Ingredients

• ¼ part of a medium watermelon;
• 2 bunches of fresh cilantro;
• 2 bunches of arugula;
• 2 bunches of fresh mint;
• 1 small radish;
• 100 g feta cheese;
• some peanuts or shelled sunflower seeds.

For the sauce

• 1 small ginger root, peeled and chopped
• 1 red, 1 yellow (guero) and 1 green chili (seeded and finely chopped)
• 1 tbsp. l. soy sauce;
• 6 tbsp. l. olive oil;
• 1 tsp sesame oil;
• juice of 3-4 limes;

Preparation

Peel the watermelon pulp and cut into cubes. Chop the cilantro, arugula and mint and place in a bowl along with the chopped radish, watermelon and mint. In another bowl, combine ginger, chili peppers, soy sauce, olive oil, sesame oil, lime juice, ground pepper, and salt (to taste). Fry peanuts or sunflower seeds in a pan or baking sheet in the oven (you can buy already fried). Then crush the seeds or grind them with a blender or coffee grinder. Pour the sauce over the salad, add feta cheese and sprinkle with peanuts (sunflower seeds).

Fried watermelon with cheese and prosciutto

Ingredients

• 3-5 small (about 3 cm thick) pieces of watermelon;
• 1 tbsp. l. olive oil;
• 100 g prosciutto;
• 100 g blue cheese;
• 1 tsp balsamic vinegar;
• a bunch of fresh basil;
• coarse salt;
• ground black pepper.

Preparation

Preheat the barbecue maker to 350-400 degrees. Brush slices of watermelon with olive oil (on both sides), salt and pepper. Grill the slices of watermelon (1 minute on each side), leaving the lid on the barbecue maker, until the characteristic crust appears. Cut the prosciutto into thin slices. Pour balsamic vinegar over each slice of watermelon and serve along with prosciutto, cheese and fresh basil.

Watermelon shake

Ingredients

• 500 g of ripe watermelon pulp;
• 100 g of condensed milk;
• 2 tbsp. l. Sahara;
• cocktail umbrellas for decoration, straws.

Preparation

A shake is a cocktail, most often a milk cocktail, based on the recipe for mixing and shaking the components. To cook it, peel the watermelon. Beat it in a blender along with condensed milk and sugar until smooth. Drain the cocktail into a decanter and cool in the refrigerator. Then pour into glasses (4-6 servings from the specified amount of ingredients) and decorate to your taste.

Watermelon soup

Ingredients

• 500 g of watermelon pulp;
• 1 fresh cucumber;
• 1 green chili pepper;
• 1 feather of green onions;
• 1 lime;
• a bunch of mint;
• 2 tbsp. l. champagne vinegar;
• 1 tbsp. l. olive oil;
• sea ​​salt and ground black pepper.

Preparation

Peel the watermelon and chop finely. Chop the peppers, chives and mint finely. Cut a cucumber into small cubes. Take a deep bowl and combine all the chopped ingredients, sprinkling them with lime juice (by the way, you can also crumble the zest in a bowl), vinegar and olive oil. Mix well. Then grind the contents of the bowl with a blender until smooth. Strain through a fine sieve, season the resulting puree with salt and ground pepper. Cool in the refrigerator for an hour. Then serve in deep bowls and garnish with mint.

Watermelon salsa

Ingredients

• 400 g of watermelon pulp;
• 2 jalapeno peppers;
• a bunch of cilantro;
• 60 ml lime juice;
• half a small purple onion;
• salt to taste.

Preparation

Salsa is a Mexican vegetable appetizer made from finely chopped vegetables (not to be confused with the sauce of the same name!). To make an extravagant watermelon salsa, wash, deseed and chop all the vegetables and fruits you need. Drizzle with lime juice, salt. Stir well and let the appetizer steep slightly. Serve chilled.

Watermelon and shrimp shashlik

Ingredients

• 450 g large shrimp;
• 26 pieces (3 cm thick) of ripe watermelon;
• 80 ml lime juice;
• 60 ml olive oil;
• 2 tbsp. l. honey;
• a pinch of garlic powder;
• basil (better Thai).

