Melon is a sweet juicy aromatic fruit, which is also called a sweet vegetable. Because it is a relative of pumpkin, squash and cucumber. Although it doesn’t taste even close to any of the vegetables.
However, it often happens that the melon is unsweetened, hard, without a strong aroma and practically inedible. No one will want to eat this, and no one will raise their hand to throw away an unspoiled product. In this case, you can get out of the situation by preparing some tasty treat from the unsweetened fruit.
What to cook from unripe and unsweetened melon? The choice of dishes is quite extensive, because... the fruit goes well with almost all vegetables, fruits, seafood, cheese, chicken, ham and other products. Therefore, it is perfect for preparing salads, appetizers, and soups.
Unsweetened melon will turn out very tasty if you marinate it and serve it with poultry or meat.
Substandard fruit can serve as an excellent filling for a sweet pie or charlotte. Next, let's look at a few simple recipes.
Charlotte with melon
Unsweetened melon makes very tasty baked goods. Charlotte with this fruit will not be inferior in taste to the more familiar apple charlotte. The pie will turn out just as juicy, tender, and aromatic.
Ingredients for cooking:
- 150 gr. melon pulp;
- 1 pinch of salt;
- 0.5 tbsp. granulated sugar;
- 3 fresh eggs;
- 145 gr. wheat flour (1 tbsp for sprinkling);
- 0.5 tsp soda;
- 0.5 tbsp. butter.
Cooking process:
We start cooking by preparing the dough. To do this, beat the eggs and sugar with a mixer. After 5-6 minutes the mass will become fluffy.
Add salt, soda, and sifted flour to the egg base. Gently fold the dry ingredients into the dough with a spatula.
Grease a mold with a diameter of 18 cm with butter, sprinkle with 1 tbsp. flour. Pour the dough into the mold, place the peeled and cut into pieces melon on top.
Bake the charlotte in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees, for about half an hour.
Place on a plate, cool, and serve with tea.
Dessert
Unsweetened melon can be turned into edible by preparing some kind of melon dessert from it. Substandard pumpkin will make an excellent pie filling or delicious jam. It is suitable for preparing various sauces and salads.
Charlotte
Many people are accustomed to preparing charlotte with apples. And few people know that you can make changes to the classic pie recipe by preparing it from unsweetened melon.
The dough for melon charlotte is prepared in the usual way:
- Beat 3 eggs and 100 g of sugar with a whisk or mixer.
- Pour in a glass of kefir and stir.
- Add a bag of vanillin, a teaspoon of baking powder, one and a half cups of flour, and knead thoroughly.
Pour the dough into a greased pan and place pieces of pumpkin on top.
Attention! Apples have a much harder consistency, so they are placed on the bottom. Melon is much softer and is recommended to be placed on top of the dough.
Bake the melon pie for about 30 minutes, preheating the oven to 200°C. The top of the charlotte can be sprinkled with cinnamon or powdered sugar and decorated with melon balls. The finished charlotte is cut into pieces and served with tea or coffee.
With nuts and lemon
When thinking about what to make from unsweetened melon, fruit salad immediately comes to mind.
To prepare it you only need 3 ingredients: melon, walnuts, lemon.
Cooking process:
- Pumpkin is cut into small slices;
- Chopped nuts are fried in a frying pan;
- Juice is squeezed out of the lemon;
- Nuts are mixed with melon pieces and seasoned with lemon juice.
For your information! Lemon juice helps the product retain its color.
If desired, you can add other fruits to the salad: apples, pears, peaches, plums, grapes. A mixture of olive oil with lemon juice, salt and pepper is suitable as a dressing for such fruit mass.
Grilled in honey-mint sauce
A non-standard dessert made from unsweetened pumpkin will be a wonderful surprise for loved ones. It will come in especially handy at a picnic.
The recipe for a dish made from unripe melon is very simple; its preparation takes no more than 10-15 minutes.
Products you will need:
- butter – 100-150 g;
- honey – 0.5 cups;
- a few sprigs of mint.
Dissolve butter and honey in a saucepan, add chopped mint and mix. Lubricate the melon slices with the resulting mixture and fry them on the grill for about 4-5 minutes.
During frying, the pumpkin is periodically poured with sauce. Anyone will love this sweet, aromatic baked melon dish.
Salad with cucumber and melon
You and your loved ones will surely enjoy the delicate taste of this dish, and it is very easy to prepare:
- Cut one melon in half and remove the pulp from one part.
- Peel one cucumber and cut it into half rings.
