Spicy Honey Citrus Salad Recipe is a beautiful display of winter citrus — each type with a subtly different flavor and color. It’s a show-stopping first course!
Okay, so maybe it’s more a stack of citrus, than it is a salad.
Whatever you want to call it, it’s beautiful and bursting with the fresh sweet, tangy flavors of seasonal winter citrus.
Whether you serve this as a stunning first course at dinner, as a light lunch, or perhaps even as a refreshing dessert, this pretty pile of sliced citrus, doused in sweet honey and spicy jalapeño is truly a treat to remember.
Citrus season is winter, and each of these different varieties has a slightly different flavor from the other, and they blend beautifully together.
I always look forward to winter citrus, and take full advantage of it. In this presentation, I love the way the tangy flavors balance out with the sweet honey and spicy jalapeño
This could be an outstanding first course appetizer, or even a lovely, unexpected dessert!
I hope you share this Spicy Honey Citrus Salad Recipe with friends and family and of course, Enjoy every juicy bite!
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Spicy Honey Citrus Salad Recipe is a beautiful display of winter citrus -- each type with a subtly different flavor and color. It's a show-stopping first course!
- 1 teaspoon jalapeño pulp (see recipe instruction no. 1)
- 2 teaspoons honey
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- ½ teaspoon lime juice
- about 1 orange
- about 1 Blood orange
- about 1/2 grapefruit
- lime and lemon zest for garnish
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Use a Microplane grater/zester to grate the jalapeño pepper into pulp. If you don't have one, use a knife to finely chop the pepper until you have a purée.
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In a small bowl, combine the jalapeño, honey, lemon and lime juice. Mix until everything is well incorporated. Set aside.
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Now peel and then cut all of the citrus into approximately 1/4 inch slices -- just like this.
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Arrange a stack of citrus on two serving plates -- in any order you'd like, with about 1 teaspoon of the honey-jalapeño dressing between each slice.
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Garnish with lemon and lime zest and serve chilled or at room temperature.
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Coco says
January 22, 2014 at 11:23 pmLooks almost too pretty to eat…..only almost. 😉
valentina says
January 23, 2014 at 8:50 amthank you, Colette! xo
Ash-foodfashionparty says
January 23, 2014 at 5:16 pmThat is a gorgeous salad, so pretty. The jalapeno with the citrus, lovely.
sippitysup says
January 23, 2014 at 11:46 pmIt’s almost too pretty to eat. GREG
Candiss says
January 4, 2019 at 9:37 pmI love the idea of a spicy citrus salad! Sounds like such a perfect combo!
valentina says
January 5, 2019 at 9:30 pmIt is. 🙂 Thanks so much!
Sara says
January 4, 2019 at 10:15 pmThis salad is almost too pretty to eat! The perfect way to showcase winter fruit!
valentina says
January 5, 2019 at 9:30 pmI love winter fruits almost as much as summer fruits. 🙂 Thank you.
Bintu | Recipes From A Pantry says
January 5, 2019 at 4:38 amThis is so colourful and so pretty – and makes my mouth water! What a tasty sounding dish!
valentina says
January 5, 2019 at 9:31 pmThank you!
Claudia Lamascolo says
January 5, 2019 at 5:05 amVery pretty and really looks like the perfect salad living in the Sunshine state here. We have trees so I am all set!
valentina says
January 5, 2019 at 9:31 pmYou’re so fortunate to have citrus trees. I have one Meyer lemon tree and I love it! Thanks for the visit. 🙂
Emmeline says
January 5, 2019 at 8:25 amYesss this is everything I want right now! Citrus and spice – my two favorites.
valentina says
January 5, 2019 at 9:29 pmThanks! Hope you might try it. 🙂