Melon with lime, mint and ginger

4 servings

10 minutes

A variety of flavors, where mint is the best place. The advantage of the recipe is that its sweetness can be varied - you just need to choose a less or more sweet melon.

Energy value per serving

• Calories: 109.5
• Proteins: 1.9g
• Fats: 0.8g
• Carbohydrates: 24.8g

Ingredients

• Lime: 1 pc
• Melon: 1 kg
• Fresh mint: 3 tbsp
• Sugar: 1 tsp
• Grated ginger: 1 tbsp
• Honey: 1 tbsp

Cooking steps

1. Remove all seeds and inedible parts from the melon. It's better to use a firm, unsweet melon like cantaloupe. If that's not available, take sweet Uzbek varieties, but don't add sugar.

   Required ingredients:

   • Melon: 1 kg

2. Scoop the melon flesh out of the skin using a teaspoon. There are special spoons for this purpose. They scoop the melon meat into geometrically perfect balls. But geometry is not the main thing in this salad.

   Required ingredients:

   • Melon: 1 kg

3. Place the melon pulp in a deep bowl, grate lime zest into it, and then squeeze lime juice (remember, zest comes before juice; grating squeezed lime is quite a task). Add chopped mint, grated ginger, sugar, and honey. Mix well. Let it sit in the fridge for ideally half an hour (if the melon is from the fridge, you can skip this step, though, of course, the ingredients will blend better over half an hour). Then serve.

   Required ingredients:

   • Lime: 1 piece
   • Fresh mint: 3 tablespoons
   • Grated ginger: 1 tablespoon
   • Sugar: 1 teaspoon
   • Honey: 1 tablespoon