Name: Fruit Salad with Fennel, Watercress, and Smoked Salt
Yield: 4 Servings
Ingredients: 1/4 cup olive oil; 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice; 1/4 teaspoon smoked or flaky sea salt; 1/4 small honeydew melon, rind removed, very thinly sliced; 1 pluot or plum, sliced into thin wedges; 1/2 cup halved pitted fresh cherries; 1/2 cup unseasoned rice vinegar; 1/2 small fennel bulb, thinly sliced; 1 cup torn frisée; 1 cup trimmed watercress; 2 medium ruby red grapefruits, peel and white pith removed, flesh sliced into 1/4"-thick rounds; Smoked or flaky sea salt; Freshly ground black pepper

Image may contain Food Salad Dish Meal Plant and Lunch

Fruit Salad with Fennel, Watercress, and Smoked SaltChristopher Baker

Feel free to adapt this fruit salad as the seasons change; aim for a mix of juicy fruit (like melon), stone fruit, and berries.

Recipe information

Yield
4 Servings

Ingredients

For the vinaigrette:

1/4 cup olive oil

1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice

1/4 teaspoon smoked or flaky sea salt

For the salad:

1/4 small honeydew melon, rind removed, very thinly sliced

1 pluot or plum, sliced into thin wedges

1/2 cup halved pitted fresh cherries

1/2 cup unseasoned rice vinegar

1/2 small fennel bulb, thinly sliced

1 cup torn frisée

1 cup trimmed watercress

2 medium ruby red grapefruits, peel and white pith removed, flesh sliced into 1/4"-thick rounds

Smoked or flaky sea salt

Freshly ground black pepper

Preparation

For the vinaigrette:
Step 1
Whisk oil, lemon juice, and salt in a small bowl to combine; set aside.
For the Salad:
Step 2
Toss melon, pluot, cherries, and vinegar in medium bowl. Let sit, tossing occasionally, until fruit is lightly pickled, 10–15 minutes; drain.
Step 3
Toss fennel, frisée, and watercress with half of vinaigrette in a large bowl. Arrange grapefruits on a serving platter; sprinkle with smoked salt. Top with pickled fruit and scatter dressed fennel salad over.
Step 4
Serve salad drizzled with remaining lemon vinaigrette and sprinkled with smoked salt and pepper.

Recipe notes

See Related Recipes and Cooking Tips

Our 59 Favorite Sweet and Savory Cherry Recipes
Celebrate summer's ruby-red stone fruit with our best recipes for cherry pies, cakes, salads, relishes, and more.
Our Best Sweet and Savory Plum Recipes
When the late-summer fruit is in season, we're eating it every way we can.
35 Ways to Take Fruit Salad Up a Notch
These recipes freshen up fruit with syrups, spices, chopped nuts, and more.
10 Ways to Cook With Watercress
Spicy like arugula and sturdy like spinach, watercress is a green that can do almost anything. Use it to build the base for a soup, add crunch to a salad, or give anything (anything!) a peppery finish.
What You Need to Know About Salt
The only ingredient you use in everything you cook.