- For dressing, mix 150 grams of natural yogurt, a tablespoon of lemon juice and two tablespoons of olive oil. Add salt and pepper to the sauce to taste.
- Mix melon pulp, chopped cucumber and yogurt dressing.
- Transfer the salad to the empty melon half and garnish with cucumber slices and radish or carrot roses.
With just two ingredients, this creative salad will impress and delight your guests.
We will be glad if you like the recipes collected in this article. Now that you know, you should not have any difficulty in this matter. Surprise your loved ones with delicious dishes and try new recipes more often.
Frozen treat
If you look through cooking manuals and pay attention to melon dishes, the soup recipe will immediately catch your eye. Of course, because it slightly violates the basic generally accepted norms. Most people think of soup as a liquid dish prepared by boiling its ingredients. In this case it is a sweet aromatic mixture. To prepare such an unusual “first” you will need 1 small melon, 0.5 liters of champagne, a glass of peach juice, pumpkin seeds and a few mint leaves.
You can prepare the soup as follows:
- Cut the melon pulp into small pieces and place them in a blender. Send juice and champagne there.
- Beat the mixture of products into a homogeneous mass reminiscent of sour cream.
- Pour the mixture into an empty container and place it in the refrigerator for a short time.
- Pour the cooled mixture into a plate and garnish with herbs and seeds.
For greater effect, you can use another melon instead of a regular plate. And to do this, you need to cut it in half and free each part from the core and seeds using a regular tablespoon.
Of course, melon is good on its own. But when you want something new and unusual, this sweet fruit can become part of incredibly tasty dishes. Shall we try to cook?
Melon in a curd cloud
Personally for fermented milk souls - an original dessert made from cottage cheese, melon and carrots.
Knead a glass of fresh cottage cheese thoroughly with a fork, add 3 tbsp. l. sour cream and mix until smooth. Grate fresh carrots on a fine grater, mix with 1 tbsp. l. honey and add to the curd mass. All that remains is to cut a large slice from the melon, peel it, cut it into cubes and combine with cottage cheese. Before serving, you can slightly cool the dessert, place it in bowls and garnish with mint leaves. The ripe sunny melon of the day is beautiful in all its guises. The main thing is to have time to enjoy its delicate sweetness and recharge with the energy of summer.
Salads
It tastes very well with other products in the salad. Use yogurt, lemon juice and honey as the sauce. You can mix these ingredients.
Salad with banana and grapes
Cut the melon and banana into small pieces. Mix a little honey, kefir and lemon juice. Pour in the ingredients and stir.
Sprinkle with chopped walnuts and grape halves. Remove the grains from the berries first.
Salad with cheese
The yellow beauty goes well with cheese and the recipe above is proof of this. Cut the melon and cucumber into small pieces.
The cubes should be the same size. Cut Feta cheese into cubes. You can take cottage cheese and mash it with a fork. Cut the basil into strips.
Combine everything, add salt and pepper. Stir, pour olive oil. There should be as much melon as cheese and cucumber combined.
Melon with honey
By combining melon, lime juice and honey you can get a wonderful dish. Cut the vegetable into small pieces or cut into circles and place in the refrigerator. Pour boiling water over the lime, dry, separate the zest and squeeze out the juice. Form the dish. First, place the melon, pour honey and juice, sprinkle with zest. Everything is a finished dish in front of you.
Sweet canning
Melon jam is one of the options for numerous desserts. Among other things, this is also a way to prepare a unique and healthy product for the winter. And in order to expand the assortment list, in addition to the main components, apples, bananas, watermelon, lemons, oranges and even vodka are added to the mixture during the cooking process. So, we bring to your attention one of the many options. Cooking can be done in different ways. One of them can be considered using a specific example. You will need the following initial ingredients: for 1 kilogram of melon pulp, 0.5 kilograms of sugar and apples, as well as a teaspoon of pre-grated lemon zest.
Let's start cooking:
- Grind the melon into a puree using a blender.
- Place the product in a basin (or pan), add sugar and cook over low heat until the resulting sweet mixture resembles fresh honey. During cooking, you must remember to skim off the foam all the time.
- Peel and core the apples, cut into arbitrary cubes and place in a bowl with the main product. You need to wait until the mixture boils.
- Add the zest, boil for another 5 minutes and you can put it in jars.
You can use a variety of fruits in place of apples in this recipe. For example, pears. And for a more pronounced piquant taste, you can add cinnamon and chopped mint leaves at the end of cooking.
