Chilled Cantaloupe Soup

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Ingredients:

• 1/3 cantaloupe peeled seeded and cubed
• 1/3 cup orange juice
• 1 teaspoon lime juice
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon nutmeg
• 5 mint leaves chopped

Steps:

• Combine cantaloupe and orage juice in a blender; process until smooth
• Transfer mixture into a large bowl
• Stir in lime juice cinnamon and nutmeg
• Chill for 1 hour
• Stir in mint leaves and serve
• Enjoy

Frosty Summer Watermelon Cooler

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Ingredients:

• 2 frozen bananas
• 2 cups seeded watermelon
• 1 cup apple juice

Steps:

• In a blender pour the apple juice and add the frozen bananas
• Add the chunks of watermelon
• Blend on high until the consistency of a drink

Fruit and Flower Salad

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Ingredients:

• 1/2 cantaloupe
• 1 cup fresh pineapple cubed
• 1/2 pint fresh strawberries
• 1/2 pint fresh blackberries
• 1 banana peeled and thinly sliced
• 1 cup green seedless grape
• 1 mango peeled and cubed
• 4 ounces swiss cheese
• 2 tablespoons rose water to taste
• 1 cup plain low-fat yogurt
• 4 tablespoons mango chutney to taste
• 1/2 cup almonds toasted
• 1 cup fresh edible flower

Steps:

• Combine fruit and cheese in bowl
• Sprinkle with rosewater
• Blend yoghurt and chutney
• Pour over salad
• toss if desired
• To serve spoon individual portions and garnish with flowers

Melon Gelato Normal or Gluten Free Version

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Ingredients:

• 500 g melon cantaloupe peeled and chopped
• 100 ml soy cream or single cream
• 1 egg white whisked to firm peaks
• 60 g sugar

Steps:

• Put the chopped melon in the freezer for a couple of hours This helps the ice cream machine along
• Blend the melon with the sugar until very smooth and frothy
• Add the cream and blend further
• Pour the melon mixture into the ice cream machine until it has the consistency of soft ice cream With the machine still going add in the whisked whites These will become incorporated into the ice cream making it softer
• I have made this ice cream without the egg white sucsessfully

Otai

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Ingredients:

• 1 pineapple
• 1/4 medium watermelon
• 1 coconut fresh
• 2 tablespoons sugar more to taste
• 1 cup water

Steps:

• Grate the pineapple into a large container
• Finely chop the watermelon or scrape the melon and the juice into the pineapple
• Sprinkle with sugar
• Add the fresh coconut flesh directly to the fruit or by making a rich coconut cream from the grated coconut and adding the cream to the fruit juices
• Dilute with the water
• Chill and serve

Thai Cantaloupe Soup

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Ingredients:

• 1 medium cantaloupe
• 3 tablespoons canola oil
• 1 small onion chopped
• 3/4 cup grape tomatoes or 1 tomato chopped
• 2 cups water
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 3 teaspoons nuoc nam fish sauce
• 1 green onion minced
• 2 tablespoons peanuts chopped
• 1 tablespoon cilantro minced

Steps:

• Half cantalope
• discard seeds
• scoop out flesh and set aside
• Reserve shells to use for bowls
• Heat oil in a saucepan
• Add onion
• Saut 2 minutes
• Add cantaloupe flesh and tomatoes
• Cook 5 minutes
• Add the next 5 ingredients
• Bring to a boil
• Reduce
• Simmer 5 minutes
• Pure in batches
• Return to pot
• Re-heat
• Ladle into shells
• Top with the last 3
• YUM