Preparation

Prepare the marinade first: combine lime juice, butter, chopped basil, honey and garlic powder. Pour a quarter of the resulting marinade into a separate bowl. Then soak the peeled shrimp in the marinade for 15 minutes. String shrimp and watermelon slices on wooden skewers, alternating with each other. Grill the kebab over medium heat for about 5 minutes, until the shrimp are brown. Serve the skewers directly on the skewers, pouring the remaining marinade over it. From the specified number of products, you will get about 13 servings.

Watermelon Peel Jam

Ingredients

• 1 kg of watermelon peels;
• 1.2 kg of sugar;
• 600 ml of water;
• 1 lemon;
• 3 tsp baking soda;
• vanilla.

Preparation

Cut off the green skin from the watermelon rinds (only the white part should remain) and cut them into small pieces (3-4 cm). Dissolve the baking soda in 3 liters of water and place the crusts in the resulting solution. Leave them to soak overnight. Rinse thoroughly with clean water in the morning. Next, cook the sugar syrup: 600 ml of water for 600 g of sugar. When the syrup begins to thicken, dip the crusts in it, bring to a boil and cook for another 30 minutes over low heat. Then turn it off and leave to infuse (5-8 hours). Then add the remaining sugar, bring to a boil again and cook for half an hour. Leave it on for another 5-8 hours. Repeat the procedure a third time. At the end of the third boil, add lemon juice and vanilla. When the jam has cooled, pour it into the jars and store in a cool place.

Watermelon fruit ice

Ingredients

• 500 g watermelon;
• 2 tbsp. l. lime juice;
• mint.

Preparation

Peel the pulp of the watermelon. Use a blender to combine watermelon, lime juice, and mint leaves. You can add a little sugar to taste. Then pour the resulting cocktail into the molds (it is convenient to use yogurt cups), stick in the sticks, like for an popsicle, and put them in the refrigerator for several hours. To easily get watermelon ice out of the molds, dip the mold with it in warm water for a few seconds.

Watermelon pudding

Ingredients

• 2 kg of watermelon pulp;
• 50 g cornstarch;
• 100 g sugar;
• 1 tsp anise seeds;
• 2 tsp lemon juice.

Preparation

Peel the watermelon and whisk in a puree with a blender. Strain through a sieve to remove the pulp. ¼ Mix the resulting watermelon juice with cornstarch. Pour the remaining juice into a saucepan and bring to a boil along with sugar and anise seeds. Then pour the starch and watermelon juice that you have set aside into a saucepan. Reduce heat and simmer, stirring constantly, for 3 minutes. Then add lemon juice and remove from heat. Pour the watermelon mixture into cups through a sieve and let cool to room temperature. Then refrigerate the pudding for at least 3 hours. Serve sprinkled with ground pistachios, chocolate chips, cinnamon, or garnish with whipped cream.

Watermelon sorbet

Ingredients

• 4 kg of watermelon;
• 130 g sugar;
• 180 ml of water;
• 2 tbsp. l. lime juice.

Preparation

Pour water into a small saucepan, add sugar and bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring constantly. Then reduce heat and simmer the syrup for another 5 minutes. Remove from heat and cool to room temperature. Then cover the pot with a lid and refrigerate for an hour. Meanwhile, beat the watermelon and lime juice with a blender until smooth. Then strain the watermelon mass through a sieve to get rid of the seeds, and beat it with the cooled sugar syrup. Pour the watermelon-sugar mixture into a skillet and place in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. During this time, the future sorbet should "grab" around the edges. Take a spoon and stir it. Place in refrigerator again. After half an hour, repeat the procedure. The sorbet should have a consistency with watermelon-ice crystals. After that, freeze the dessert for another 1.5-2 hours.

A perfectly thirst-quenching natural dessert - a treat that the whole family loves. The zealous hostess, probably, has thought more than once how to prepare a watermelon delicacy in order to be able to enjoy its unique taste on long winter evenings. So, what can you make with watermelon?

You can cook a lot of things from watermelon for the winter.

Despite the presence of liquid, the product is used in the preparation of desserts, jams, preserves, preserves, marmalade.

The striped berry is also successfully applied in urination, salting, and fermentation.

The top of the culinary art, perhaps, can be called homemade watermelon wine. And tender green jam is made from watermelon peels.

