Holiday Kiwifruit Salad

A beautiful, composed salad of holiday colors. Cubes of winter pear, thinly sliced red apple, sliced jelled cranberry sauce and bright green slices of kiwifruit are decoratively arranged on a bed of red leaf lettuce and drizzled with cranberry-sour cream dressing.

Recipe Ingredients:

1 fresh winter pear, cored and cubed
1 red apple, cored and thinly sliced
Lemon or lime juice
1 (8-ounce) can jellied cranberry sauce - divided use
2 California kiwifruit, pared and sliced
Red leaf lettuce
1/3 cup dairy sour cream or sour half-and-half

Cooking Directions:

1. Dip pear and apple in lemon juice to prevent darkening.
2. Reserve 3 tablespoons cranberry sauce; slice remainder of jelled sauce into quarter slices.
3. Arrange kiwifruit, cranberry sauce slices, pear and apple or lettuce.
4. For dressing, combine sour cream with 3 tablespoons reserved cranberry sauce and 1 teaspoon lemon juice.

Makes 4 servings.

Recipe provided courtesy California Kiwifruit Commission.