An easy, snack, side, or dessert full of your favorite berries. Just toss and serve!
Prep Time10 minutesmins
Cook Time0 minutesmins
Total Time15 minutesmins
Course: Dessert, Snacks
Cuisine: American
Keyword: fall recipe, quick, summer
Servings: 6
Equipment
Melon Baller
Ingredients
2minipumpkins
1pintNaturipe blueberries
1pintNaturipe blackberries
1pintNaturipe raspberries
16 oz Naturipe strawberrieshulled (tops cut off) and diced
1zest and juicelime
1 1/2Tablespoon honey
2teaspoonsmintfinely chopped
Instructions
Grab your cutting board and your knife and cut the top off your mini pumpkins. Use a melon baller to scoop out the flesh of your pumpkins so that the inside is hollow. Discard all the seeds and stringy parts, or put them in the food recycle bin.
Put your blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, and strawberries in a colander (or strainer) and rinse them with cold or cool water. Lay them out in a single layer on a clean area and gently dry your berries with a clean dishcloth or a paper towel. Then add them to a large mixing bowl.
Let's start zesting. Use a zester and rub it on the skin of your lime so you get small shavings of lime. As you start to see white, zest a different area so you only zest the green skin. Then cut your lime in half with a knife and squeeze out the lime juice. Rotate the lime in your hand and squeeze it again to get as much juice as possible. Then add the lime zest, lime juice, and chopped mint to your large mixing bowl.
Add your honey to a small mixing bowl that’s microwave safe. Put it in the microwave for 5-10 seconds. It’s ready when it’s heated and has a runny consistency. Then pour the honey over your berries in the large mixing bowl.
Toss your berries until all of them are coated in the honey dressing. Add a squeeze of lime juice and additional honey to taste.
Add the berries to the hollowed out mini pumpkins and serve for an adorable, fun, and tasty fall treat!
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Notes
If you don’t have a melon baller, try using a small spoon or cookie scoop. Anything that’s small enough to fit inside your mini pumpkins and is able to hollow out the inside works well.
When you need to serve a lot of people, add your berry fruit salad to a large pumpkin for the festiveness of fall.