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Melon salad with sunflower seeds

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Ingredients for 8 servings:

  • 1 small iceberg lettuce
  • 1 honeydew melon(s)
  • 1 cucumber(s)
  • 250 g green grapes, seedless
  • 2 spring onions
  • ½ bunch chives
  • 4 tbsp vinegar, e.g. apple cider vinegar
  • 5 tbsp oil, e.g. sunflower oil
  • 2 tbsp lemon juice
  • 1 pinch(s) of sugar
  • 4 tbsp jam (blackberry jam)
  • Salt
  • Pepper, freshly ground
  • 3 tbsp sunflower seeds, roasted, for sprinkling

Instructions

Working time approx. 30 minutes; Total time approx. 30 minutes

Quarter the lettuce and cut into thin strips. Halve the melon, remove the seeds, and scoop out small balls. Wash the cucumber, halve it lengthwise, and remove the seeds. Cut the cucumber halves into thin slices. Trim, wash, and thinly slice the spring onions and chives. Combine the lettuce, melon, cucumber, halved grapes, leek, and chives. For the dressing, whisk together the vinegar, oil, lemon juice, blackberry jam, pepper, sugar, and salt and drizzle over the salad. Sprinkle with toasted sunflower seeds before serving.

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Written by John Myers

Professional Chef with 29 years of industry experience at the highest levels. Restaurant owner. Beverage Director with experience creating world-class nationally recognized cocktail programs. Food writer with a distinctive Chef-driven voice and point of view.

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