Summer Berry Fruit Salad with Lime Honey Drizzle

Featured Ingredients

Read below about a few of the ingredients used to make Summer Berry Fruit Salad with Lime Honey Drizzle.

Berries - I typically like using a combination of raspberries, strawberries, and blueberries. This time the farmers market had ripe blackberries so I swapped out the strawberries. Feel free to use what you prefer, whether it's a medley of berries or simply one type.
Wash the delicate berries carefully by gently placing them into a generously sized, smooth-bottomed colander. Setting the water flow to half strength, gently tilt the colander from side to side, ensuring that each berry receives a rinse. Do not agitate them too vigorously and avoid overcrowding the strainer. When rinsed, transfer the berries onto a towel or multiple layers of absorbent paper towels, allowing them to lightly soak up any remaining water. Tenderly pat the top of the berries with another piece of paper towel. Once their rinsed, transfer them into the container of your choosing.
Zest - This recipe calls for lime zest, but you can use lemon as well. You'll need a microplane or cheese grater to remove the zest. You'll want to peel away only the top green part, leaving the white bitter pith behind. If you are in the market for a new kitchen tool, the microplane is one of my favorites. It gets used weekly, is low in cost, and lasts for years.

Honey - I am relatively new to the honey world. I've always had a honey bear on hand through the years for guests or the random recipe that calls for it, but really never cared for the flavor. In the last few years, I've had the opportunity and access to a local Pacific Northwest business that sells honey and it has seriously changed my life! I learned that bees source honey from all different types of plants, and each honey has a different flavor.

Grocery stores will normally sell clover honey and occasionally blackberry honey. In the past, I believed that honey was made with blackberries in it, but no. It is honey that comes from bees who forage their nectar from the flowers of blackberry bushes. You can also get honey sourced from pumpkin, radish, coriander, my all time favorite meadowfoam flower, and much more! Each honey has a subtle but noticeable difference in flavor. I enjoy the meadowfoam flower honey the most because it tastes like marshmallows!
If you'd like an easy read to see exactly how these amazing bees make their tasty honey check out this interesting article at Honeyflow.com.