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Name: Minted Melon
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4 people
Cuisine: french
Ingredients: 1 handful fresh mint leaves; 100 g water; 50 g caster sugar; 1 melon; ½ lime; 2 tablespoons rum

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Minted Melon

It is tempting to call this a melon Mojito: little balls of ripe melon in a light Mojito-flavoured syrup with mint, rum and lime.

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Last modified on: September 13^th 2015

For 4 people, you will need:

1 : 1 handful fresh mint leaves
2 : 100 g water
3 : 50 g caster sugar
4 : 1 melon
5 : ½ lime
6 : 2 tablespoons rum
Total weight: 1,045 grams

Change for: 2 people 4 people 8 people 12 people

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How long does it take?

Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
10 min.	30 min.	5 min.	45 min.

Preservation: Should be eaten the day it is made.

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Step by step recipe

1	Rinse and dry 1 handful fresh mint leaves.	1 min.
2	Pour 100 g water and 50 g caster sugar into a small pan, add the roughly chopped mint leaves and bring to the boil. Cover and leave to cool.	5 min.
3	Prepare the melon Cut the melon in half and scrape out the seeds from the middle.	3 min.
4	Use a pommes parisiennes spoon to cut the melon into balls.	5 min.
5	Prepare the whole melon like this, putting the balls into a bowl as you go. If you do not have this special kind of spoon, you can simply dice the melon.
6	Combine the flavours Pour the cold syrup through a strainer onto the melon balls. Add the juice of ½ lime and 2 tablespoons rum. Mix well.	1 min.
7	Cover and refrigerate before serving.	30 min.
8	Serve in glass dishes, garnished with a sprig of mint.

Remarks

Try to leave the melon balls in the syrup for at least 30 minutes, so that the flavours have time to mingle well.

Choose your melon carefully: it needs to be fully ripe.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Calories	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
613	9 gr	118 gr	2 gr
31 %	3 %	11 %	<1 %

Per 100 g
Calories	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
59	1 gr	11 gr	0 gr
3 %	<1 %	1 %	<1 %

Per person
Calories	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
153	2 gr	29 gr	0 gr
8 %	1 %	3 %	<1 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 4 people : 3.99 €
Per person : 1.00 €

Note : These prices are only approximate.

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Source: Home made.

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	Melon: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Melon with port sorbet, ... All

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