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.

Overhead view of a blue plate with large grilled watermelon slices in a bed of salad - grilled watermelon salad

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.

Front view of a huge watermelon - grilled watermelon salad

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.

Front view of yellow sungold tomatoes - grilled watermelon salad

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.

Want to grow your own watermelons?  Wikihow shows you how to grow the perfect watermelon

grilled watermelon salad

Grilled Watermelon Salad with Goat Cheese and Beets

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Simple watermelon salad with arugula and goat cheese
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Course Salad
Cuisine American
Servings 2 people
Calories 586 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 4 slices watermelon cut into triangle shapes
  • 3 beets medium sized
  • 2 cups cherry tomatoes I used yellow cherry tomatoes
  • 1/2 cup Pepper Jelly You can add pepper flakes to regular jelly
  • 1/4 cup goat cheese cut into pieces
  • 2 cups mixed greens
  • 2 tsp Balsamic vinaigrette

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 375 degrees
  • Preheat grill
  • If you don’t have pepper jelly, take regular jelly and add pepper flakes
  • Wrap beets in foil and place on baking tray.
  • Placed wrapped beets into the oven and let cook for 45minutes to 1 hour.
  • At about 25 minutes in, turn over the beets in the baking tray
  • Remove the beets from the oven and remove from foil.
  • Let cool for about 10 minutes and then peel the skin
  • Brush the watermelon slices with the pepper jelly and place on grill.
  • Grill both sides of the watermelon. You can also use a stove top grill
  • Remove the watermelon and place aside
  • Cut the beets into bite size shapes and place on the grill.
  • Brush some pepper jelly on the beets
  • Grill the tomatoes just long enough to see the skin tighten.
  • In the salad plate, place the greens first
  • Place 2 grilled watermelons per plate
  • Add the tomatoes and beets to the salad plate
  • Divide the goat cheese for each plate and place it on top of the salad
  • Drizzle Pomegranate Balsamic vinegar on the salad and serve immediately

Notes

– I used raspberry jelly and then mixed some red pepper flakes in it

Nutrition

Serving: 2bowlsCalories: 586kcalCarbohydrates: 119gProtein: 13gFat: 9gSaturated Fat: 4gCholesterol: 13mgSodium: 278mgPotassium: 1559mgFiber: 7gSugar: 85gVitamin A: 4045IUVitamin C: 82.5mgCalcium: 138mgIron: 4.3mg
Keyword How to grill watermelons, summer watermelon salad recipes
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18 Comments

  1. Beets and goat cheese are a match made in heaven (I also believe in love at first site!) and I think the addition of the watermelon sounds perfect! Can’t wait to give this one a try!