Melon is not sweet - what to cook? 5 simple and delicious recipes
Melon is a healthy and nutritious food product.
When consumed regularly, it has a beneficial effect on the body: removes waste and toxins, relieves swelling, normalizes the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract, and strengthens the immune system.
During the ripening season, melon is usually eaten raw: cut into slices, without peel. To increase the preservation of the fruit, the fruit pulp is dried, dried, and processed into jam.
Melon jam is considered a traditional dessert. It is consumed as an independent sweet product, served with cottage cheese, pancakes, pancakes, and used as a filling for pies and cakes. Unripe melon fruits are ideal for harvesting. From the article you will learn the features of making jam for the winter from unripe melon, recipe options, and what other products you can combine it with.
How to choose?
Melon is a soft food. In order to select the ripest and most delicious vegetable from the abundance, you can’t knock on the peel. This trick only works with watermelon. How to determine the ripeness of a melon?
When buying a beautiful fruit, all the way you imagine and dream about how you will now enjoy this delicious product. It's a shame when the fruit turns out to be overripe or still green. The tips below will help you make the right choice:
- This easily wounded vegetable quickly deteriorates if the peel is damaged or hit. Before buying a product, you must make sure that there are no signs of impact, the crust is not cracked during transportation, and there are no external visible defects.
- Touch the product; it should not have any soft spots.
- You should not buy chopped melon. It deteriorates very quickly, and there is no guarantee that clean tools were used when cutting.
- When choosing, give preference to fruits that have a certificate confirming their quality.
- The first thing you should pay attention to is the aroma. Melon is one of those products that leaves a delicious trail around itself. When you bring the product closer to your face, you will definitely smell the aroma of vanilla, pear or pineapple. This is exactly what you need.
- Pay attention to the tail of the product. Through it, at one time, the melon received all its nutrients and substances. If it is thick and already dried out, it means that the vegetable is ripe and all the necessary taste qualities have been formed.
- On the opposite side of the tail there is a spot where it all began, and where the flower was previously attached. To the touch, the peel in this place should be soft and elastic.
There is another proven method: consult with the seller. If you are a regular buyer, and the seller values his reputation, they will certainly choose the best and sweetest berry for you. Verified. They are the best at understanding the product.
How to choose a ripe watermelon - read here.
How long can cut melon last in the refrigerator?
Melon is one of those foods that is best consumed immediately. For example, no one will put a half-eaten apple or a bitten pear into the refrigerator. When stored in a cut state, it becomes lethargic, loses its aroma, but acquires a new smell - from the refrigerator.
If it is not possible to eat the entire vegetable at once, store the product in the refrigerator for no more than a day. In this case, the cut should be covered with film. It should be noted that it is better to store whole melon in a cool, ventilated area outside the refrigerator.
Why is it bitter?
There are several reasons why the fruit suddenly developed bitterness. Taste depends on the soil, fertilizers used and even the variety. Yes, yes, there are bitter varieties of melons, they are used in an unripe state in cooking and are considered a real boon for diabetics who depend on insulin injections.
In addition, bitterness is imparted to the fruit by fermentation products. Experts will help determine the cause. And the consumer should not risk their health. The taste of the product is not satisfactory, in this case it is better to refuse melon.
Recipe 1. The classic way to make melon jam
If you prepare this wonderful jam correctly according to the recipe given below, it will definitely become your favorite. When finished, it has a beautiful amber color. This is simply a divine delicacy with an incredibly pleasant aroma and delicate taste. It is very simple and easy to prepare. A beginner housewife can handle this task.
Ingredients:
- sweet fresh melon pulp – 1.5 kg;
- sugar – 0.9 kg.
Step-by-step preparation steps:
- Wash the melon.
- Peel the melon and completely remove all seeds.
- Cut the pulp into small cubes and place in a deep bowl.
- Cover the prepared melon with sugar and leave for half an hour. During this time, the melon will give juice.
- Transfer the entire contents from the bowl into a basin/pan where the jam will be prepared.
- Place the dishes with the food prepared for cooking on the lowest heat.
- Bring the jam to a boil and turn off the heat, cover the jam with a lid that fits tightly to the pan and let it cool. It takes about 4 hours.
- Put the prepared jam back on the slowest heat and bring it to a boil.
- Cook it for about 5 minutes, periodically crushing the melon pieces with a spoon and at the same time stirring the jam. In this case, it will become much more aromatic and more fragrant.
- Repeat the procedure from step 7 to step 9 2 more times.
