This is such an awesome salad–I’ve used feta, but I think the pecorino would be great as well. The combination of mint and salt and melon. . .
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Addendum to aguas frescas
Browsing my favorite blogs, I found this recipe for watermelon aqua fresca with lime that those of you who are addicted to watermelon in hot weather might enjoy. The combination of watermelon and lime is good!
Cool pink things for summer
After the wonderful strawberry ice cream yesterday afternoon, I more “cool pink” for supper: watermelon with feta cheese and mint.
It’s right up there with beet soup for a refreshing summer meal or side dish. I probably should not even call it a salad: no dressing or anything except the natural juices. I’ve seen suggestions for dressings such as buttermilk/lime, but I’ve not tried that–have some buttermilk in the fridge so maybe I’ll taste it with that when I make more this afternoon.
There really is no recipe for this:
- watermelon, cut into pieces or cut with melon-baller. Use however much you think you might eat–I usually add some extra because I will usually eat more.
- mint–preferably spearmint (Kentucky Colonel is especially good), chopped medium or cut into chiffonade–several sprigs
- feta cheese–your favorite feta cheese, cut into small cubes or crumbled.
Toss the watermelon and the mint and let this chill in the refrigerator for about an hour. You want the mint and melon to “meld”–if you don’t do this, you get separate flavors of mint and melon (which is not bad either) instead of something like mintmelonmint. After this melding, add the feta cheese, and eat!
If the melon stands with the feta cheese, the texture of the melon becomes a bit soggy, presumable from the salt in the feta cheese, so it’s best made freshly. You can let the mint/melon mix stand in the fridge longer, though.
I suspect that other salty cheese could be substituted for the feta–e.g. pecorino or some of the Greek cheeses.
