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Home / Recipes / Small Meals / Fruit Salad / Greek Yogurt Fruit Salad Dressing

Greek Yogurt Fruit Salad Dressing

5 mins
| 4 Comments |
5 from 3 votes
Jump to Recipe 03/21/18 | Updated: 05/03/20 | by Nora

This Greek Yogurt Fruit Salad Dressing is a healthy way to dress up your fruit salad. Perfect for Easter, Mother’s Day or the BBQ season – and it’s amazing for red, white and blue fruit salads! Try it this summer!

Pouring Greek Yogurt Fruit Salad Dressing over a bowl of triple berry fruit salad.

Being in Switzerland definitely has its upsides. Mountains, snow, pretty landscapes, really good health care.

And then it has its downsides. Like having to wait for years until new products become widely available here. I used to have my own private little analysis on this as a teen, when I would track the time it took for a certain chewing gum brand to release flavors in Switzerland vs the UK. I think one time it was 3 years. THREE YEARS.

The same happened with Greek yoghurt. Due to my job (uhh, this blog, WHAT!) I’m obviously hanging out around the Internet all day long. And when healthy Greek yogurt exploded all over the American market in, oh, 2008? I guess I’m still waiting for that to happen around here. The thing we call Greek yogurt in Switzerland is just regular yogurt with cream added. What even.

It’s a good thing I can just head to France to do my shopping, because the one grocery store I found stocking Fage is a million miles away, and one pot is almost 3$. So, the Greek yogurt for this dressing came from France.

Consider yourself lucky I have this option to go shopping in different countries, because otherwise I wouldn’t be able to share this amazing Greek Yogurt Fruit Salad Dressing with you today.

It’s really the simplest thing ever, but it adds such a nice twist to fresh fruit. Unlike my Creamy Fruit Salad Dressing and my Creamy Poppy Seed Fruit Salad Dressing , this one is no-cook and incredibly easy. I’m almost ashamed to call it a recipe, but alas, here I am. Sometimes simple is best.

Greek Yogurt Fruit Salad Dressing in a Weck jar.

What I love about this Greek Yogurt Fruit Salad Dressing:

  • It’s ready in a flash. Literally, not even 5 minutes. Perfect for a last-minute dessert!
  • It’s refined sugar free. I sweetened it with a touch of honey, but you could use maple syrup as well.
  • It’s nice and tart. The lemon juice gives this a really nice, fresh twist. If you’re more into very sweet creamy fruit salads, you might want to try the recipes I linked above instead. They’re made with all-natural ingredients too, just a little sweeter.

Now one word of warning: Do not use this on fresh kiwi, papaya or pineapple (canned fruit is fine!). The enzymes in those types of fresh fruit break up the yogurt, giving it a bitter and metallic taste. Ugh, found that out the hard way when I ignored what my science teacher taught me in school.

#sorebellious

If you’re planning on using any of this fresh fruit in your salad, you should really make my non-creamy poppy seed fruit salad dressing instead. It’s pretty amazing, too 😉

Now this recipe literally has one action step and two side steps.

How to make Greek Yogurt Fruit Salad Dressing:

  1. Whisk all ingredients together.
  2. Chill until ready to use.
  3. Try not to eat in its entirety before it hits the fruit.

Spooning Greek Yogurt Fruit Salad Dressing out of a small weck jar.

See why I was embarrassed to call this a recipe? But it’s too good to hide it from you.

You’ll find this adds just the right amount of creamy tartness to a bowl of fresh fruit – perfect for warm spring weather on Easter or Mother’s Day, or to cool down during summer at a picnic, potluck or BBQ. Also, always thinking of my American friends, because it’s so white it makes the perfect healthy dressing for your Fourth of July red white blue dessert.

Also also, kind of fell in love with California when I was there this month. So, I now feel qualified to share all your holidays with you. Right? I knew we were on the same page with this ♡

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Greek Yogurt Fruit Salad Dressing

This Greek Yogurt Fruit Salad Dressing is going to be your new favorite thing to smother your fruit in. Made with all natural ingredients, this refined sugar free healthy yogurt dressing will turn your fruit salad into a wonderfully creamy dessert!
Recipe by Nora from Savory Nothings
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Recipe details

Prep 5 mins
Total 5 mins
Servings 8 servings

Ingredients
 

  • 1 ½ cups Greek yogurt
  • Juice of 1 lemon OR ½ orange
  • 3 tablespoons honey
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Instructions
 

  • Whisk all ingredients together until smooth. Chill until ready to use.
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Notes

I suggest not using this on fresh kiwi, pineapple or papaya (canned is fine!). The enzymes in the fresh fruit will break up the yogurt and turn it bitter and metallic.

Nutrition

Calories: 49kcalCarbohydrates: 8gProtein: 3gCholesterol: 1mgSodium: 13mgPotassium: 52mgSugar: 7gVitamin C: 1.5mgCalcium: 41mgIron: 0.1mg
Nutrition is an estimate.

More recipe information

Course: Dressing
Cuisine: American

Nora Rusev from Savory Nothings
About Nora 
When I got married to my professional chef husband, I realized I had to step up my game in the kitchen. Now I share my favorite foolproof family recipes here on Savory Nothings: Chef-approved, kid-vetted and easy enough for everyday home cooks like you and me!   Learn more.

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  1. Shannon Smith says

    January 04, 2020 at 8:16 pm

    What kind of yogurt did you use?

    Reply
    • Nora Rusev says

      January 04, 2020 at 9:21 pm

      Just plain Greek yogurt! I tried full fat and low fat, both are fine. Full fat is creamier and richer, you might need a little extra honey if you’re not much into the tart yogurt taste if using low fat. But I’ve had emails from readers who made it with vanilla Greek yogurt and really liked that. Hope that helps!

      Reply
  2. Lois says

    September 03, 2019 at 1:00 am

    5 stars
    Delicious made with Stawberries, grapes, blueberries and bananas.

    Reply
    • Nora says

      September 05, 2019 at 8:09 pm

      That sounds like a wonderful combo, Lois!

      Reply

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