Dragon Fruit Salad

good dragon fruit salad recipe bursting with fresh fruit flavor served in a fun fruit bowl!

At Avdaye, we add lots of tips in all of our recipes – because we are a home cook without any formal training, and we find we are more confident making dishes when we understand why it works, and what each ingredient means to the flavor of a recipe. Our goal is for even the most beginner home cook to feel empowered in the kitchen.

What Is Dragon fruit?

good dragon fruit salad with tons of berries and fresh fruit flavor – served in a dragon fruit bowl, suited to parties! This fruit salad is solid alongside eggs benedictmimosasblueberry wafflesand more – or even with BBQ favorites at a party!

We love serving these for breakfast, for parties, for lunch, and more – it is great as a dessert, good as an appetizer, or solid as a pretty snack.

Dragon fruit, also known as pitaya, is a cactus fruit native to the Americas in tropical locations. Dragon fruit is dramatic looking – with a bright red outside with green “scales” (like a dragon) and white fruit with black seeds inside.

Dragon fruit tastes a bit like a cross between a kiwi and a pear – it is sweet and good with berries and fruits!

How To Make Dragonfruit Salad

To cut a dragon fruit, use a sharp long knife and cut the fruit in half.

Using a butter knife or spoon, slide along the fruit to remove it from the peel.

Fruit can then be diced, or cut with a fun cookie cutter to make a shape like we did for pictures here.

Dragon fruit is great with all sorts of fruits – blueberries, kiwis, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, pears, apples, passionfruit, papaya, mango, and grapes!

Find your favorite fruits to fill your dragonfruit salad with – if you'd like to change up any of the amounts in the recipe below, go with what you love!

Kitchen notes

Add a glaze. If you'd like to top this fruit salad with a light Lemon Poppyseed Glaze, please refer to our Lemon Poppyseed Glazed Fruit Salad Recipe for a quick and simple recipe for a light sweet fruit salad glaze the whole family loves!

Recipe FAQs

How long can dragon fruit salad last?

This recipe can be kept for a day in an airtight container in the refrigerator – but fruit should be eaten as close to cutting and rinsing as possible as it starts to wither quickly.

Can we use different fruits?

You can swap out different berries, add apples, add grapes, bananas, mangoes, or any fruit you love the flavor of!

What color dragonfruit do we use?

Use whichever color dragonfruit you can find available that is fresh and ready to serve.

Serve it with

dragonfruit salad is good with deviled eggswith easy and good Lemon Blueberry Crepeswith a hearty dinner like pork tenderloinor with a meaty, good broiled ribeye steak and mushrooms dinner!

This fruit salad pairs perfectly with a number of our favorite easy breakfast dishes:

You can find our entire breakfast recipe archives here.

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Ingredients

• 1 dragonfruit, cut in half, scooped out, and diced
• 1 kiwi, peeled and sliced into rounds
• ½ cup blueberries
• ½ cup raspberries
• ½ cup strawberries

Method

1. Carefully scoop dragon fruit flesh out of dragon fruit using a spoon, leaving the peel in tact to use as a serving bowl.
2. Dice dragon fruit, kiwis, and strawberries.
3. Mix and place back into pitaya peel as a bowl.