An easy watermelon salad with mint to keep your cool this summer.

A Beautiful And Easy Salad For Those Hot Lazy Days. The Minty Coolness Balance The Sweetness Of The Watermelon.

This watermelon salad has mint and honey that is delicious and ridiculously cooling. Summer meals just got a little cooler.

Having a hard time looking for a refreshing salad in the summer? Look no further because this is the one you're missing. It is light and sweet. An amazing fruit salad for your summer heavier meals like BBQ, grilled meat, and fried chicken.

Grilling meat in the summer is like a religious practice around the world. The hot heat mixed with charcoal burning and tasty aromatic meat in the air is the definition of summer. Sometimes thinking of a salad next to these heavy summer meals can be a bit of a thinker, but don't worry we got you cover. This Watermelon and Mint salad is light, refreshing, healthy, and so delicious! I love pulling mint from the garden and mixing it up cubed watermelon. 

This recipe is cooling and easy to assemble when watermelon season is at its peak.

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How to Pick Your Watermelon

I was taught to give the watermelon a good hit to hear the echo in order to guess if there's a lot of water in the watermelon. But it doesn't always mean the watermelon is sweet.

First you have to look at the variety. Most of the time if the variety of the watermelon is sweet, your odds of eating a cold slice of sweet watermelon is very likely.

Some other ways of finding the right watermelon is the colour, even oval size, and weight. 

Do you want kids to help you with this salad? No problem! There's this great amazing tool for kids to cut watermelon. Try the Watermelon Cutter Knife. 

Why You Should Make This Salad

When watermelon season is in full bloom, it's great to find another way of eating it. This watermelon salad with mint is light and zesty. It is made with mint, lime juice, and honey. Sweet watermelon is great on it's own, but it is even better when you can turn it into a cold refreshing salad. 

Do you have mint in your garden and don't know how to use it? You can definitely add it here. 

Watermelon Salad with Balsamic

The recipe for this Sweet Watermelon salad with Mint calls for lime and mint. The flavour is very tangy and sweet. If your palette is more strong and wants more of a punch of flavour, you can always make watermelon salad with balsamic dressing.

Balsamic works very well with watermelon flavour. When I make the balsamic dressing for watermelon it is very simple. In a bowl I mix balsamic vinegar, olive oil, thyme and some salt. I mix it well until it is completely emulsified and do a quick drizzle onto of cold cubed watermelons. I also add the watermelon salad with basil. Basil and balsamic is magic.

The balsamic vinegar I love using is the Kirkland brand from Costco.

Salad with Protein

If you feel the salad is too light, you can always add feta cheese to give it more protein. Watermelon salad with feta and balsamic dressing is a heavier watermelon salad, but if that's something you're looking for it's okay. Balsamic vinegar is great for the end of the summer as watermelon season is closing. Watermelon salad with feta and balsamic is a great switch up if the lime and honey dressing gets boring.

Another ingredient to add with the watermelon salad and feta and balsamic is red onion. Watermelon salad with red onion and feta is a slightly spicer due to the red onion. Still taste great for people who likes onion in their salad. Red onion is probably one of my favourite types of onion to add on to fresh salad. 

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