Best Melon With Red Chili Flakes Salt And Lime Recipes

SPICY SAUTéED FUZZY MELON

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Resembling a mottled green zucchini with sparse, bristly hair, fuzzy melon is a type of gourd popular in Chinese cooking. Often stuffed with ground pork, it absorbs flavors easily and also shines in simpler recipes, like this one from Joanne Chang of Flour Bakery in Boston.

Provided by Merrill Stubbs

Categories side dish

Time 15m

Yield Serves 6 as a side dish

Number Of Ingredients 8

Ingredients

3 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 cloves garlic, peeled and smashed
1 2-inch piece ginger, peeled and thinly sliced
2 medium fuzzy melons, peeled, halved lengthwise and sliced 1/8 inch thick (6 cups)
2 tablespoons soy sauce
2 teaspoons rice-wine vinegar
1 teaspoon red-pepper flakes
Salt and ground black pepper

Steps:

Heat the oil in a large, deep skillet over high heat until smoking. Add the garlic, ginger and melon and sauté for 2 minutes, until the melon has absorbed the oil. Add 1/4 cup water and sauté, stirring occasionally, until it evaporates. Repeat this process, adding water in 1/4-cup increments, until the melon is tender, 6 to 8 minutes. Stir in the soy sauce, vinegar and red-pepper flakes and sauté for another minute. Add salt and pepper to taste and serve immediately.

Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 107, UnsaturatedFat 6 grams, Carbohydrate 10 grams, Fat 7 grams, Fiber 1 gram, Protein 2 grams, SaturatedFat 1 gram, Sodium 471 milligrams, Sugar 7 grams, TransFat 0 grams

MELON SOUP

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Provided by Mark Bittman

Categories soups and stews

Time 2h10m

Number Of Ingredients 7

Ingredients

2 cups yogurt
1/4 cup milk
1 cup chopped mint leaves
medium ripe melon
2 tablespoons lime juice
1 teaspoon chili powder
Chopped pistachios

Steps:

In a bowl, whisk together 2 cups yogurt, 1/4 cup milk and 1 cup chopped mint leaves until mint is fragrant; strain and discard solids.
In another bowl, combine the grated flesh of a medium ripe melon, 2 tablespoons lime juice and 1 teaspoon chili powder; refrigerate bowls for 2 hours, stirring once.
To serve, spoon yogurt onto melon and stir.
Garnish: Chopped pistachios.

MELON WITH RED CHILI FLAKES, SALT AND LIME

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Skewered melon with chili, salt and lime juice, served as a snack or part of a larger meal, is as unexpected as it is compulsively edible. It's also easily assembled and takes no time, and rewards with layers of flavor.

Provided by Jeff Schwarz And Greg Kessler

Categories breakfast, brunch, dinner, easy, lunch, quick, weekday, appetizer, dessert

Time 10m

Yield 4 servings

Number Of Ingredients 6

Ingredients

1 muskmelon (honeydew or cantaloupe), rind and seeds removed
8 six-inch skewers
1 tablespoon kosher salt
1 tablespoon red pepper flakes
1 jalapeño, finely diced (seeds removed)
½ lime

Steps:

Cut the melon into 1-inch cubes.Skewer the melon pieces (about four pieces for each skewer), and place them on a serving plate.
Place the salt and red chili flakes in a coffee or spice grinder and pulse until finely ground. Sprinkle about a teaspoon of the salt/chili mixture over the melons, followed by the diced jalapeño.
Squeeze the lime over the melons, and serve.