In addition, watermelon peels can still be fried, or candied fruits can be prepared from them. Remember to remove the bitter green crust before cooking.

Pickled watermelons for the winter (video)

How to freeze a watermelon for the winter

Do not freeze the product whole... The presence of a large amount of liquid will lead to a slimy content of the watermelon during thawing. It is better to freeze a tasty berry, as an original addition to New Year's cocktails or sorbets, using one of the proposed methods.

Do not freeze the product whole

Freezing product options:

1. Cocktail cubes. Separate the watermelon pulp from the rind, remove the seeds, cut into cubes. Place on a plastic cutting board. Place in the freezer. To avoid further sticking, let the watermelon pieces freeze. Then wrap the pulp in a low-temperature plastic bag. Place in a quick freezer.
2. Pulp in syrup. Cut into wedges. Prepare a syrup from 40 g of water and 60 g of sugar. Roll each wedge in cool sugar syrup. Put on a board, freeze in the freezer. Then fold into plastic bags and place in the food compartment of the freezer. Quick freezing of a semi-finished product will ideally preserve its taste and nutritional value.
3. Smoothie. Separate the cooked pulp from the peel and seeds. Beat with a blender. The resulting mixture can be frozen in ice cube trays. An excellent New Year's delicacy for a children's sweet table.
4. Fruit icecream. Place the pulp whipped with a blender in an ice cream dish. Freeze the mass on quick freeze, holding for 2 hours. Take out, insert a stick into each well, return back until the product is completely frozen.
5. Juice. Cooking like a smoothie. Before freezing, squeeze the mass through several gauze layers. Freeze the liquid in ice cube trays. For a richer sweet taste, add some sugar.

Never throw away the used pulp after juicing and the trimmed green rinds. We use the pulp in jam, and make candied fruits from the crusts.

Watermelon juice for the winter: a step by step recipe

Required Ingredients:

• Ripe watermelon - 5 kg;
• Granulated sugar - 100 g;
• Citric acid - 5 g.

Making watermelon juice is easy

Cooking method:

1. Peel the watermelons to red pulp, remove the seeds. If there are overripe areas of the pulp, cut it off.
2. Cut the product into portions, grind into a homogeneous mass with a blender. You can go through a meat grinder.
3. Separate the liquid from the pulp by straining through cheesecloth in several layers.
4. Boil the juice over low heat. We gradually add sugar and citric acid. For a more characteristic acid, add 1 tsp instead of acid. fresh cranberries whipped with a blender. Such a drink will be more useful for the body in the cold winter season.
5. Keep on fire for no more than 10 minutes.
6. Pour into sterilized jars, roll up. The roll should stand upside down until it cools down.
7. Store in a well ventilated area.

Use the leftover watermelon rind and overripe pulp to make a light green smoothie. Grind the products to the state of gruel, add cucumber juice, a drop of lemon juice and a teaspoon of honey to the drink. The result is a refreshing fortified dessert.

How to make a watermelon in your own juice

Sweet and sour dessert will be an unusual addition to fruit salads.

Required products:

• Medium watermelon - 3 kg;
• Granulated sugar - to taste;
• Lemon juice - 2 tbsp l;
• Watermelon juice - 1 l.

Sweet and sour dessert will be an unusual addition to fruit salads

What to do:

1. For the blank, we select a solid product without visible signs of damage. Wash the watermelon thoroughly. Cut into portions 2 cm thick.
2. In a steamed sterilized dish, carefully but tightly lay the ingredient in rows. Add lemon juice there. Cover with lids and a clean towel.
3. Slowly bring the watermelon juice with sugar in a separate bowl to a boil.
4. Pour the cans with the contents with a boiling drink, roll up. Turn the covers down. Keep this way until it cools.

Store in a ventilated area.

How to make one stripped watermelon juice

In the process of evaporation, the watermelon loses up to ¾ of its pulp mass. From a kilogram of watermelon, 300 ml is obtained at the exit. one stripped off liquid.

