optional)

  • arils of ¼ pomegranate

Method

  1. 1. For the dressing, combine the dressing ingredients in a bowl, whisk briefly to combine and set aside.

    2. Combine the yoghurt and kefir in a bowl. Season generously and scoop onto a large serving plate. Top with slices of the fruit and scatter over the red onion, finger lime pearls and pomegranate arils.

    3. Spoon over the dressing and serve.

    Tip: To ensure your yoghurt-kefir mix isn't too runny, it is important to use a really thick Greek-style yoghurt for the base. I also deliberately left my slices of grapefruit and orange nice and thick, so they take on all the dressing flavours.

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Katrina MeyninkKatrina Meynink is a cookbook author and Good Food recipe columnist.

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Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/goodfood/recipes/kefir-and-citrus-fruit-salad-with-cumin-honey-ginger-and-lemon-dressing-20190612-h1fb6r.html