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Minted Melon

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

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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Duration

45 min.

Difficulty

Easy

Last modified on: October 29^th 2026

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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

Times for this recipe

Preparation

10 min.

Resting

30 min.

Cooking

5 min.

All in all

45 min.

Preparation 10 min.

Resting 30 min.

Cooking 5 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - ⌛ 1 min.

Prepare the "Mojito" syrup

Rinse and dry 1 handful fresh mint leaves.

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.

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.

Stage 6 - ⌛ 1 min.

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.

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.

Keeping: Should be eaten the day it is made.

Source: Home made.

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Nutritional information

	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats	Calories	Energy
Per 100 g	0 g	11 g RDI=4 %	0 g	58 kcal RDI=3 %	244 kJ RDI=3 %
Per person	2 g RDI=3 %	29 g RDI=11 %	0 g	152 kcal RDI=8 %	636 kJ RDI=8 %
Whole recipe	8 g RDI=13 %	118 g RDI=45 %	1 g RDI=2 %	608 kcal RDI=30 %	2,546 kJ RDI=30 %