What’s In Season: Our Favorite Melon Recipes

Eating with the seasons is always a great idea — and fall in Colorado is especially delicious. Sample the bounty with our favorite melon recipes.

Autumn is prime with juicy peaches, garden-ripe tomatoes and fragrant melons. This end-of-summer bounty is something to celebrate! Here, our favorite melon recipes to keep the harvest on the plate a little longer.

Cantaloupe Salsa

Modified from Wicked Spatula
Calories: 16 | Total Carbs: 3g | Net Carbs: 3g | Sugar: 3g
Juicy, fresh and kinda tangy. Perfect to top your main or add to a bowl.

2 cups Cantaloupe (diced)
2 scallions, chopped 
1/4 cup fresh cilantro (minced)
2 tbsp basil, chopped
1 medium jalapeño (minced)
2 tablespoons lime juice
sea salt (to taste)

Toss all ingredients in a bowl to combine. Season as necessary with salt and pepper. Enjoy!

Melon, Shrimp + Avocado Salad

From BBC Good Food

1 small red onion, finely chopped 
1 garlic clove, crushed 
1 small jalapeno, minced 
juice 1 lime
1 tbsp rice or white wine vinegar 
1 tsp sugar 
½  cantaloupe melon, deseeded and chopped 
1 avocado, diced 
small bunch cilantro, chopped 
2 cups cooked shrimp, chopped

Put the onion in a medium bowl with the garlic, chili, lime juice, vinegar and sugar. Set aside to marinate for 10 mins. Combine with the melon, avocado, cilantro and shrimp. It’s quite pretty to serve on a butter lettuce leaf. Enjoy!

Tasty Make-Ahead Lunch Super Salad

Modified from BBC Good Food

1 ½ cup quinoa, cooked
2 tbsp pumpkin seeds (or sub other nut or seed)
½ melon, skin and seeds removed, cut into chunks
2 cups baby spinach, chopped
1 ripe avocado, peeled and sliced
½ small pack mint, finely chopped
2 tbsp chopped basil
juice 1 lime
2 tbsp olive oil

Cook quinoa according to package directions. Meanwhile, heat a frying pan over medium heat and toast pumpkin seeds for 1 min or until they start to pop. Set aside. Toss the melon, spinach, avocado, mint and basil. Top with the quinoa, then squeeze lime juice over with a pinch of seasoning. Drizzle with olive oil. Salt and pepper to taste.

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