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Grilled melon with lime dressing

Time
10 minutes
Servings
4

Hosting a large BBQ for a crowd? Quick and easy recipes can be a life saver. This grilled melon with lime dressing is super easy and ready in minutes. It's perfect as dessert, and also goes well with grilled meat as a side dish.

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Ingredients
  • 1 Charentais melon (or other melon of your choice)
  • 1 lime
  • 1/2 tsp chili flakes
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Preparation
  • Cut the melon into quarters, discard the seeds and then cut again into slices (not too thin).
  • Sprinkle the melon wedges with lime juice and some chili flakes.
  • Grill each side on the BBQ for a few minutes (until grill stripes appear).
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The Charentais melon is an aromatic and sweet melon variety popular in France. It's also known as cantaloupe or rockmelon in other countries. Here are some tips to select a ripe melon: the overall colour of the rind should be creamy yellow, not green and it should have a musky and sweet fragrance.

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