Simple watermelon salad with arugula and goat cheese

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Grilled watermelon salad with Goat cheese and beets is a sweet-spicy salad. It is easy to make. Add Sun-gold tomatoes to make it more colorful and healthy.

Love at first sight is a very real thing, I have discovered! Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

I fell in love with this watermelon the moment I set my eyes on it! I saw it from far, sitting by itself in the watermelon stand, just waiting for someone to carry it away. I made a beeline in that direction and my hands grabbed it, eagerly, like they were going out of style.

Yes, I picked it up and hurriedly carried it away! Didn’t want anyone else to take it.

Even though it is called a baby watermelon, it was heavy to carry. But I barely noticed that. All I could think was that the best watermelon falls into one’s lap when they are least expecting it.

Already, my mind was conjuring up thousands of recipes and wondering what kind of cheese will go best with it, what kind of tomato will best offset this melon, and so on…. I talk to many professional and amateur chefs about what inspires them. The common answer they give is that it takes just one ingredient and all their creative cooking brain cells awaken to form a recipe. I think that is what happened to me when I saw this gorgeous melon.

A while back, I had seen a recipe where the watermelon was grilled after being brushed with a pepper jelly. This would be the perfect time to try that recipe. I went around the supermarket and gathered up all the other ingredients that I thought would go perfect with this recipe.

The Grilled Watermelon Salad was now ready to be made into a delicious creation.

The Sun Gold cherry tomato would be the perfect color offset with this melon.

Beets add a darker red to it, salad greens will be the perfect green bed and Goat cheese will be the perfect strong taste to offset the sweet melon.

When this salad came together, I couldn’t believe how great it tasted (I brag ever so humbly!). The melon, when grilled with the pepper jelly, was the perfect blend of sweet and spicy. Add to it, the goat cheese and it was like I was in heaven!

The beets are the only thing that takes long to prepare. Everything else comes together instantly. I grilled the watermelon on a Panini maker. My grill decided that it wanted to go on strike after the last time I tried to grill too many persimmon tomatoes. Now that I know what its limitations are, I will be careful.

We go through a lot of watermelon in my home! The favorite recipe is using it in my watermelon curry. We also add it to water to bring for cleansing recipes. In the summer, watermelon makes for a delicious cool down granita recipe.

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Grilled Watermelon Salad!