- Transfer the cooked jam into clean, dry, sterilized jars and seal them while hot with suitable lids.
Refreshing pleasure
It is worth noting that it is very easy to prepare some interesting dish from melon. Even a child can do this. Take, for example, the melon-lemon smoothie. The main components are already listed in the title. To prepare you will need 0.5 kilograms of melon pulp, 1 lemon and 0.1 kilograms of sugar.
The dish is prepared as follows:
- First, you need to cut the melon into cubes and squeeze the juice out of the lemon.
- Place all the ingredients according to the recipe in a blender and beat well until a stable, homogeneous mass is formed.
After this, the smoothie can be poured into glasses and drunk with pleasure. It is worth noting that the drink will be noticeably tastier if the melon is chosen correctly. It should be as ripe, tender and aromatic as possible. Lemon, in turn, adds piquancy to the drink and allows you to quench your thirst well. This saves many men at the beginning of the work week after a hectic weekend. Nothing restores lost strength like a glass of aromatic, freshly prepared smoothie.
Cottage cheese casserole with melon
Ingredients:
- 500 g grated cottage cheese;
- 4 tbsp. semolina;
- 2 chicken eggs;
- ½ melon fruit;
- 50 g butter;
- 1 tbsp. Sahara;
- 1 tbsp. l. chopped nuts;
- 1 pinch of salt;
- 1 tsp baking powder.
Preparation:
Grind the curd thoroughly. Peel the melon and cut it into medium cubes.
Beat the eggs until foamy, add sugar, salt and baking powder, mix everything again. Place cottage cheese into the resulting mass and mix all the ingredients again, add semolina and nuts. Melt the butter and pour 1/3 of it into the curd mass, mix everything thoroughly. Take one large baking dish or several small ones and grease the inside with the remaining butter. Place the curd mixture in the molds, smooth it out, and place the chopped melon on top. Place the molds in an oven preheated to 180 degrees and cook the casserole for 30-40 minutes.
Melon lemonade
5PH/Depositphotos.com Melon itself quenches thirst quite well, but this lemonade does it even better. Prepare it to cool down on a hot summer day.
Ingredients
- 1 ripe melon (1.5–2 kg);
- 3 glasses of water (can be lightly carbonated);
- 2 teaspoons freshly squeezed lime juice;
- 2 teaspoons sugar;
- ice.
Preparation
Any type of melon is suitable for this recipe, as long as it is juicy and sweet. Whisk the melon pulp, lime juice (lemon juice will also work, just in a little more quantity) and sugar in a blender. Dilute the resulting puree with water and mix thoroughly again.
Cool, pour into glasses, add ice and enjoy! And to make the taste of lemonade or any melon cocktail even more intense, use melon ice rather than regular ice. It's very easy to make. You need to grind the melon pulp into puree and freeze in ice trays (at least two hours).
Recipes for the little ones
Many people like frozen foods as dessert. And the children are simply delighted with them. Such dishes can confidently include sorbet or, as it is also called, sherbet. It occupies a worthy place in the culinary section “Melon Recipes”. Basically, sorbet is frozen sweet water to which fruit puree or juice has been added for flavor. If the dish is intended for adults, you can add liquor or wine. To prepare the simplest version of sorbet, you will need a medium-sized melon, as well as the juice of half a lemon (or lime) and 100 grams of sugar.
It should be prepared in 3 stages:
- Preparation of products. The melon must be peeled and seeded, and then cut into cubes. Squeeze juice from citrus.
- Place the products in a blender and beat thoroughly. Pour the resulting puree into a clean container, cover with a lid and place in the freezer for a couple of hours.
- After the time has passed, remove the product and beat again into a homogeneous mass. Place the resulting mixture in a container and place it in the freezer overnight.
The next day, use a special spoon to place the frozen puree in the form of balls into a bowl or dessert plate. You can decorate the delicacy with mint leaves or other aromatic herbs.
Melon granita with black pepper
Granita is a dessert of Sicilian origin, similar to sorbet, only more doughy. Melon granita seasoned with black pepper is an unexpected combination even for a sophisticated gourmet.
Ingredients
- 1 small cantaloupe (about 1 kg);
- ½ cup sugar;
- ¼ glass of white Muscat wine;
- ¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper.
Preparation
The melon pulp along with wine and pepper must be brought to a puree consistency. The easiest way to do this is with a blender. If you don't have Muscat wine, you can use any other sweet white wine.
