It would seem, melon and melon, cut and eat, what other dishes? However, a wide variety of dishes can be prepared from this summer fruit, and not only sweet ones.
The homeland of melon is considered to be the territory from Central Asia to the Northern regions of the African continent, the Middle East. It is known that the melon was eaten as early as the 20th century BC. Since then, this plant has been learned to cultivate and many varieties of melon have been bred: Kolkhoz Woman, Pineapple, Torpedo, etc.
What is melon good for?
Melon - a storehouse of vitamins and nutrients - belongs to the Pumpkin family, but what the fruit is: a vegetable, fruit or berry, scientists and culinary experts argue to this day. Be that as it may, the sweet melon pulp contains vitamins A, C, groups B, E, P, as well as micro and macroelements: calcium, magnesium, iron, sodium, potassium.
Melon is a very nutritious food, while its calorie content is only 37 kcal per 100 g of product.
It is best to serve melon as an independent dish, for example, for breakfast, but it is also good in various salads. Melon salads can be sweet or not sweet.
give a combination of sweet melon with juicy watermelon and other berries, for example, blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, as well as peaches, apricots. You can sprinkle the melon fruit salad with ground almonds, sesame seeds, or coconut, and add a pinch of ground cinnamon. Eating cantaloupe with unsweetened foods is more exotic.
Take 200 g of melon pulp and cut into cubes or, if the fruit is firm enough, grate for Korean salads. On the same grater, grind one cucumber weighing 100 - 150 g. Peel one small onion weighing about 50 g and cut in half. You only need half an onion to make a melon and cucumber salad. It needs to be cut into very thin strips. Mix all prepared foods, add chopped herbs to taste. Put the salad in a sieve and remove excess liquid, salt and season with vegetable oil.
Melon salad with potatoes is prepared in the same way as in the previous recipe, but potatoes are added here. The tubers are cleaned, chopped on a Korean-style carrot grater, washed thoroughly with running water, squeezed and mixed with the rest of the products. Then, just like in the recipe for melon and cucumber salad, place the vegetables in a sieve and squeeze thoroughly to remove excess juice.
To prepare this salad, peeled and diced melon is mixed with boiled chicken, diced. You can add finely chopped greens, chopped onions in half rings.
The combination of melon and seafood, in particular shrimp, is very unusual. Combine boiled peeled shrimp with diced peeled melon, add green onions, salt a little to taste.
You can also make ice cream, jams, mousses, sweet soups from melons. In addition, cold soups are prepared from the melon, the melon is grilled and even baked in a pie.
