A cold melon soup with ham, an easy and fresh starter, a healthy summer plate of fruit
Melon is a very good fruit and perfect for hot days, as it contains a lot of water, many vitamins and few calories. To make this recipe, it is better to be ripe, so the melon sweet and the rest of the flavors are a good combination.
Cold melon soup with ham
Author Montse Morote
Recipe type: Starters
Rations: 4
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Ingredients
- ½ kilo of melon
- 5 tablespoons of liquid cream
- A little bit of nutmeg or black pepper
- A little bit of salt
- Cured ham shavings
- Olive oil (optional)
- White vermouth (optional)
Preparation
- We split the melon and remove the pipes, remove a few balls with a scoop or a teaspoon and reserve.
- Cut the rest of the melon into pieces and put it in a bowl, with the cream, a pinch of nutmeg or pepper if you like and a little salt.
- We will crush everything, if we like the cream that is finer we will pass it through the Chinese. We will taste it with salt and leave it to our liking.
- We will leave it in the refrigerator for a couple of hours or until it is time to serve it, it must be very cold.
- When we go to prepare it, we take a few glasses or in glasses and we will put a few melon balls that we have reserved.
- We cover with the very cool cream and we will put on top some strips of ham, some melon ball and a drizzle of oil if you like.
- If you want to give more flavor to the soup and there are no children, you can put a few tablespoons of white vermouth, it is great and gives it another flavor.
- Clever !!!