Place the resulting mixture in a shallow pan and place in the freezer for 30 minutes. Then remove, stir and return to the freezer. Repeat the procedure every half hour for 2-4 hours until all the liquid is gone and the ice becomes crumbly.
Place the finished granita in low glass glasses or bowls. Serve with a light sprinkle of black pepper.
Ice cream with melon and ginger
If you don’t know what to cook with melon, we advise you to use this recipe. Ice cream with melon and ginger is much tastier than a regular ice cream. Ginger preserved in syrup is a very useful ingredient. One jar will last for a year, even after it has been opened, the ginger in it will not spoil.
Serves 6
- 1 melon with orange flesh (weighing approximately 500 g)
- juice of 1 lemon
- 175 g soft brown sugar
- 300 ml whipping cream
- 50 g ginger in syrup
Cut the melon into pieces, place in a blender along with lemon juice and blend.
Mix with sugar and leave for an hour at room temperature, stirring occasionally to dissolve the sugar.
Whip the cream to soft peaks, combine it with melon puree and finely chopped ginger. Transfer to a container and place in the freezer. Remove from freezer when half frozen and whisk thoroughly to break up ice crystals. Freeze until solid again.
Melon slices a la Mojito
If you love Mojito cocktails and melon, then why not combine the two flavors? Makes an original party appetizer.
Ingredients
- 1 small melon of the “kolkhoznitsa” variety;
- 4 limes;
- 200 ml white rum;
- 150 ml water;
- 2 tablespoons of powdered sugar;
- mint sprigs.
Preparation
Chop the mint and squeeze the juice from the limes. Combine these ingredients, as well as powdered sugar and rum, in a blender and blend at high speed. Dilute this mixture with cold water and mix thoroughly.
Cut the melon into small slices, pour the resulting cocktail over them and place in the refrigerator for half an hour. After that, place each slice on a skewer and place in the freezer for another 30 minutes. Serve immediately before it melts.
How to cut beautifully
Let's get creative. Melon makes you feel like a designer or sculptor. Before serving the product, you can create a real masterpiece from it. Drawings are applied only on the outer part.
But the durable peel allows the vegetable to be widely used as material for baskets. The technology is very simple. Cut into two halves. Finish the edges.
You can first draw the outline with a pen. Using a special spoon, beautifully turn the melon pulp into balls. And then put raspberries, currants, and grapes in the basket. Insert a few mint leaves and scoops of ice cream. The dish is ready.
A second creative masterpiece can be obtained by cutting the fruit lengthwise. Choose seeds. Make balls from the pulp and fill the skin of half a melon with them. String the sails onto two long wooden sticks. It can be made from large thin and long pieces of melon; pieces of sausage are allowed. Decorate everything beautifully and quickly place it in the very center of the table. It's beautiful.
Unusual combinations
You may notice that all melon dishes look somehow unusual. Firstly, they are often quite brightly decorated. And secondly, they contain products that are practically not used together in everyday life. But the end result is an excellent result. Take, for example, a melon appetizer with the famous Parma ham. To prepare this dish, you only need a melon (of any size) and the ham itself.
This simple treat is very easy to prepare:
- First, you need to wash the melon, divide it in half with a knife, remove the seeds and peel. Using a special device, cut the pulp into balls or simply chop it into medium-sized cubes.
- Cut the ham into thin slices and wrap the melon pieces in them.
- Place the preparations on a wide plate and garnish with herbs. Typically, arugula is used for this option, drizzled lightly with olive oil, lime juice and sprinkled with a little pepper and salt.
Such melon dishes belong to the cold appetizers of famous Italian cuisine.
Basic Recipes
Melon is usually eaten raw, but in Asia some varieties are cooked as a vegetable. You can fry the melon pieces in a frying pan for 1-2 minutes in a small amount of vegetable oil and serve as a side dish. Or you can make hot vegetable soup with melon using the basic recipes below.
Spicy chicken dish with melon salsa.
This cantaloupe salsa recipe makes a nice change from mango salsa. It is served with grilled chicken or fish.
Serves 4
- 2 teaspoons jerk seasoning
- 4 tbsp. spoons of olive oil
- juice of 2 limes
- 4 skinless chicken breast fillets
- 1/2 melon
- 1 red onion
- 3 tbsp. tablespoons fresh chopped coriander (cilantro) salt, black pepper
Prepare jerk seasoning paste, 3 tbsp. spoons of olive oil and lime juice. Coat the chicken fillet with half the paste and bake in the oven at 190°C until fully cooked. Cut into small pieces.
