California Fruit Salad Recipe

California Fruit Salad Recipe

  • 3 tablespoons Safeway SELECT Slivered Almonds or pine nuts
  • 4 (8 ounce) oranges
  • 2 (3/4 pound) ruby or pink grapefruit
  • 2 (1/2 pound) firm-ripe avocados
  • Large butter, green-, or red-leaf lettuce leaves, rinsed and crisped
  • 1 (1 pound) firm-ripe papaya, peeled, seeded, and sliced
  • 2 cups red or black grapes, rinsed
  • 1 cup Safeway SELECT Premium Collection Orange Poppyseed Vinaigrette
  • Salt and pepper
  1. In a 6- to 8-inch frying pan over medium heat, stir or shake nuts until golden, 3 to 5 minutes. Pour from pan and let cool.
  2. Cut peel and white membrane from oranges and grapefruit. Over a bowl, cut between membranes to release fruit segments; put in bowl and set aside or cover and chill up to 6 hours.
  3. Peel, pit, and slice the avocados; coat slices with some of the citrus juice from the bowl.
  4. Line a large platter with lettuce leaves. Arrange orange and grapefruit segments, avocados, papaya, and grapes on leaves. Sprinkle with nuts. Moisten with a little of the poppy seed dressing, then spoon portions of salad onto plates and add more dressing and salt and pepper to taste.