9 recipes for juicy, in-season melon

Don't let watermelon hog the spotlight.

Updated July 10, 2024

This ginger-flavoured soup is fabulous to begin a weekend brunch. And while it works with light sour cream, you'll get a better texture if you use regular.

Strawberry-rhubarb granita.
Photo, Michael Graydon.

10 melon recipes

Minty Melon Salad With Burrata Cheese

Fresh fruit comes alive under mint, basil and creamy burrata cheese. Try it at your next Sunday brunch for a crowd-pleasing treat. Get our minty melon salad with burrata cheese recipe.

A fresh melon and burrata cheese salad with fresh mint on a grey plate topped with a serving spoon and fork, next to a bowl of fresh mint and a small salt bowl and a pepper mill

Cantaloupe Granita

This Mediterranean frozen-fruit dessert, (cantaloupe shown in middle, above) is cooly crystalline and the perfect treat. Alone or layered in a parfait, this is a recipe you want to try before summer's out. Get the cantaloupe granita recipe.

Two strawberry-rhubarb granitas on a tray, the drinks are layered with green kiwi granita on top then orange granita then the strawberryy rhubarb granita at the bottom with spoons next to them on a pink background

(Photo: Michael Graydon)

Crisp Melon And Tomato Salad

A delicious and fragrant salad course, the melons, tomatoes and basil are a refreshingly simple flavour combination. Toss with a light honey and vinegar dressing, and serve. Get our crisp melon and tomato salad recipe.

Honeydew-Lime Paleta

Move over gelato! Paletas, Latin American icy fruit treats, are the fun and easy way to cool down this summer. Just mix fresh, juicy honeydew with sugar, water, and lime, then freeze. Get our honeydew-lime paleta recipe.

Green honeydew and lime paletas, orange Peach-Ginger Paletas, white and green Pina-Colada Paletas, and pink Raspberry And Mango Swirl Paletas with their names written on their popsicle sticks in cursive writing in an ice bucket for a recipe for four fresh fruit paletas

Cantaloupe agua fresca

Take a juicy, ripe cantaloupe and turn it into a cool and refreshing drink in just 10 minutes. Get the recipe.

Photo, Roberto Caruso.

Shrimp and watermelon tostadas

Crunchy and zesty, with a hint of sweetness, this modern shrimp starter covers all the bases! Get the recipe.

Photo, Roberto Caruso.

Chilled cantaloupe and strawberry soup

This fruit-filled, gingery soup is fabulous to begin a weekend brunch. It's also an easy way to use up (nearly) overripe fruit! Get the recipe.

Spicy melon and prosciutto skewers

Sweet and spicy, these skewers are a brunch-friendly appetizer course, or a satisfying late-afternoon snack. Get the recipe.

Fresh fruit medley with ginger-mint drizzle

All it takes to turn a fruit platter from drab to fab is a drizzle of our easy ginger-and-mint-infused syrup. It adds a sophisticated touch. Get the recipe.

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