Mix the rest of the paste with the rest of the oil to thin it out. Combine with chopped melon, finely chopped onion, coriander, salt and pepper. Serve alongside chicken.
Cold soup with melon.
This melon soup recipe will surprise you with its unusual taste. Serve it in small serving bowls as an appetizer. Garnish with pan-fried and chopped Parma ham. You can make soup without alcohol or replace sherry with white wine.
Serves 2-4
- 1 melon
- juice of 1/2 lemon
- 2 tbsp. spoons of dry sherry
- 1 tbsp. spoon of olive oil
- salt, black pepper
Chop the melon and put it through a blender to make a smooth puree.
Combine with lemon juice, sherry, olive oil, salt and pepper. Place in the refrigerator for an hour.
Drizzle with olive oil before serving.
Benefits for every taste
Scientists classify melon as a melon crop. But, in essence, it is something between fruits, berries and vegetables. This outwardly unattractive product has a pleasant aroma and a unique delicate taste. Even in ancient times, people paid attention to its beneficial properties, and today scientists have come to the conclusion that melon is a real natural storehouse. Despite its reduced calorie content, it is able to normalize blood condition, strengthen hair, improve the functioning of the kidneys, heart and liver, and also remove waste and harmful toxins from the body. Women use this product as a means to control weight and maintain a normal figure. Doctors advise to safely include it in a variety of diets. Perhaps this is the main reason that melon dishes are quite numerous and varied. You can prepare almost anything from it: salads, desserts, preserves and jams, cold appetizers, hot dishes, drinks, sauces and unusual soups. Interestingly, they even make preparations for the winter from melon.
Bakery
A simple melon pie can be prepared from 300 g of melon, and a glass of flour, semolina and kefir. You will also need 100 g of butter and half a glass of sugar, salt, baking powder.
- Beat eggs with salt and sugar.
- Add butter and kefir. Stir.
- Add semolina, flour and baking powder. Mix everything well until you get a homogeneous dough.
- Prepare the form. Grease with oil. Lay out the dough. Place the chopped melon on top.
- Bake in a well-heated oven at 190 degrees for 35 minutes. Check doneness with wooden chopsticks. Sprinkle the finished product with powdered sugar.
Charlotte
The recipe for making charlotte with melon is no different from the classic one, but in taste it outshines the popular version with, only less sugar is used.
For 6 eggs you need less than a glass of sugar and two glasses of flour. Grease the pan with oil. Place the fruit cut into pieces. Pour in the dough.
To prepare it, beat salted eggs with sugar. Add flour with pre-quenched baking soda. Bake for half an hour in a preheated oven at 220 degrees.
Ascorbic acid twist with sugar melon No. 10 – instructions for use:
Active substance:
Ascorbic acid
Release form:
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Amount in a package:
10
Storage conditions:
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Canapes
To make the food look beautiful in a canapé, sprinkle it with lemon juice before serving. It will help preserve the color of the products. And now a few recipes.
Olive, cheese and melon
You will get beautiful canapés if you string the ingredients onto a skewer in the following order: an olive, a piece of hard cheese, and the same piece of melon. Repeat again and dip in poppy seeds. A beautiful and tasty canape is ready.
Ham with melon
Wrap a piece of pulp in a slice of ham and place it on a piece of bread, connecting with a skewer. What could be more mysterious and simpler?
Ice cream at home
Delicious ice cream can be made from half a glass of sugar by adding 250 g of melon and heavy cream. To do this, beat the cream and sugar separately with the pulp of the fruit.
We combine all this very carefully. Place the container in the freezer. Stir the ingredients approximately every hour. Until we get a frozen mass.
Vodka tincture
Interesting and piquant - that's what you can say about the next drink. Cut the top off the fruit. Remove the seeds and some pulp. Pour half a liter of vodka and leave to steep for 15 hours. Serve the drink and the chopped melon separately.
Why did the melon grow ripe but unsweetened?
So, in most cases, the sugar content in fruits (namely, it is responsible for the sweet taste of melon) is influenced by growing conditions, namely:
- Air and soil temperature. It’s not for nothing that melons are called a southern crop, because they need a lot of sun and warmth. The sweetest melons are harvested in southern latitudes. To get a good and high-quality harvest in the central zone, greenhouses are used in combination with warm beds.
- Soil moisture. Of course, it is necessary to water melons, but it is better to water them rarely and abundantly. However, 3 weeks before harvesting the fruits, watering should be stopped. It is at this time that they begin to accumulate sugar. If there is a lot of moisture, then the melons will turn out watery and unsweetened.
