Today I am sharing this deliciously easy and healthy grilled mix fruit to celebrate summer along with some other blogging friends. Make sure you visit the rest of the links below for some more amazing tips and recipes to make your summer grilling truly spectacular.
Who doesn’t love a nice grilled dinner? I love grilling anytime of the year but summer and grilling go hand in hand at our house. I have grilled everything. And by everything I mean bacon and meatballs have in fact hit my grill. One of my new favorite things to grill is fruit. Grilled pineapple? Divine. Grilled watermelon? Let’s not talk about it. Grilled grapefruit? Where have you been all my life?
The first time I grilled grapefruit it slipped out of the peel so easily that I thought why not use the grapefruit shell as a bowl and make a deliciously healthy grilled fruit dessert? It was love at first thought and so I created. After just one spoonful of this amazing fruit salad I may never go back to traditional fresh fruit salad. It’s so good you won’t believe it isn’t “real” dessert.
Grilled fruit salad is perfect as a dinner side, a guilt-free dessert, or topping for ice cream or angel food cake. Homemade whipped cream would be a perfect finish if you are looking for just a teeny tiny bit of guilt with that dessert. You could even use it to top your morning oatmeal or pancakes.
Grilled Fruit Salad
- Yield: 2 servings 1x
Ingredients
- 1 large pink grapefruit
- 3 – 1/2-1 inch thick slices fresh pineapple
- 1 cup cherries, halved and pitted
- 1/2 cup blueberries
- 3 tablespoons caramelized honey
Instructions
- Pre-heat grill on medium/high for just a few minutes.
- Put cherries, blueberries, and honey in a small cast iron skillet on the grill.
- Put slices of pineapple and grapefruit cut side down on the grill.
- Close lid and let cook for 5 minutes.
- Check fruit for grill marks and flip. Give fruit in pan a stir.
- Cover and let grill another 5-7 minutes.
- Pull fruit off grill.
- Dice pineapple.
- Run paring knife around inside edge of grapefruit, then gently turn peel partially inside out to release as much of grapefruit as possible. Scrape out remaining grapefruit and remove separators and pulp.
- Mix together all fruit in pan then fill grapefruit shells and serve.
There are more than 15 other bloggers participating in this great grilling event so make sure to check out their posts too!
Burger Recipes
We’re Parents!?– Italian BBQ burgers
Courtney’s Sweets – Grilled Chicken BLT Burgers
O’boy Organic – Grilled California Buffalo Burger
Other Grilled Meat Recipes
Momma Lew – Chicken & Peppers Shish Kabobs
Open Hands – Honey BBQ Salmon
Motherhood Community – That’s The Rub (Steak Rub)
Raising A Family On A Budget – Sticky Sweet BBQ Ribs
Defining Dad – Rosemary Had a Little Lamb
Grilled Vegetable and Fruit Side Recipes
Diapered Knights – Gourmet Grilled Carrots
Real: The Kitchen & Beyond – Grilled Mixed Fruit w/ Grapefruit Bowl
Mom-Blog – Grilled Beets Salad
Grilled Desserts
Know Your Produce – Grilled Pineapple with Pound Cake
The Suburban Soapbox Grilled Campfire Quesadilla – aka Smores Quesadilla
Giggles Gobbles and Gulps– Grilled Plantains Banana Split
Other Grilled Recipes
Souffle Bombay – Grilled Mushroom Poppers / Grilled Mushrooms Stuffed w/ Cheese, Jalapeno & Bacon
Mommy Snapped – Grilled pizza
Wow! This sounds so delicious and refreshing!!! I never thought to grill some of these fruits!
Grilled Fruit Salad?? Wow that sounds and looks just amazing!!
Never thought about grilling fruit for a salad before! Looks yummy. Thanks, great idea.
That sounds like something I have never prepared. I never thought of putting fruit on the grill. Great side dish.
Love grilling. Never grilled grapefruit.
I am trying this PRONTO. I love grapefruit (so much so that when pregnant with my first I ate 6 in one sitting … um, not my best idea) and we grill fruit all the time – it just never occurred to me to grill grapefruit!
Easiest thing ever. I want to try adding some infused honey after I flip it over to finish next time. Maybe a little crystallized ginger. Mmm.
Grilled fruit salad is something ive never heard of and the grapefruit is an interesting touch.
Thinking about having a bunch of grilled fruits all at once sounds crazy good! Plus, it’s beautiful looking.
This looks so yummy!
That sounds good, probably brings out the sweetness in the fruit too!
So yummy! I’ve never thought to try grilled fruit but I know my kids would love it too!
I have never tried anything like this before, but it sounds amazing!!
I just love grilled fruit and yum for pairing with grapefuit!
I love grilled pineapple, but I had never thought of grilling other fruit. This looks delicious!
I want more. I think I’m starting up the grill for breakfast. 😀
This salad looks really good! I have got to give this a try this weekend!
Let me know what you think after you’ve had a bite.
I am obsessed with grilled fruit!
Me too! So perfect for anything but I am envisioning all sorts of combinations for oatmeal now.
Ok, now you’ve got me hooked. I’ve never grilled carrots OR fruit other than apples, so I’ am going to have to give this one a shot.
I have never grilled apples. Definitely trying this one.
I have yet to try grilled fruit but your fruit bowl looks amazing, I like baked grapefruit so I’m sure I would love it grilled too!
OMG, why have I never thought to do this!? And I love that you reuse the grapefruit as the bowl. Less dishes is always a plus here!
Now you can take this idea and soar with other grilled fruit ideas. Sky is the limit. I have all sorts of summer grilling plans. Meat, veggie, and fruit all on the grill. Healthy, delicious, less pots and pans.
Yum! Grilling fruit is one of my favorite things. I definitely want to try this salad.
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I love fruit! I’m going to have to try this. You’ve always got some great recipes here!
Thank you.
I have a serious addiction to cooked fruit, sauteed, baked,grilled…you name it! I have never thought to grill a grapefruit…I have had them broiled but never grilled. Great idea!