Ingredients for 10 kg of pulp:

• Granulated sugar - 1 st;
• Citric acid - 1 tsp;

How to do:

1. The pulp is thoroughly beaten with a blender. When using a meat grinder, skip the ingredient several times.
2. Strain the liquid through cheesecloth. The squeezed pulp can be sprinkled with sugar and left until the juice is released. Pour the pure juice, squeezed through cheesecloth, into a separate saucepan.
3. Add sugar. Simmer the mass over very low heat for 4 hours, stirring constantly. Make sure that the mass does not burn.
4. To reduce the sweetness of the finished product, add a little boiled water.
5. After the mass is compacted, add citric acid. Boil for another 3 minutes and roll up in sterilized jars.

After cooling, keep out of the reach of light.

How to make condensed watermelon juice

Condensed watermelon juice (jam) is prepared in two ways at home. The standard recipe involves the process of boiling the product to the desired thickness, followed by the addition of lemon juice (or acid). In preparation, gelatin is used in a quick way.

Required Ingredients:

• Watermelon pulp;
• Granulated sugar - to taste;
• Lemon juice to taste;

Cooking methods:

Standard way

1. Twist the prepared pulp several times in a meat grinder, or beat with a blender.
2. Put the resulting mass on low heat. Add sugar to taste. Stirring often, we bring the boiling process to readiness. We check the density with a drop of juice in cold water. It should not spread over the surface.
3. At the end of cooking, add lemon juice, hold for another 2 minutes. Roll up in sterilized dishes.
4. Place in a ventilated room after cooling down.

Fast way

The blanks of the product closed in this way for the winter have a short shelf life. Maximum 3-4 months if the cooking process is properly followed.

Required Ingredients:

• A liter of watermelon juice;
• Sugar, citric acid - to taste;
• Food gelatin - 30 g.

The juice turns out to be very tasty

How to cook:

1. Boil the liquid with sugar and citric acid.
2. Pour a little drink into a separate bowl, cool, add gelatin there, stir until the grains are completely dissolved.
3. Pour back into the pot with the contents.
4. After adding gelatin, do not bring to a boil. Wait until the first bubbles appear, and set aside the finished product to cool.
5. Cool the juice. Can be refrigerated for a quick jelly-like state.

Harvesting watermelon syrup for the winter

The optimal recipe for making syrup is thick watermelon juice.

Ingredients:

• Watermelon pulp;
• Granulated sugar;
• Lemon.

Preparation:

1. Beat the pulp of the watermelon with a blender. Add a little boiled water and sugar to the mass.
2. Put on low heat. Simmer the mixture while boiling, periodically adding granulated sugar until a thick consistency is formed. Add lemon juice at the end of cooking.
3. Check readiness by dropping a drop of liquid onto cold water with a spoon. If it does not spread and wrinkles easily with your hands, the syrup is ready. Pour into sterilized dishes.

Store the finished product in the refrigerator under a nylon lid.

Rolling watermelons for the winter (video)

The simplest thing is to cut the berry into semicircles or slices and serve. But there are days when you want to try something new.

If this is your day and there is a watermelon in the fridge, take it out and prepare two simple meals. The recipes are shared by Lara Katsova, brand chef of the Moscow restaurant Duke-Duke:

- I associate watermelons with three recipes from my Odessa childhood.

First- watermelon with feta cheese: a very tasty combination, and it's easy to cook.

The watermelon is cut into pieces (the seeds must be removed) and the feta cheese is cut into exactly the same pieces. Anyone who likes basil can add basil leaves.

If the watermelon is unsweetened, pour honey on top and sprinkle with walnuts. You will get an unusual dessert.

Second- watermelon drink, or, as they would say now, fresh watermelon.

Grandma cut the watermelon very finely, right into the crumb (you can skip it through a blender). Then, with the help of a crush, she turned the watermelon crumbs into gruel, added a little honey and crushed ice. Then everything was mixed, and a delicious drink was obtained.

In the heat, he walked very well. I even carried it to the beach - the ice, of course, was melting by this time, but the drink remained cold.

Third recipe- light salad. It consists of watermelon, fresh radishes, lettuce leaves (those who wish can replace lettuce leaves with arugula). Making a salad is very simple. Lettuce leaves are chopped or torn. The radish is cut into quarters. Then add small pieces of watermelon, small shrimps and season with vegetable oil mixed with lemon juice. Yes, and, of course, you need to add a little salt and pepper.

