Spicy & Savory Sweet Honeydew Melon

photo by breezermom


- Ready In:
- 24hrs 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
- 1⁄3 cup water
- 1⁄3 cup sugar, white
- 1⁄3 cup basil, stems seperated, leaves torn seperated
- 1 tablespoon red chili, finely chopped
- 1 tablespoon lemon zest
- 4 cups honeydew melon, chopped 1-inch pieces
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt, sea
- 1⁄4 teaspoon white pepper (optional)
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
directions
- In a small pot boil water and sugar, once boiling, add the basil stems, chili and lemon zest and remove from heat.
- All the syrup to cool to room temperature.
- Then you can refrigerate the simple syrup for anywhere 15 minutes or up to 24 hours. The longer it sits the more flavor you will get.
- Remove the basil stems from the syrup and discard.
- In a large bowl toss the melon with the chilled syrup.
- Add the remaining salt, the white pepper if using and the basil leaves, toss gently .
- Drizzle with olive oil and serve.
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Reviews
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What a wonderful surprise! I'll be sharing this with my honeydew loving sister as soon as possible! I'm sure it would be great with the cantaloupe that awalde used as well. I let my syrup sit for about 5 hours, and think that may be just about right.....scared it might be overpowering if it sat longer. Made for 123 Tag. Thanks for sharing!
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Kato, we all loved the recipe, as well as my guest!<br/>I used an Italian melon (I don't know the name) real ripe for this.<br/>I used a combination of normal basil and an other similar to the sweet thai basil, the sauce had time to soak a for 3 hours! Finally the sauce was parfumed, hot but not tooo much.<br/>I served the ingredients (melon, salt, pepper, basil and syrup) on the table and everybody arranged this in his dish. I forgot the olive oil, sorry!<br/>Delicious and "special"!<br/>Thanks a lot!
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