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🍽️ Spicy Melon and Cucumber Salad

142 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

Ingredients

• 1 Galia melon (ca. 500g)
• 100 g oval red cherry tomatoes
• 120 g cucumber
• 1 red chili pepper
• 1 watercress
• chicory
• radicchio
• 3 tbsp white balsamic vinegar
• salt
• pepper (from the mill)
• 1 pinch sugar
• 1 dash lime juice
• 4 tbsp grape seed oil

Instructions

1. 1. Cut the melon in half.
2. 2. Remove the seeds with a spoon.
3. 3. Scoop out small balls from the flesh using a melon baller.
4. 4. Wash the tomatoes under running water.
5. 5. Trim off the hard stem ends of the tomatoes.
6. 6. Cut the tomatoes in half crosswise.
7. 7. Wash the cucumber under running water.
8. 8. Cut the cucumber into sticks about 6 cm long and 0.5 cm wide.
9. 9. Remove the stem end of the chili pepper.
10. 10. Slice the chili pepper into thin rings.
11. 11. Remove the seeds from the chili rings.
12. 12. Place the melon balls, tomatoes, cucumber sticks, and chili rings in a large bowl.
13. 13. Add the watercress leaves.
14. 14. Add the chicory leaves.
15. 15. Add the radicchio leaves.
16. 16. Whisk the sauce ingredients together in a separate bowl.
17. 17. Pour the sauce over the salad.
18. 18. Let the salad marinate for 10 minutes.

Nutrition per serving

• kcal: 142
• Protein: 1 g · Fett/Fat: 10 g · Carbs: 14 g