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Pomelo Salad

By: 👩‍🦳 Linda · · · 🗨 34 Comments

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This delicious Pomelo Salad with chopped peanuts and toasted coconut flakes is a must-try! It is sweet, tangy, juicy, and refreshing.

This delicious Pomelo Salad with chopped peanuts and toasted coconut flakes is a must-try! It is sweet, tangy, juicy, and refreshing. | RotiNRice.com #pomelo #pomelosalad #chinesenewyear #lunarnewyear

Ever since I started making Yee Sang, pomelo is a must have at our house during the Chinese New Year celebration. I usually use about a third of that huge citrus fruit for the Yee Sang and simply eat the rest. This year, I decided to save half the fruit for a salad. This refreshing Pomelo Salad was inspired by both the Yee Sang and Thai Pomelo Salad. The dressing is a simpler version of the Yee Sang dressing while the addition of coconut flakes and peanuts came from the Thai Pomelo Salad.

Pomelo

Pomelo is a pale green to yellow colored citrus fruit with a thick rind. It tastes like a mild grapefruit and has a very slight hint of bitterness. Pomelos come in two varieties – a sweet kind with white flesh and a slightly tangy kind with pinkish flesh. The ones we find here has a yellow rind with pinkish flesh. They start appearing in the stores in January and February and are a must have for the Chinese New Year. Their flesh is an essential ingredient in Yee Sang or Raw Fish Salad.

Peeled pomelo

Refreshing Pomelo Salad

This delicious Pomelo Salad with chopped peanuts and toasted coconut flakes is a must-try! It is sweet, tangy, juicy, and refreshing. | RotiNRice.com #pomelo #pomelosalad #chinesenewyear #lunarnewyear

Pomelo Salad

This delicious Pomelo Salad with chopped peanuts and toasted coconut flakes is a must-try! It is sweet, tangy, juicy, and refreshing. | RotiNRice.com
Author : Linda Ooi
Course : Salad
Cuisine : Fusion
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Prep Time 15 mins
Total Time 15 mins
Servings : 4
Calories : 141kcal

Ingredients
  

  • ½ small pomelo yielding 1 cup (150g) flesh
  • ½ cup cilantro leaves (10g)
  • ½ cup large coconut flakes (toasted) (20g)
  • ¼ cup toasted peanuts ( coarsely chopped) (40g)
  • 1 tsp sesame seeds

Dressing

Instructions
 

  • Combine pomelo, cilantro, and peanuts in a large bowl.
  • Mix together all dressing ingredients in a small bowl. Pour dressing over ingredients in the large bowl.
  • Toss to get everything well mixed.
  • Sprinkle toasted coconut and sesame seeds over salad.
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  • Serve immediately.

Nutrition

Calories: 141kcal
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A delicious serving of Pomelo Salad.

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This delicious Pomelo Salad with chopped peanuts and toasted coconut flakes is a must-try! It is sweet, tangy, juicy, and refreshing. | RotiNRice.com

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Recipe card

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  8. Jeannie says

    My favorite fruit for CNY too, just me and my 2nd boy, so we usually bond at this time of year, enjoying this fruit together:D Your salad certainly looks yummy!

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    • Biren says

      I do enjoy pomelos on its own but I think it tastes even better in a salad like this one or yee sang as some of them can be pretty tart. Yes, it is nice to share something special with that one child.

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  9. Marsha @ The Harried Cook says

    I love pomelo and it’s available in stores here sometimes… Thanks for the recipe! Will try it the next time I get my hands on a pomelo! Thanks for sharing 🙂 And thats a lovely giveaway! I think the Christmas Cooking pack is adorable…

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  11. MyFudo says

    After a few attempts with pomelo juice mixes turning bitter and unsuccessful, I have resolved to take an alternative route with this fruit. Rather than using the juice, i’d rather use it in fresh salads. This will be a nice way to start. Great recipe!

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    • Biren says

      I have never tried juicing it as I normally eat it fresh. I must say though that it actually tastes better in a salad. Do give this a try.

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  12. Joanne says

    I see pomelos int he store all the time but have never actually tasted one! This sounds like the perfect salad to kick off my inevitable love affair with them.

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  16. Lyndsey @TheTinySkillet says

    Bire, what a beautiful looking salad. I will have to try this. I think I have a list as long as my arm now that I want to make from your blog! 🙂 This is peek time for ctrus around here, so nice we can get it local. I will have to pick up some pomelo. Do you have any recipes for using kumquats?

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    • Biren says

      I am glad to hear that you found many recipes on this blog that you would like to try. I know many of the dishes I cook are seasonal as I try to buy whatever is fresh and available at the stores at a given time. I was quite surprised myself at how well this salad turned out. Hubby had two servings even though pomelo on its own is not his favorite.

      Unfortunately I do not have a recipe for kumquats. It would be a nice challenge though to come up with something. 🙂

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  20. Shu han says

    believe it or not, i grew up in a chinese household, saw this every chinese new year BUT NEVER ATE IT BEFORE. it was just always on the altar to offer to the gods, and i think my aprents probably ate it after that, but it never interested me. i so wish I had, since it’s probably hard to get hold of it here in london. the salad looks yummy!

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  25. Julie M. says

    I’ve been seeing the Pomelo’s at Trader Joes, but I admit that I’ve never eaten one before. Now that I know they resemble a grapefruit, I’ll definitely be giving one a go. This salad look perfect!

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