For 4 people, you will need:
- 0
1 handful fresh mint leaves - 1
100 g water - 2
50 g caster sugar - 3
1 melon - 4
½ lime - 5
2 tablespoons rum - Total weight: 1,045 grams
How long does it take?
Time required for this recipe:
| Preparation | Resting | Cooking | Start to finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 min. | 30 min. | 5 min. | 45 min. |
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Step by step recipe
Stage 1 - 1 min.
Stage 2 - 5 min.
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.
Cover and leave to cool.
Stage 3 - 3 min.
Prepare the melon
Cut the melon in half and scrape out the seeds from the middle.
Stage 4 - 5 min.
Use a pommes parisiennes spoon to cut the melon into balls.
Stage 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.
If you do not have this special kind of spoon, you can simply dice the melon.
Stage 6 - 1 min.
Stage 7 - 30 min.
Cover and refrigerate before serving.
Stage 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.
Choose your melon carefully: it needs to be fully ripe.
Keeping:
Should be eaten the day it is made.Nutritional information
| Whole recipe | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 613 Kcal or 2,567 Kj | 9 gr | 118 gr | 2 gr |
| 31 % | 3 % | 11 % | <1 % |
| Per 100 g | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 59 Kcal or 247 Kj | 1 gr | 11 gr | < 1 gr |
| 3 % | <1 % | 1 % | <1 % |
| Per person | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 153 Kcal or 641 Kj | 2 gr | 30 gr | < 1 gr |
| 8 % | 1 % | 3 % | <1 % |
How much will it cost?
- For 4 people : 3.99 €
- Per person : 1.00 €
Note : These prices are only approximate.
Source
Home made.More recipes?
This recipe uses (among others) | Water: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Chicken pie, Chorba, Benoîton, Sausage and lentils "en cocotte", Mushroom velouté, ... All |
| Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Nanou's chocolate cake, Caramel semolina pudding with raisins, Pancake batter, Strawberry feuilleté, Muffin dough, ... All |
| Rum: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Rich hazelnut buttercream, Linzer torte, Baked Alaska, Sicilian Epiphany Pie, Apple Strudel, ... All |
| Melon: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Melon with port sorbet, ... All |
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