In addition, from the practice of gardeners, it was noted that early varieties of melons have lower sugar content compared to later ones.
Melon face mask against wrinkles
Melon can work wonders on a woman’s skin: it will refresh the color, rejuvenate, remove age spots, and get in the way of wrinkles. The easiest way is to simply rub a piece of melon on your face during the melon season.
You can apply melon pulp to the skin and leave for ten minutes. To enhance the effect, mix the gruel with cream and add honey.
For oily skin, you can replace cream with kefir. For dry skin, olive oil is a good addition to melon.
When applying, follow a few rules:
- You should not keep the mask on for more than a quarter of an hour.
- Prepare the product immediately before application.
- To enhance the effect, clean your face with foam or warm it up a little.
- Apply the mask at least once a week.
The above recipes once again confirm that with a small amount of ingredients you can prepare a salad, ice cream, drink and snack. Feed the family with pie and porridge. And also protect yourself and aging skin. And all this with the help of a fragrant, yellow beauty.
Dear friends, today we learned what can be made from melon, and in the next article you will find delicious recipes for winter preparations from our sunny berries.
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How to peel a melon. Melon for weight loss and cleansing the body. Recipe for a cleansing technique.
The season of melons and watermelons has begun. Let's take advantage of this moment to improve your body health and lose weight! In this article I will tell you in detail how.
Despite the fact that melon is a sweet carbohydrate fruit, it has proven itself to be an excellent dietary product for weight loss and cleansing the body.
The calorie content of melon is only about 40 calories per 100 grams! One of the pleasant properties of melon is that its consumption increases the production of the joy hormone serotonin. By regularly eating melon (of course, in the summer and autumn), you can always have a good mood and not be tormented by cravings for sweets.
Other, no less important properties of melon:
- perfectly cleanses the body, removes toxic substances and decay products
-regulates intestinal function, normalizes stool, relieves constipation (which is very important when losing weight)
-normalizes water-salt metabolism, removes excess water from the body, relieves swelling
-has antiparasitic properties
- normalizes cholesterol levels, prevents the formation of vascular “plaques” and the occurrence of atherosclerosis
-normalizes the outflow of bile, improves the functioning of the liver and gallbladder
-normalizes cerebral circulation, improves brain function, helps improve memory and mental activity
-is an excellent source of energy for body cells, increases performance, relieves symptoms of chronic fatigue
-due to the presence of folic acid, it improves intracellular metabolic processes, promotes faster regeneration of cells and tissues of the body, and, therefore, rejuvenates the body at the cellular level
-accelerates metabolism, resulting in faster breakdown of fat cells, promoting more effective weight loss
How to properly use melon?
Melon can be eaten for breakfast or as a snack. The only condition: melon is a product that does not tolerate any “neighborhood”. This means that it must be consumed separately from other products.
Recipe for cleansing the body with melon:
To cleanse the intestines of accumulated poisons, toxins, undigested food debris, and decay products, it is very good to carry out the following cleansing procedure.
For 3-7 days (see for yourself), eat only melon pulp every evening instead of dinner. Moreover, you don’t have to eat the whole melon at once. You can consume melon several times throughout the evening. Throughout the evening, eat about 1 kg of melon pulp. And nothing more! Drinking water at this time is not recommended. The last time we ate melon, we don’t eat or drink anything else.
Important: the next morning after a melon dinner, you need to drink 1 liter of clean water. After this you will get a good, high-quality chair
You can do several of these “melon evenings”, from 3 to 7. After such a tasty and pleasant cleanse, your intestines will work like new!
I suggest you get acquainted with my other articles on cleansing the body:
— Apples for weight loss, cleansing the intestines, liver, gastrointestinal tract — 1 fasting day — 5 simple ways to lose weight — Fiber for weight loss and cleansing the body. Add it to your diet immediately! — Weight loss and cleansing: in 3 days — up to 3 kg — Pectins for weight loss and cleansing the body — Before you decide to lose weight, take care of cleansing your intestines
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Fruit salad is a win-win recipe for all occasions. Cut a small melon in half, remove the seeds and some of the pulp from each half, pour 2 tsp into them. cognac, add 2 tsp. sugar and put in the refrigerator for an hour. Meanwhile, cut into cubes an apple, a pear, 2 peaches, 4 plums, melon pulp, and cut the green grapes in half. Chop a handful of roasted walnuts and mix with fruit. Rub the pieces of refined sugar with lemon zest and dissolve them in a mixture of orange and mint liqueur - the salad dressing is ready. Pour it over the chopped fruit and cool it in the refrigerator. Before serving, place the salad in melon bowls and decorate with scoops of ice cream.
