Melon in a salad is no longer an exotic, but a very popular phenomenon. Since she is a relative of the cucumber, why not? Melon goes well with meat and poultry, wonderfully friends with cheese and eggs, gets a pleasant taste of bright spices and comes out just amazing in sweet dishes. Prepare dessert and snack salads with melon?
Salad with melon - general principles of cooking
You can take absolutely any melon for salads. Of course, it will be much more tasty with a ripe and fragrant vegetable (yes, it is a vegetable). But if it is too soft, then the pieces will not hold the shape, when stirred they will be washed, the salad will look like an incomprehensible mash.
Sweet salads with melon allow you to use all kinds of fruits and berries, they often add nuts, dried fruits. As a dressing, yogurts, juices, sour cream, cream are used. Melon goes well with ice cream. Small balls can be added to any dessert.
What is added to snack salads melons:
• ham, meat and poultry;
• seafood;
• cheese, cheese, eggs;
• vegetables, greens.
Mostly olive oil is used as a dressing, but sometimes there are variants with mayonnaise. Multifaceted sauces are very popular. Usually they are made from butter with lemon juice, mustard, honey. In snack salads actively add all sorts of nuts, seeds. Mint is honored. By the way, instead of fresh greens, you can take dried leaves.
Salad with melon and chicken
One of the most famous options for salad with melon. Someone once tried to replace it with a pineapple, and it turned out no worse than the world famous snack.
Ingredients
• 200 g melon pulp;
• 3 eggs;
• 300 g fillets;
• 140 g of mayonnaise;
• 2 tbsp. l nuts;
• spices;
• 80 grams of cheese.
Cooking
1. Put the fillet in a saucepan with water for flavor, throw a couple of peas of pepper, add laurel, boil until done, but not more than 25 minutes. If a chicken leg is used, then cook until soft.
2. In another saucepan, boil the hard boiled eggs. 3. Cool the fillet and eggs, cut into small cubes, but do not mix.
4. In the fillet add a full spoon of mayonnaise, pepper, stir and spread on the bottom of the salad bowl. This salad can be collected on a flat dish, but in deep dishes it is better soaked.
5. Cut into cubes peeled melon pulp, lay on top of chicken fillet. This layer does not lubricate.
6. Chopped eggs are lightly seasoned with salt, pepper, season with grated cheese, it is used here a little, stir and spread on the melon.
7. Liberally pour this layer with mayonnaise. We post all that remains.
8. Walnuts better fry in advance, the flavor will be better. Chop into pieces, sprinkle the salad.
Salad with melon, cheese and tomatoes
Another wonderful version of a cold, unsweetened melon salad. For its preparation, it is desirable to use cheese or other similar brine cheeses.
Ingredients
• 300 g melon pulp;
• large tomato;
• 50 g olives;
• 5 spoons of olive oil;
• 120 g cheese;
• 0.3 lemon;
• 50 grams of walnuts;
• 1 tsp. honey;
• salt and pepper;
• 0.5 tsp. mustard;
• greens, lettuce or Chinese cabbage.
Cooking
1. Combine olive oil with lemon juice. Add to them mustard and honey, pour a pinch of salt and a little black pepper. All carefully grind. If desired, you can immediately crumble some greens into the dressing, even if it is infused, it releases a fragrance into the oil.
2. Cut melon into neat cubes, pour into a large salad bowl.
3. Tomato, too, cut into cubes, but remove the watery entrails with seeds. If the tomato is small, then use a couple.
4. We take olives without stones. Just cut it in half. If you like brighter tastes, then you can take the green olives.
5. We cut the cheese cubes, send in the total mass.
6. Water all the products previously prepared dressing.
7. Stir in two spoons to avoid damaging the soft pieces.
8. Spread the lettuce leaves and the prepared snack on a flat dish.
9. Sprinkle with chopped walnuts on top. Also tasty is obtained with pine nuts. Serve salad immediately, it should not stand.
Sweet Melon Salad
A wonderful recipe for sweet dessert salad with melon. If there are no ingredients, you can exclude or replace.
Ingredients
• 200 grams of melon;
• peach;
• sour apple;
• 7-10 strawberries;
• 100 ml of any yogurt;
• 1-2 tablespoons of nuts;
• 1 tbsp. l honey;
• 0.3 tsp. cinnamon
Cooking
1. Cut into cubes peeled melon pulp, pour into a bowl.
2. Cut the peach. Also send in a bowl for melon.
3. If the apple has a hard rind, then it is better to remove it. Cut it into neat pieces. It is better to use sour fruit, as the other ingredients are sweet enough.
4. Melt the honey, you can put it in the microwave for 10 seconds.
5. Add honey and cinnamon to the yogurt, stir. For filling, you can use any fruit or classic white yogurt.
6. Add nuts and yogurt to the fruit, stir. Arrange in portions. It is very beautiful to serve such a dessert in high transparent wine glasses.
