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Greek Watermelon Salad With Pinenuts

Fresh, super quick yet delicious is Greek Style Watermelon Salad with Pine nuts. Perfect side for your next BBQ!!

The weather is starting to get warmer in my part of the world and there will a lot of salads, fresh fruits and less of spicy meals on the menu. And warmer weather also mean my favorite fruit, yessss I’m talking watermelon.

Watermelon has always been my favorite summer fruit since childhood and now it’s A & A’s too. We want our watermelon everyday be it cold refreshing juice, or simply a slice of it sprinkled with some salt, or a margarita, sorbet, popsicles and the list just goes on and yet we never get bored of it. A good watermelon is seriously a slice of heaven.

Not only delicious it is but this fruit do has a lot of health benefits as it has significant levels of vitamin A, B6 & C, has loads of antioxidants and our best part it is fat free. 

Usually during the warmer days I make it point to do a lot of fresh fruit platters and salads too wherein I throw in a lot of fresh fruits. In a way is the best way to get those doze of fruits which at times we tend to miss out on.

This Greek style watermelon salad is so refreshing, juicy, sweet, salty and with all the gorgeous colors. Our favorite and just perfect side to any meals and we’ve been eating this salad two days in a row.

Serve chilled with some grilled chicken or simply toss up a pasta dish.  Just perfect for or bbq all summer.

The salad has so many different flavor combinations – cold crisp watermelon, red onions, feta cheese, kalamata olives, cucumber, herbs in a simple dressing of extra virgin olive oil and lemon juice. Everything just compliments so well with each other. The creamy and salty feta cheese, sweetness from of watermelon, the tanginess from olives, cucumber creates explosion of flavors. So good and worth it.

And a great way to use your watermelon I mean if are just bored of eating it on its own. And trust me if you are the one who does not like fruit in your salads then this one is sure to make you change your mind.

Easy to make and bang on flavors. Hope you guys will enjoy this as much as we did!!

Until next time.

Much Love

K

Greek Watermelon Salad With Pine Nuts

Fresh, super quick yet delicious is Greek Style Watermelon Salad with Pine nuts. Perfect side with your meals.

  • 4 cups Watermelon Cubed & Chilled
  • 1 small Red Onion Sliced
  • 1/3 cup Kalamata Olives
  • 1 cup Cucumber Diced
  • 2 tbsp Pine Nuts
  • 2 tbsp Fresh Parsley chopped
  • 1/4 cup Fresh Mint Chopped
  • 1/2 cup Feta Cheese Crumbled
  • 2 tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil
  • 2 tbsp Lemon Juice
  • 1/2 tsp Herbs de Provence
  • 1/2 tsp Freshly Ground Pepper

  1. For the dressing mix together Olive Oil, lemon juice, herbs de provence, salt and pepper in a small bowl. Set aside

  2. In a large salad bowl combine watermelon, cucumber, olives, red onions, pine nuts, chopped parsley, chopped mint.

  3. Pour the dressing over the salad and toss gently to combine. Sprinkle feta on top and serve.