Ready to make your tastebuds tingle? This easy orange grapefruit citrus salsa recipe will tantalize your senses and have you ready for seconds in just minutes! Perfect for adding to fish and tacos!
This easy-to-follow recipe guarantees the perfect balance of sweet and tangy flavors! This one is a favorite of mine in the summer. It is the best fruit salsa for fish and pork and pairs well with baked Chilean sea bass, foil baked cod fish, cod fish tacos, and slow cooker pork tacos. You'll also love it as an extra side with avocado fish taco sauce and this baked tortilla chips recipe.
All you need is 20 minutes, a cutting board and knife, and fresh fruits and vegetables!
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What to love about this recipe
- This citrus-inspired salsa is easy to make and the perfect way to add some zing to your next taco night and seafood dinner or enjoy as an appetizer with chips. It's also fantastic over this detox citrus salad.
- Comes together quickly in 20 minutes!
- A wonderful way to get fresh vitamin C and immunity-boosting nutrients like in a wellness shot!
Key ingredients
This fantastic fresh orange citrus salsa is a combination of oranges, grapefruit, mango, pineapple with sweet peppers and onions for crunch! Here is everything you need to get started.
- oranges - For this sweet and refreshing orange fruit, you can use navel oranges, blood oranges, or mandarin oranges.
See the below recipe card for quantities.
Tip for cutting citrus fruit
Very importantly, citrus fruit is fibrous and has membranes that hold the fruit together into segments or sections. When you cut citrus fruit into citrus salsa, you want to take the membrane sections off.
- Cut away the skin of the fruit with a knife to remove the pulp.
- With the knife, cut the fruit in-between the segment by the membrane and using your hands or knife remove the membrane.
- Once the membrane is removed then cut the slice the fruit into mini pieces.
Make it your own
Citrus salsa is typically made with grapefruit and oranges and you can also add avocado, jalapeno, or beets to the mix.
Recipe instructions
Here are our step-by-step instructions how to make this epic citrus salsa! See the recipe card for full details.
Step 1 (image 1): Cut and prepare the vegetables and fruit, cutting away the membrane of the oranges and grapefruits before dicing.
Step 2 (image 2): In a mixing bowl and add the ingredients together. Mix well and serve right away or within 1 day for the best flavor.
Storage
Use your fresh citrus salsa right away or within 3 days for the best flavor. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
Recipe FAQs
Many salsa recipes like canned plum salsa has pectin or lemon and lime juice to help preserve and add acidity to salsa. You only need fresh lime juice here with orange juice and honey for the delicious flavor.
If the salsa is bland you always add a dash of salt and splash of lime juice. Since grapefruit is bitter you can add up to one more tablespoon of honey to citrus salsa.
Lime juice helps to preserve salsa, add flavor without extra salt, and balances out pH levels and prevents bacteria from growing quickly.
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Citrus Salsa Recipe
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Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 oranges peeled, sectioned, and cut into bite-size
- 2 grapefruits peeled, sectioned, and cut into bite-size
- ½ cup diced pineapple
- ½ cup diced fresh mango
- ¼ cup diced red bell pepper end cut off, core and seeds removed and diced
- ¼ cup diced red onion
- ¼ cup chopped fresh cilantro
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 2 tablespoons orange juice
- 1 tablespoon lime juice seeded and minced
- few leaves of fresh mint broken into pieces
Instructions
- Prepare the vegetables by prepping the grapefruit and oranges and chopping the vegetables. Using a knife, cut off the skin and rind of the grapefruit and oranges. Cut the fruit in half and in-between the membrane - discarding the membrane. Cut the slice into mini pieces.
- In a medium-size bowl, combine the diced oranges, grapefruit, pineapple, mango, red bell pepper, onion, cilantro, honey, orange juice, lime juice and mint. Mix to combine and enjoy right away or within 3 days.
Notes
- Cut away the skin of the fruit with a knife to remove the pulp.
- With the knife, cut the fruit in-between the segment by the membrane and using your hands or knife remove the membrane.
- Once the membrane is removed then cut the slice into mini pieces.
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