Watermelon is non something nosotros genuinely hollo back of equally having a 'season'. Yes, it is i of the fruits that nosotros associate alongside Summer, but it is something inwards our 12 calendar month a yr supermarket civilization that nosotros e'er run into equally readily available. I'll direct identify the sermon on seasonality short, past times precisely telling you lot that you'll acquire the really best tasting watermelons if you lot purchase them inwards season, inwards July as well as August. Last calendar month I gave you lot this recipe inspired past times Gin & Watermelon Juice alongside Fresh Basil, as well as at nowadays I desire to acquaint you lot alongside such a delicious, flavourful, tardily as well as lettuce costless salad which makes for the perfect high Summer barbecue accompaniment. (I similar it alongside my Skinny Sticky Storecupboard Barbecue Chicken!)
Putting fresh watermelon, some classify of mild, creamy cheese as well as fresh mint together inwards a salad is zilch new. Just search 'Watermelon Salad' on Pinterest as well as you'll come upward up alongside everyones variation on a theme. However, I precisely had to portion my version alongside you lot all, subsequently I precisely threw what I had inwards the refrigerator together for dejeuner i twenty-four hr catamenia when I was stuck for ideas. Sometimes it is the simplest of dishes that genuinely permit the highest character factor sing that are best, particularly inwards the Summer heat when you lot genuinely don't experience similar cooking much.
This salad volition serve ii equally a side alongside some classify of barbecued meat, or precisely you lot equally a lunchtime salad. I genuinely meant it when I said purchase the really best character ingredients you lot tin post away detect or afford. The 3 large ones hither are the bounding main tabular array salt you're dressing your watermelon alongside (I run Breton Fleur de Sel I purchase inwards Brittany), the Extra Virgin Olive Oil you're drizzling the whole matter alongside (a expert character olive crude oil for dressing salads is pretty criterion past times now, right?) as well as your mozzarella. As a full general rule, you lot acquire amend mozzarella from delis as well as dedicated cheese shops (I bring to closed my eyes when I pay equally it is closed to £7 a ball, but if you're inwards London I adore the mozzarella from Neal's Yard Dairy) but you lot tin post away nevertheless acquire pretty corking cheeses, both imported as well as made from British buffalo milk inwards tubs inwards the supermarket. (Oh, as well as equally far equally my serving dish is concerned, how did I arrive equally far equally terminal calendar week without purchasing a slice of Falcon Enamelware?)
- Small Handful Pine Nuts
- 1/4 of a Giant Watermelon
- Fleur de Sel (or some other expert quality) Sea Salt
- 4-5 Sprigs Fresh Mint
- 15-20 Buffalo Mozzarella Pearls
- Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- Freshly Ground Black Pepper
First, toast the pino nuts. You tin post away practise this inwards a hot oven on a baking tray, but you lot bring to scout them really carefully equally they tin post away plough inwards an instant. I prefer to toast them inwards a modest frying pan over a medium estrus where I tin post away direct identify an middle on them as well as toss them closed to spell they are toasting without having to opened upward as well as closed an oven door. Once they are nutty as well as golden brown, take them straight off from the pan or baking tray as well as thence they don't deport on toasting. Set aside.
Cube the watermelon into manageable, seize alongside teeth size chunks that are precisely exclusively slightly bigger than your mozzarella pearls. Spread across your chopping board, as well as sprinkle evenly alongside a twosome of pinches of bounding main salt. Toss together alongside the mozzarella pearls, as well as adapt inwards a serving dish.
Chiffonade the leaves of the fresh mint (the Food Network has a corking guide on how to chiffonade - it is genuinely really simple, you lot precisely acquire to acquire the advert of a fancy novel French grooming technique!) as well as sprinkle generously over the salad. Sprinkle alongside the toasted pino nuts, as well as drizzle generously alongside olive oil. Finish alongside a expert few grinds of dark pepper, as well as serve at room temperature.
If you're subsequently whatever to a greater extent than sides to become alongside barbecued meats that are chock amount of fruit as well as veggies, but don't run salad leaves equally a base, why non drive my Panzanella Salad (great for using upward leftover hunks of homemade bread), my Purple Cabbage Slaw alongside Cucumber as well as Dill or this Asian Butter Bean Salad?