Melon Salad With Chiles and Mint

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Pairing refreshing effect with savory ingredients specified arsenic herbs and peppers mightiness beryllium surprising, but if you effort it, beryllium alert that this crockery tin beryllium rather hot.

Working with caller chile peppers tin beryllium challenging for adjacent the astir experienced cooks. The capsaicin lipid from the seeds and ribs wrong tin sting for rather a portion if traces of it extremity up connected your hands and face, which is wherefore kid cooks should deterioration food-safe gloves for the task. Another mode to go: Sprinkle successful 1/8 spoon of crushed reddish capsicum flakes instead.

For champion flavor, the crockery tin beryllium refrigerated successful an airtight instrumentality for astatine slightest 1 hr and up to 3 hours.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 4 (makes 4 cups)

Juice from 2 limes (1/4 cup)
1 tiny greenish (serrano oregon jalapeno) chile pepper, seeded and minced (may substitute 1/8 spoon crushed reddish capsicum flakes)
4 cups melon balls oregon cubes (from 1 ample cantaloupe oregon honeydew oregon 1/2 tiny seedless watermelon)
10 caller mint leaves oregon basil leaves, chopped

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
70
Carbohydrates
18 g
Sodium
30 mg
Protein
1 g
Fiber
2 g
Sugar
15 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Republished with support from ChopChop magazine, a nonprofit quarterly mag astir cooking for families, disposable successful English and Spanish; adapted from a look successful "Cook Fight: 2 Cooks, 12 Challenges, 125 Recipes, an Epic Battle for Kitchen Dominance," by Kim Severson and Julia Moskin (HarperCollins, 2012).

Tested by Toni L. Sandys.

Published July 28, 2014

Updated March 15, 2026