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Watermelon Cucumber Salsa With Mint
Watermelon Cucumber Salsa With Mint
"This delicious watermelon cucumber salsa is one of a kind delicious as it combines juicy watermelon, cucumber, pepper, mint, and cilantro to create a tasty treat to eat with all your favorite dishes! This recipe is perfect to add to any summer BBQ. It is light, fresh, and flavor that pops, easily paired with chips or a great topper for chicken. Swap out the mint for basil to make Watermelon salsa with basil! This recipe you can make right before enjoying or ahead of time. If you make it ahead of time be sure to drain out the extra liquid prior to serving."
Serves8 people
Preparation Time10 min
Ingredients
- 4 cups seedless watermelon, diced into very small cubes
- 1 cup cucumber, diced into very small cubes
- 1 cup red onion, diced
- 2 eachs small jalapeno peppers, minced
- 1/4 cup chopped mint leaves
- 3/4 cup chopped cilantro leaves
- 1 each lime- zested and juiced
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The first step to making watermelon salsa is to cut the watermelon and cucumber first. Because watermelon and cucumber are filled with a lot of water it works best if you cut these first and place them in a strainer for about 10 minutes. This helps prevent you from having a watery watermelon salsa!
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Continue cutting the rest of the ingredients. We like 2 jalapenos in our watermelon salsa with mint, but that might be too much or not enough for you! So you, of course, can alter this. I always recommend doing a little and then adding a little at a time until you reach a level of spice that you like. When using jalapenos I usually take out all the seeds and discard them to reduce the heat as well.
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Pro Tip: If you are trying to impress your guests with your culinary skills, try to dice everything the same size, except the jalapeno. By doing this, it just escalates the beauty of the watermelon salsa!
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Once all the ingredients are cut (and you have drained the cucumber and watermelon) then place all the ingredients in a bowl and mix well.
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You can serve this immediately or cover and refrigerate for up to 3 days.
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