Use black pepper, salt, or a lime, salt, and chile combination.
2. Use it to make sandwiches.
On heartier sandwiches like roast beef with stilton, replace tomato slices with extremely thin slices of watermelon (no peel).
3. Revive Your Caprese
Watermelon and mint are added to give this classic a fresh start.
4. Add Feta. (also see our post on Watermelon Skewers)
5. It's delicious with prosciutto
The traditional Italian combination of cantaloupe and prosciutto is unbeatable. It's delicious on its own, but it's even better with slices of prosciutto-wrapped watermelon on top of a salad.
6. Toss it in with ceviche
The crisp crunch of extremely fresh watermelon may lend wonderful texture and a tropical vibe to a bowl of ceviche. Shrimp and lobster have a natural sweetness that goes nicely with watermelon.
7. Make a Salad Out of It
You may use a variety of watermelon varieties as the lead component, with tomato and avocado for added depth.
8. Actually, just toss it into any salad.
A handful of diced watermelon may be added to almost any fresh summertime salad to add sweetness, crunch, and wetness.
9. Try giving Gazpacho a New Lease on Life
10. Make Salsa out of it
Serve it with spicy pork tacos or fresh tortilla chips
11. Cook it on the grill
Put a slice of watermelon on the grill for a few seconds and you've flipped one of summer's most refreshing fruits on its head.
12. Pickle It
Pickling those rinds into a tart snack is a great way to save them. Pickled rinds go well in salads, as a side dish with roasted meats, and as a bar snack.
13. Serve with seafood.
Watermelon may be a fantastic and refreshing side dish with fresh, flaky fish like sea bass or branzino, as well as sweet shrimp or scallops.
14. Make Easy Freezer Pops with It
Don't have time to fill frozen pop molds? Fresh watermelon cubes are cut into cubes, ice pop sticks are inserted, and the watermelon pops are frozen.
15. Make Flavored Water from It
To make DIY flavored water, toss frozen watermelon cubes into your water pitcher.