ADVICE. To make a dish with watermelon tasty - of course, you need a delicious watermelon. Probably, everyone has their own ways, but I choose this way: first I knock on it - a ripe watermelon makes a booming, slightly vibrating sound. I also look at the ponytail, near which there should be a slightly faded speck. If I see these signs, I take a watermelon. Yes, and she didn't say anything about the main thing! My grandmother taught that it is best to buy watermelons from the second half of August.

Read about the results of research on Roskachestvo watermelons, and how to choose them.

Apparently, this is why our watermelon season began on August 20. Watermelons were sold everywhere (before, there was no need to obtain permission to sell). Whoever had houses near Odessa with large plots of land grew watermelons, and then, when the berries were ripe, they stored the crops right at their gate. Anyone passing by could stop and buy a watermelon.

Eat watermelons and lose weight

By the way, during the melon season, many women from Odessa began to lose weight on watermelons. This is very convenient: you are full, while not gaining calories and, moreover, you get rid of excess fluid and swelling.

True, you have to be careful here too. I remember a case where my friend and I ate a large watermelon together. Grandma bought a huge and fantastically sweet watermelon and we couldn't tear ourselves away from it! They sat down and killed him together.

Everything was fine with me, but my friend had sand in her kidneys. As a result, she had a seizure.

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With the onset of the hot season, people want to diversify their menu, make it lighter, but at the same time delicious. All kinds of fruits and berries appear on store shelves, including the beloved watermelon. Usually they just cut it up and eat it, but it turns out that you can make a lot of delicious dishes from watermelon.

In addition to the obvious option to cut the watermelon into wedges and serve as a dessert after dinner, this unusual berry allows you to show culinary skills and imagination.

In addition to the obvious option to cut the watermelon into wedges and serve as a dessert after dinner, this unusual berry allows you to show culinary skills and imagination.

Among the delicious and unusual ways to cook and serve watermelon, there are two of the most popular:

• jam;
• candied fruit.

Sugar watermelon jam

In order to make the jam, you will need to take the following ingredients:

• Sugar sand (or lumpy, but you need to grind it) - 0.9-1 kg.
• Watermelon peels - 1.3 kg.

Cooking process:

1. Cut the upper part of the crusts with a knife (dark green tough);
2. Cut the peeled crusts into small pieces;
3. Rinse them well in cool water;
4. Soak in saline for 30 minutes - this will keep the pieces in shape;
5. Simmer for 10 minutes on low heat;
6. Prepare sugar syrup (from 0.6 liters of water and 0.4 kg of sugar), pour the crusts and cook on medium heat for 15 minutes, then cool and repeat the cooking 3 more times for 15 minutes (after each time, the jam will need to be cooled).

Blanks for the winter will need to be placed in a glass container and rolled up, stored in a cool place.

Candied peel

You can prepare candied fruits using the following ingredients:

• Prepared watermelon rinds (peeled and washed) - 1.2 kg.
• Water - 600 ml.
• Citric acid - 5 g.
• Sugar - 1 kg.

Making interesting watermelon dishes is not as difficult as it seems. You just need to really want it, and strain your imagination. Many people think that berries are only suitable for jam, but this is a very big mistake.

Unusual drink

Everyone is accustomed to the fact that watermelon should be eaten without preliminary processing, simply by cutting it into slices and savoring the juicy, tender pulp. But few people know that a huge number of the most unexpected dishes can be prepared from this unusual berry. Some recipes don't even fit in my head. For example, the simplest version of a watermelon dish is a drink. It is not difficult to prepare it. For 4 servings you will need:

120 grams of watermelon pulp, ½ lime stuff, a tablespoon of sugar, 60 ml of white rum, 4 mint leaves and some ice.

Cooking is carried out in several stages:

1. Cut the lime into pieces and crush in a specially prepared container along with sugar and mint.
2. Add watermelon and knead everything again.
3. Pour the rum and throw the pieces of ice into the container.
4. Mix the contents well and pour into glasses.

No one will refuse such an exquisite drink, which in its composition resembles "Mojito". But if the guests are suddenly caught not drinking, then rum can easily be replaced with "Sprite".

"Magic" salad

There is another option for cooking watermelon dishes. This is a salad. A rather unusual combination of components ultimately gives a surprisingly pleasant taste. To prepare such a salad, you will need:

1.5 kilograms of watermelon pulp, 100 grams of pumpkin seeds, 300 grams of feta cheese, 2-3 tablespoons of olive oil and a little ground black pepper.

