Fresh All Year Long!
This is sure to please all your family and friends and goes especially well at a barbecue.
Don't miss the flavors even at the end of summer. Make a salad that shout summer all year long!
As long as you can get watermelon in your area, this salad always brings your mind to a warmer place.
Watermelon Basil Salad Pin for later
Healthy Living
This is a healthy alternative with a subtle sweetness of summer all year long.
If you love watermelon, then this salad will be your new found favorite salad.
It's just bursting with fresh flavors and summer lingers on all year long.
It's always a plate full of colorful pretty fruit and greens!
Such a pretty salad to serve, healthy for your diet and shouts Summer time with these leafy greens and watermelon!
This is perfect for a brunch with your friends, they will be very impressed on how this presents itself.
This watermelon salad is not only colorful but this basil dressing is over the top fabulous and a healthy bonus.
Fresh and Light Flavors
If you want to eat healthy and lose some extra unwanted pounds, this is a easy tasty salad to start with.
Keeping hydrated all through warmer months is so important, add this to your diet.
Salads
I love salads, they are such a great resource to get a tasty amount of vitamins into your system.
If you're like me and hate drinking water, this is a great way to get more water and vitamin in your diet.
Eating watermelon is almost all water, so it's the perfect win win solution.
Calling all Watermelon Lovers!
I love to use the leftover dressing to brush it on top of roasted vegetables, add some grated cheese and broil the tops.
That just adds the perfect accompaniment this salad.
I chop my watermelon in small chunks.
I cubed it and then diced it smaller, take out the seeds if you don't like them.
I do buy seedless watermelon.
If you're a watermelon lover, then this Watermelon Basil Salad will be your new favorite salad for sure!
Try Some Of My Other Favorite Summer Recipes
Watermelon cocktail
Avocado Bean Salad
Butternut Squash and Arugula Salad
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American
Yield: 4

Watermelon Basil Salad
prep time: 1 hourcook time: 5 minstotal time: 1 hours and 5 mins
This is a delicious summer watermelon salad with all fresh ingredients
ingredients:
1 cup halved grape tomatoes
1/4 cup cubed mozzarella, provolone or feta
1 teaspoon fresh chopped parsley
1 teaspoon fresh chopped mint
1 small seedless cucumber cut into small pieces
salt pepper to taste
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon olive oil
4 pounds of seedless watermelon cubed
Garnish
Romaine full lettuce leaves
Fresh basil leaves
Mint sprigs
Basil Oil Dressing see below:
1 cup fresh basil leaves
3/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
instructions:
(Basil Oil Dressing):
Blanch the basil leaves in boiling water for one minute. Place in a bath of ice water. Drain.
Put the basil and olive oil in a food processor and blend till smooth. Pour this basil oil into a cheesecloth with a glass bowl underneath it. Let it drip. Do not squeeze cheese cloth. Let drip around 1 hour.
In the meantime make the salad. I line a bowl or individual plates with romaine lettuce set aside.
In another bowl toss the watermelon, cucumbers, tomatoes and cheese with olive oil and lemon juice. Transfer to your serving bowl or plates.
Drizzle with basil oil and more olive oil. Salt, pepper to taste.
Garnish with mint sprigs and basil leaves.
calories
125
125
fat (grams)
2
2
carbs (grams)
.1
.1
protein (grams)
4
4
sugar (grams)
2
2
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Dear Claudia, A perfect salad to enjoy at any meal my friend. xoxo Catherine
ReplyDeleteSimple, light and delicious!
ReplyDeleteThis would be a great addition to our Labor Day menu!!
ReplyDeleteThis is a great summer salad. I don't use watermelon like this nearly enough - saving!
ReplyDeleteWatermelon and basil is such a wonderful combination! Sadly, my basil didn't grow well this summer, but since I can find fresh basil at the grocery store I'm putting this one on my must-make list
ReplyDeleteI LOVE light salads. Great idea for my lunch. This is really very tasty! Perfectly!
ReplyDeleteI've never tried watermelon and basil or even cheese with watermelon yet. Have seen them often paired but one of these days I'm going to have to try.
ReplyDeleteThis is such a wonderful summer salad. Perfect at a picnic or eating al fresco. My daughter makes a wonderful one -- I remember I couldn't stop eating on it. The watermelon is so filling that you don't overeat on the heavier dishes. This is a fantastic recipe.
ReplyDeleteI just feel like having my summer days back. Watermelon are great for salads, juices, mock tails, cocktails.....everything. I love watermelon basil salad with feta. I need to try this salad without feta, i'm sure I won't complain.
ReplyDeleteI love watermelon and basil, this salad looks absolutely amazing! So fresh and clean, perfect for a summer afternoon snack.
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