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Ode to a healthy spring, Mostly Fresh, Spiced Fruit Salad takes 30 minutes to prepare.

Ode to a healthy spring, Mostly Fresh, Spiced Fruit Salad takes several minutes to cook.

Ode to a healthy spring, Mostly Fresh, Spiced Fruit Salad makes 14 servings.

The ingredients for Ode to a healthy spring, Mostly Fresh, Spiced Fruit Salad are:

1- 11 oz can mandarin oranges
1-20 oz can pineapple chunks
1- 15 oz can sliced mango, cut over bowl into chunks
15- black grapes, seedless
15- red grapes, seedless
6 oz- blueberries, fresh
1- pear, fresh, peeled, cored, quartered into 1/8ths and then cut into chunks
1- large apple, fresh, cored, quartered into 1/8ths and then cut into chunks.
12, strawberries, fresh, remove tops and quartered
1/2 cup- raisins
2 tsp- ginger root, fresh, remove skin with peeler, then grated
lemon juice- from 1/2 fresh lemon (roll on counter to soften before halving)
1 tsp- cinnamon, ground (divided)
1 tsp- nutmeg ground (divided)
1/2 tsp- cumin, ground (divided)
1/2- tsp- turmeric (divided)
6- cloves, whole (divided)
2- ripe banana, sliced (add 4-5 slices per serving when served)
1/2 cup- granola, Like Bear Naked, triple berry Crunch (add by 1 tbls per serving when served)
2- 6 oz containers, Chobani Greek yogurt,black cherry, stirred (added by one oz (approx. 2 tbls) per serving when served)
*1 cup- Coconut, flaked, if desired (added by 1 tbls per serving when served). Coconut adds 35 calories and 3 grams saturated fat per serving.

Here is how you make Ode to a healthy spring, Mostly Fresh, Spiced Fruit Salad:

1) Drain the juice from the 3 cans of fruit into a pitcher before placing contents into a (very) large bowl. *Add the tops from the strawberries (squeeze), the peelings from the ginger and the bulk of the lemon, to this liquid and let seep. Before using, pour through a sieve. 2) Add the rest of the ingredients except the banana, yogurt and granola, adding apple last so it is on top. 3) Squeeze lemon juice over apples and fruit.4) Grate the ginger over bowl add sprinkle half the spices. Gently mix.5) Sprinkle the other half of the spices and gently mix again.Let stand in refrigerator for one hour minimum , pour juice/spice mixture from bottom of bowl back over fruit before serving.Add a couple tbls of the fruit juice mix over each serving.Add banana, granola and yogurt (and coconut if desired)only to amount to be served to maintain its freshness..Serving Size:?14- 1 cup servings

The nutritional information for Ode to a healthy spring, Mostly Fresh, Spiced Fruit Salad is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 14
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 157.4

• Total Fat: 1.0 g
• Cholesterol: 0.7 mg
• Sodium: 18.6 mg
• Total Carbs: 32.8 g
• Dietary Fiber: 3.4 g
• Protein: 3.1 g

The dietary needs meet for Ode to a healthy spring, Mostly Fresh, Spiced Fruit Salad is Vegetarian