Melon-eggplant rolls
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We told you how many delicious dishes can be prepared from eggplants. Here's another one.
Ingredients
- 1 small eggplant (300–350 g);
- 900 g melon;
- ¼ cup olive oil;
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce;
- 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar;
- 2 tablespoons cane sugar;
- 2 teaspoons salt;
- 2 teaspoons smoked paprika;
- 1½ teaspoons cumin;
- toothpicks or skewers.
Preparation
Cut the eggplant into thin strips. Marinate them for 10 minutes in a mixture of olive oil, soy sauce, apple cider vinegar, cane sugar, salt, cumin and smoked paprika.
Smoked paprika is dried and smoked red pepper that has been ground into powder. Its difference from the usual one is that, in addition to spiciness, it has a bright aroma of smoked meats. If you don't have this seasoning at home, you can use regular ground red pepper.
When the eggplants are marinated, fry them on the grill - just a couple of minutes on each side.
Cantaloupe variety works well for these rolls. Cut the fruit into three-centimeter cubes. Wrap each of them with a strip of eggplant and secure the roll with a skewer or toothpick.
Recipes with melon without cooking
Melon is usually eaten fresh. A ripe melon springs slightly when you press on its base, and it also emits a light aroma. It is better to remove the melon from the refrigerator an hour before serving so that it reaches room temperature, at which its taste and aroma become especially vibrant.
Before serving, cut the melon into half-moon slices and remove the center and seeds. Then, using a large knife, cut the flesh from the rind so that it remains in one large segment. Make cuts lengthwise at a distance of 1 cm from each other, and then across at the same distance to form small cubes. You can cut it so that the pieces remain on the crust, but you do not need to eat the crust.
If you want to make small balls of melon pulp, which looks very good in desserts or snacks, you will have to buy a special spoon, like for ice cream.
Small round melons can be served by cutting them in half and scooping out the seeds. Sprinkle ground or chopped ginger or a little sugar on top - but sweet, ripe melons don't need this. These melon halves can be served for dessert by filling them with other fruits.
Melon for diabetes
Diabetic patients need to take certain aspects of melon into account.
The main features of melon for patients with diabetes are:
- one bread unit per 100 grams of pulp;
- 100 grams of melon contain 35 kcal;
- 65% glycemic index;
- 6.2 grams glycemic load;
- potassium content is relatively low;
- the content of disaccharides (fructose, sucrose) must be taken into account. The carbohydrate ratio is 1.2% glucose; 2.4% fructose; 6% sucrose;
- the vitamin C content is high, there is folic acid, cobalt, which is involved in the formation of blood, promotes the synthesis of enzymes, adrenaline, and proteins.
Positive qualities of melon for diabetes
Melon has low calorie content, it contains large quantities of water and fiber. Diabetic patients are recommended to use melon to make their diet more varied, but they need to replace the appropriate amount of other carbohydrate-containing foods.
It has low calorie content, contains a large amount of water and fiber. It is recommended to use it to diversify the diet, provided that an appropriate amount of other carbohydrate-containing foods is replaced.
Negative qualities of melon for diabetes
Melon has a high glycemic index. If we calculate the content of vitamins per unit mass of the product, then their amount is not large at all, so melon cannot act as a complete source of them.
When consuming melon, patients with diabetes should consider the following:
Melon combines low calorie content with a high glycemic index. Because of this, blood glucose rises quickly but briefly. In type 2 diabetes mellitus with obesity, when consuming melon, a positive result is a decrease in body weight, but at the same time the level of insulin in the blood fluctuates unfavorably. A patient with type 1 diabetes can consume melon as part of their general diet. When the weight is normal (there are no underweight or excess weight), the diet can be quite mild (pronounced restrictions are not required), low-calorie
It is important to ensure that carbohydrates consumed correspond to the insulin that is administered, and physical activity is commensurate. For type 2 diabetes, patients can include melon in their diet. A safe amount is 100-200 grams throughout the day
Therefore, if type 2 diabetes mellitus is combined with obesity, then consuming melon is undesirable. Melon has a lot of fiber, so fermentation processes in the intestinal area proceed better
It is better not to eat melon on an empty stomach. In addition, combining it with other foods is not recommended. If you keep a food diary, you should pay attention to how many carbohydrates you consumed along with the melon