7. Cut the strawberries in halves, decorate the salad. Serve immediately, until the fruit is released juice.
Salad with melon and shrimp
Variant of exquisite salad, which is not only very tasty, but also incredibly useful. It uses white sesame seeds. By the way, olive oil can be replaced with sesame, the taste will not be worse.
Ingredients
• 200 grams of melon;
• 200 g shrimp;
• 1 tbsp. l sesame;
• 1 bunch of lettuce leaves;
• 1 tsp. balsamic vinegar;
• 2 tbsp. l oils.
Cooking
1. Boil the shrimp. It is fashionable to make the classic way in water or steamed. Cool, clean from the shell, do not forget to remove the intestinal dark vein that goes along the spine. The size of the shrimp does not matter.
2. Tear up lettuce leaves, throw in a bowl. You can use arugula, it also turns out delicious.
3. Cut the melon into small cubes, approximately one centimeter. Add to bowl.
4. Mix everything gently. Put in plates for serving.
5. Combine balsamic vinegar with oil. You can use lemon juice or apple cider vinegar.
6. Sprinkle the salad on top of the prepared dressing, sprinkle with sesame seeds.
Salad with melon and ham
For this salad is usually used Parma ham. This recipe was originally created by the great Jamie Oliver. Later it was changed, supplemented, adjusted to different tastes.
Ingredients
• 160 g of a mixture of salads (leaves);
• 50 g of olive oil;
• 160 g of ham;
• 300 grams of melon;
• 20 g of nuts;
• 50 g of honey;
• 30 grams of lemon juice.
Cooking
1. Ripe melon cut into neat cubes.
2. Rinse the lettuce leaves. Jamie Oliver recommends taking the mixture so that there are at least three types. Tear your hands.
3. Parma or any other ham cut into very thin slices, like lettuce leaves. Cutting pieces is not necessary.
4. Combine lettuce, melon and ham. Stir by hand, put on a flat dish.
5. Mix olive juice with honey, pour in olive oil, carefully rub the sauce until smooth. If necessary, add some salt. By the way, this salad is very tasty and in the spicy version, you can add a couple of pinch of cayenne pepper.
6. Pour over the top of the dressing products.
7. Sprinkle with pine nuts and immediately served to the table. According to Jamie, this salad should not stand.
Avocado melon salad
For this salad, avocados will be sliced, which is why you do not need to take too soft fruit. Let them be a little harsh.
Ingredients
• one small melon;
• two avocados;
• one orange;
• 3 tbsp. l olive oil;
• 50 g of any nuts;
• 5 mint leaves;
• pepper, salt.
Cooking
1. Cut the melon with elongated pieces, but not too small. For now, put it in a big bowl.
2. Scald the orange, remove the zest from half, chop. Or we take at once a fine grater and we rub a dried peel.
3. Cut the citrus in half, squeeze the juice from one part, mix it with the zest, add olive oil.
4. Chop finely mint, lay in the gas station. Pepper and salt.
5. Fry any nuts in a pan, if they are not cedar. They do not need to fry. You can use pumpkin seeds, with them, too tasty.
6. Cut the avocado into long strips, combine with pumpkin. 7. Pour the salad with orange dressing, sprinkle with roasted nuts. For decoration, you can use whole mint leaves.
Salad with melon and pumpkin
Another sweet version of melon salad, which can be served as a dessert or a light snack. Pumpkin is desirable to use table varieties. It is sweet and aromatic. Instead of seeds, you can take any nuts.
Ingredients
• 150 grams of melon;
• 150 g pumpkin;
• 1 apple;
• 1 sprig of mint;
• 0.5 lemon;
• 1 tbsp. l pumpkin seeds;
• 20 g of liquid honey.
Cooking
1. Cut pumpkin and melon into small cubes, throw in a salad bowl.
2. Peel the apple, chop and add to the total mass.
3. Chop a sprig of mint finely, leave a couple of whole leaves for decoration.
4. Add lemon juice and liquid honey to the mint, grind.
5. Fill the pumpkin salad with honey mixture, stir.
6. Sprinkle the top with pumpkin seeds. You can pre-fry them slightly in a griddle to get a more pronounced taste.
Melon Salad - Tips and Tricks
• Sesame, nuts, pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds have a different taste, but in almost all salads they can be replaced with each other. Just do not forget to pre-fry to enhance the flavor.
• If a sweet salad is prepared, then you can add a little vanilla or vanilla sugar to the dressing. He, like cinnamon, goes well with melon.
• If you need to prepare a salad in advance, the chopped products do not pour over the dressing. Otherwise, the melon and other fresh ingredients will release the juice.