An unusual culinary "miracle" is being prepared as follows:

1. First, preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
2. Send seeds to it for 10 minutes, after mixing them with two tablespoons of oil.
3. Cut the watermelon randomly into medium-sized pieces and place on plates.
4. Grind the cheese on a grater with large cells and sprinkle the watermelon on top with the resulting crumbs.
5. Then scatter the seeds on a plate.
6. The resulting mass is left to pepper and sprinkle with the rest of the oil.

When serving such a watermelon dish on the table, you must also remember to put a small plate with lemon slices next to it.

For the little ones

Choosing watermelon dishes, recipes can be chosen for everyone: for both adults and children. The little ones should especially love the popsicles. This delicacy gives them special pleasure. You need very little for it:

for half a watermelon, take 1 lemon, 3 oranges and a little sugar to taste.

In order to prepare such ice cream, you need to follow a few simple steps:

1. Cut the peeled watermelon pulp into random pieces and load them into a blender.
2. Pour the juice squeezed from the fruit there and add sugar.
3. Mix the products well, pour the resulting mass into prepared molds and put in the freezer for 3 hours. This time will be quite enough.

Children will definitely like this fragrant dessert. For them, you can cook other watermelon dishes. The recipes and technology for their preparation are not complicated, and the original taste and unusual look will surely please the kids.

Healing mixtures

Watermelon and melon dishes are not only delicious. They are also very useful for humans. These products are able to increase immunity, remove harmful toxins from the body and simply lift your mood. For example, a summer salad of fragrant melon and juicy watermelon looks very impressive on the table. It includes the following components:

0.5 kilograms of watermelon and melon pulp, 2 tablespoons of lime juice, 4 tablespoons of blackberries and a few sprigs of mint.

You can prepare a salad as follows:

1. Cut balls out of the pulp of both products with a special spoon. These devices are sold at hardware stores. Otherwise, you can simply cut into cubes of the same size.
2. Mash the blackberries with a fork together with the juice into a gruel. If the berries taste a little sour, then you can add a little sugar powder or honey.
3. Combine prepared foods, stir and refrigerate.

At the right time, all that remains is to put everything on the plates and decorate the dish on top with mint leaves.

Blanks for the winter

Surprisingly, watermelons, like other foods, can be harvested for the winter. Of course, because the human body needs vitamins all year round. How else can you preserve this delicate product? As a rule, watermelons are harvested in jars. To do this, you first need to prepare all the ingredients:

1 watermelon 50 grams of salt, 4 tablespoons of sugar and 100 grams of vinegar.

The cooking process is very similar to canning tomatoes:

1. First you need to prepare the jars and lids.
2. Then cut the watermelon into large slices together with the crust and put them tightly in jars.
3. Pour boiling water over the products and wait 20 minutes.
4. Then drain the water into a separate saucepan and prepare the marinade. To do this, pour salt, sugar into it and boil for 3 minutes.
5. First pour vinegar into each jar, and then fill it to the top with the prepared marinade and roll up.

In winter, this unusual but delicious product will be like a godsend. And if you also remember the benefits that watermelon brings, then you will want to eat it more and more often.

Unusual delicacy

It should be noted that jam is still the most common way of harvesting berries and fruits for future use. True, few people prepare watermelon jam. But in vain. It tastes as good as cherry or strawberry. There are two ways to prepare such a delicacy: from pulp or from watermelon peels. In the first case, the mixture is very tender and more homogeneous. For its preparation, you will definitely need:

700 grams of ripe watermelon pulp, a kilogram of sugar, 10 grams of citric acid and vanilla sugar each.

You need to cook such jam slowly:

1. Cut the watermelon pulp into pieces, put in a bowl, sprinkle with sugar and leave it in this state for a couple of hours. During this time, juice should stand out.
2. Put the basin on fire, bring the mixture to a boil and boil it over medium heat for about 15 minutes. Then remove and leave to cool completely.
3. Such actions must be repeated 3 times.
4. The last time at the end of cooking, pour the remaining ingredients into the bowl and boil the mass for another 5 minutes.