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    Home / Breakfast and Brunch Recipes / A Mouthwatering Watermelon Salad with Feta Cheese

    Aug 25, 2014 · Last Updated: Oct 18, 2021

    A Mouthwatering Watermelon Salad with Feta Cheese

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    Watermelon! I love watermelons! Just feeling that hollow *thump* when I pat a ripe watermelon makes me salivate.

    All summer, we've been eating watermelons just one after another. With no A/C in our flat (or most anywhere in London), watermelons are the quickest way to cool off. During the hottest weeks, when the summer heat made make me so lazy that I wouldn't even want to expend any energy to pick out the seeds to eat the watermelon, I would juice the entire thing and just sip it out of a straw. Ah, sounds crazy, but it feels like autumn is already here in London. I'm really going to miss watermelons.

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    Because they are just so delicious as is, it took me a while to convince myself that I should try to do something with a watermelon. Could anything make my watermelon taste better than it does in its simple and pure form? Seeing Ottolenghi's recipe for a watermelon salad in his cookbook, Plenty: Vibrant Vegetable Recipes, finally convinced me. If Ottolenghi makes watermelon salad, then okay, I guess could at least give it a try.

    One evening when we invited some friends over for dinner, I decided to plate up some watermelon. Nervously, I sprinkled on the purple onions, crumbled on the feta cheese and placed on some basil pickings from my windowsill garden. The real commitment came when I had to pour on the olive oil and grind black pepper over it all. Yes, all over the deliciously crisp and sweet watermelon. At that point, there was no turning back!

    Watermelon Salad | theWorktop.com

    To my surprise, the watermelon salad was so refreshing! Was it better than just cubed watermelon straight from the fridge? I'm not so sure. Was it better than juiced watermelon? Well, I'm not sure anything could beat that. But it was a very quick and easy salad that fed 5 people and required very minimal effort.

    And it was visually stunning - the red watermelon, the purple onions, the green basil, the yellow olive oil, the black pepper, and the stark white feta cheese. All of the colors popped out against one another, and it was definitely beautiful when I set the watermelon salad in the middle of the dining table. And at the end of the meal, there was only once piece of watermelon left. Either my friends actually enjoyed it, or they were too polite to say anything different. You can never tell with the British, anyway.

    Anyone else make watermelon salad before? What did you think?

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    A Mouthwatering Watermelon Salad with Feta Cheese

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    Serves: 4
    Prep: 15 minutes mins
    Total: 15 minutes mins
    Beautiful watermelon and feta salad. Perfect for picnics.

    Ingredients

    • 6 cups large chunks of watermelon
    • 3.5 ounces feta cheese - sliced or crumbled into chunks
    • 1 handful basil leaves
    • ¼ medium red onion - sliced very thinly
    • generous drizzle of olive oil
    • dash of coarse sea salt
    • dash of coarse ground pepper
    US Customary - Metric

    Instructions

    • On a large platter, arrange the watermelon chunks, feta, red onion and basil. Immediately before serving, drizzle olive oil over the salad, and sprinkle a pinch of coarse sea salt and a pinch of coarse ground black pepper.
    Course: Salads and Vegetables
    Author: The Worktop
    Cal : 134kcal
    Note: Nutrition information is a rough estimate.
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    By Tina Jui
    Filed Under: Breakfast and Brunch Recipes, Gluten Free, No Egg, Quick and Easy Brunches, Salads and Vegetables, Summer Breakfast Recipes, VegetarianTags: fruits, olive oil, salads

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    A breakfast lover and food blogger. Tina develops everyday breakfast recipes on The Worktop, and writes about all things related to breakfast and brunch. Read more about Tina Jui or drop an email to say hi.

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    1. Teresa Jui says

      August 28, 2014 at 4:32 am

      I like the water melon salad. I am going to make this salad for my friends next weekends. Is there anything I can substitute
      for feta?

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    2. Thalia @ butter and brioche says

      August 25, 2014 at 10:51 pm

      love watermelon and feta together, it's sounds like such an odd flavour combination but it tastes so good! definitely need to recreate this salad recipe. looks delicious.

      Reply
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