This simple salad with fruit and a quick lemon dressing melds so perfectly together. It constructs a total flavour explosion. It definitely has bite. It’s smooth, it’s crunchy, it’s fresh, and it lets your senses know that we’re into full summer. I just love the yin and the yang of the flavours and the textures it yields. Serve it as a side or indulge as a snack. It’s so good!
Watermelon Salad is an unexpected concoction of watermelon, mint, feta cheese, and rocket. This salad is surprisingly glorious in every way, blending sweet and savoury in one mouth-watering bite.
Watermelon is my favourite summer fruit. I eat it most days. I love eating it plain, cut up in cubes, or in a salad.
This Watermelon Feta Salad is the only fruit salad I eat because it is so fresh and so easy to make. The flavour combination might sound odd at first, but you’ve got to trust me here, it is a TOTAL WINNER! It is the perfect salad for a hot summer’s day and a fun way to jazz up everyone’s favourite summer fruit.
You can serve this light and refreshing watermelon salad alongside any summer meal. Think al fresco. It is the ideal side dish to bring to a summer party, or braai/barbecue. The sweet and salty combo will certainly impress your friends and family and that pop of mint makes the salad extra special and flavoursome.
WATERMELON, ROCKET & FETA SALAD
Ingredients
- 6 cups cubed watermelon
- 1 pkt rocket, chopped
- ½ cup feta cheese, crumbled
- ⅓ cup fresh mint leaves, chopped
- juice and zest of 1 lemon
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- Salt and pepper
Instructions
- In a large clean bowl, pour in the olive oil
- Add in the zest of 1 lemon and squeeze the juice of half the lemon.
- Chop mint and and add to the vinaigrette.
- Stir and add in the watermelon cubes.
- Mix together.
- Crumble feta over.
- Chop the rocket roughly and toss into salad.
- Squeeze the juice of the other half lemon.
- Add salt and freshly ground pepper.
- Toss together.
- Serve immediately.
