Hot Melon Salad

Recipe courtesy Alton Brown, 2004

Show: Good EatsEpisode: Melondrama

Rated: 5 stars out of 5Rate itRead users' reviews (6)

RECIPE
COMMENTS & REVIEWS(6)

Cook Time:
6 min
Level:
Easy
Yield:
4 first-course servings

Times:

Prep: 15 min
Inactive Prep: --
Cook: 6 min
Total:: 21 min

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Ingredients

1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil
1 small red onion, sliced into thin rounds
16 ounces medium-diced melon, approximately 2 cups
1 tablespoon fresh basil, cut into chiffonade
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
2 teaspoons red wine vinegar
2 ounces feta cheese, crumbled
1 tablespoon pine nuts, toasted

Directions

Heat a large saute pan or wok over high heat. Once the pan is hot, add the olive oil, followed by the onion, and saute for 1 to 2 minutes, moving the pan continually. Add the melon and saute for another 1 to 2 minutes or until the melon starts to take on color. Add the basil, salt, and pepper and continue to cook for another minute. Add the vinegar to the pan and toss to combine. Pour mixture onto a serving platter, sprinkle with the cheese and pine nuts, and serve immediately.

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recipe Hot Melon Salad
leigh san diego, CA 01-31-2007
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hot! melon! salad!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

oh so delicious. sweet fruit, feta cheese and onions, some of my favorites together as one. two words: mouth party.
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Nick West Seneca, NY 11-28-2005
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Melon Information for Rookies
Rated: 4 stars out of 5

Ive had Alton's recipe before, but it is important to note that Muskmelons and Cantaloupes are not the same thing. Ive... worked in a local North East supermarket for nine years, and I know a thing or two about produce. Muskmelons are like cantaloupes but have a "musky" taste and smell (sometimes the smell is overly "musky" and not enjoyable) and the skin is very soft due to the sweetness of the flesh. A Cantaloupe or "lope" is the normal type of orange fleshed melon that everyone consumes. A "lope" has a sweeter and firmer flesh that is brighter orange (unlike its slightly off color cousin know as the Muskmelon),con.Read more
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Anonymous 04-12-2005
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delicious
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

this is the best salad i had
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LAURIE Anchorage, AK 01-20-2005
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Yum!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

This recipe sounded too bizarre when AB presented it on a recent show but my 5 year old (who is enthralled with "Good Eats")... gamely wanted to make it. Used 1/2 musk melon and 1/2 watermelon. Fresh basil and pan toasting the pine nuts are absolutely essential. Used a terrific French sheep's milk feta - complex and not too salty. Serve and eat it straight away - doesn't really "keep". Looking forward to making this salad with al fresco summer meals.Read more
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MIKE syracuse, NY 01-16-2005
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this is something!!!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

i made this tonight for my bride & I, with some reserve I admitt, but let me asure you , A.B. has done it this time. It took... a little time , I admitt, but beleive me its worth it. I used "cantalope" & Honeydew, came out sweet & delisious. I used fresh basil and I think that helped. i'll make this for company this weekend.Read more
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JEN Malden, MA 01-08-2005
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Different way to eat melon
Rated: 4 stars out of 5

This was a very interesting and different way to eat melon - the feta and pine nuts are nice in combination with the melon,... and the red onion added some sweetness to my not-so-sweet-to-begin-with melon. I tried this with cantaloupe (or, as AB pointed, out, musk melon) and liked it, but I think it might be better with 1/2 and 1/2 musk melon and honeydew as he suggested in the show. Also, I substituted dry basil (can't really get fresh during a January snowstorm) but I bet it would be even better with the basil.Read more