Melon Carpaccio

AUTHOR
Isreal Robertson
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
3 4
COOK TIME
25 mins
TOTAL TIME
25 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 4
  • 130 g Sugar
  • 7-10 Tbsp scraped pulp from 1 vanilla pod
  • 850 g Watermelon
  • 400 g Charentais melon
  • 400 g Honeydew melon
  • 150 g Fresh cream
  • 7-10 Tbsp grated rind of 1/2 untreated lemon
  • 1 untreated lemon for decoration

Directions

  1. 1

    Put 100 g sugar, 120 ml water and vanilla pulp in a small pot. Slowly bring to the boil and simmer for 6-8 minutes until syrupy. Let it cool down. Quarter melons, peel, scrape out seeds.

  2. 2

    Cut part of the fruit flesh into thin slices. Form balls from the rest with a ball cutter. Arrange the melon slices decoratively on plates and place the melon balls in the middle.

  3. 3

    Drizzle the syrup over carpaccio. Mix crème fraiche, 30 g sugar and lemon peel. Wash the lemon, rub dry and remove fine strips from the peel with a zest ripper. Serve melon carpaccio sprinkled with crème fraiche and lemon zests.

  4. 4

    It goes well with biscuits.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
360 kcal
CARBS
62 g
FATS
12 g
PROTEINS
3 g

Categories & Tags

Dessert