There’s no easier way to bring color to your table and smiles to your party or house guests than to serve a freshly made fruit salad.

Festive and satisfying to make, fruit salads are a great way to capture the flavors of the season and are so versatile they can go from fun to formal depending on what dishes you choose present them in. (Plating and presentation options can range from rustic handmade bowls, standard plates, classic ramikins…even margarita glasses.)

Best of all, you don’t have to throw a party to enjoy a delicious fruit salad as they work equally well when served for breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner, or dessert.

Recipes for fruit salad can be either totally sweet or feature a tantalizing combination of sweet and savory flavors, so it’s simple to find one that harmonizes with the other foods you’ll be making.

Although the fruit salad recipes below would all work well for Labor Day Weekend parties and picnics, you’ll find that most of these delcious recipes don’t require very much labor at all.

Enjoy!

• Citrus Fruit Salad in Spicy Honey Recipe from Kitchen Unplugged (Pictured)

• Moroccan Orange Melon Summer Salad Recipe from Delicious Days

• Persimmon Pomegranate Fruit Salad Recipe From Simply Recipes

• Ecuadorian Drinkable Fruit Salad Recipe (Also Known as Come y Bebe) from Laylita’s Recipes

• Sangria Fruit Salad Recipe from My Own Sweet Thyme

• Citrus-Mint Melon Salad Recipe from Eliza Domestica (This Recipe Also Has a Fruit Popsicle Variation)

• Layered Fruit Salad Recipe from eCurry

• Wine Poached Pears With a Simple Fruit Salad Recipe from Kitchen Talk to Chew On

• Fruit Salad Recipe with Cantaloupe, Honeydew, Pineapple, and Dill From Kalyn’s Kitchen

• Chili Lime Fruit Salad Recipe from Food Blogga (Pictured)

• Fruit Salad Recipe (with Baby Shrimp and Toasted Coconut) from Rasa Malaysia

• Ginger Jeweled Fruit Salad Recipe from 101 Cookbooks

• Delicious Red Onion and Orange Salad Recipe from Nami-Nami

• Grape Salad With Almonds and Cilantro Recipe from Kitchen Parade

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(Photo Credit: Citrus Fruit Salad in Spicy Honey Recipe by Kitchen Unplugged and Chili Lime Fruit Salad Recipe by Food Blogga.)