Light And Refreshing

Watermelon Grapefruit Salad

with tomatoes and cilantro
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Difficulty:
easy
Difficulty
Preparation:
20 min.
Preparation
ready in 24 min.
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Healthy, because

Even smarter

The vitamin C in lemons and grapefruit helps protect the body's cells and boost the immune system. The bitter substance naringenin from the grapefruit also boosts fat burning. 

You can always substitute the fresh coriander with flat-leaft parsley or mint. 

Ingredients

for
4
Ingredients
2 organic lemons
1 Vanilla bean (slit)
4 tsps sugar
4 Tbsps olive oil
Sea salt
freshly ground peppers
2 Grapefruit
3 Tomatoes
10 ozs Watermelon
1 Red onion
4 fresh cilantro
How healthy are the main ingredients?
Watermelonsugarolive oillemonGrapefruitTomato

Preparation steps

1.

Rinse lemons in hot water, pat dry, grate zest of one lemon and cut zest into fine strips. Squeeze juice from both fruit. Combine lemon juice with lemon zest, vanilla seeds and sugar in a saucepan and simmer for 4 minutes. Add oil and season with salt and pepper. Peel grapefruit, removing as much pith as possible, and fillet (halve fillets if desired). Rinse and thinly slice tomatioes. Slive melon or cut into bite-sized pieces.

2.

Peel, halve and thinly slice onion. Rinse cilantro, shake dry and pluck off leaves. Combine melon, grapefruit, tomato, onion and cilantro in a bowl and toss with the dressing. Arrange on plates and serve. 

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