Recipe: Perfect Watermelon and Feta salad

Watermelon and Feta salad. This healthy and refreshing salad with watermelon, feta cheese, and fresh mint is dressed with olive oil and lime juice. Watermelon feta salad is one of those flavor combinations that sounds odd, but just works SO well together. Add some crisp and refreshing cucumbers and mint to the mix, and you've got a fresh and colorful side dish that everyone will love.

Throw in some mint, red onion, and feta and toss it all with a very simple vinaigrette (just olive oil + red wine vinegar), and you've got yourself a mean summer salad. This delicious, refreshing watermelon salad recipe is meant for hot summer days. With feta, avocado, mint & lime, it's the perfect mix of savory & sweet. You can cook Watermelon and Feta salad using 8 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Watermelon and Feta salad

Prepare 1 of small whole seedless watermelon.
It's 1/2 of red onion, thinly sliced.
You need of Juice of two limes.
Prepare 1 c of pitted kalamata olives.
Prepare 1/2 lb of feta cheese.
It's 1/2 c of parsley and mint.
It's to taste of red pepper flakes or chili oil.
Prepare of Drizzle of extra virgin olive oil.

I love a good sweet & savory combination, and this watermelon salad with feta, mint, avocado, and a tangy lime dressing is exactly that. Watermelon and feta kinda run in my blood. I have always loved the combination of salty feta over sweet, cool watermelon. Today's watermelon salad recipe is inspired by that childhood love.

Watermelon and Feta salad step by step

Finely slice red onion and marinate in the juice of two limes and set aside..
Cut watermelon first in half..
Then cut it into wedges.
Then cut like this.
And this....
And finally like this to make equal sized bite size pieces.
This is what the watermelon looks like all cut up.
Then rinse the olives and cut them in half.
Then cut up the feta like this.
And then make small cubes.....
Then mix it all together with the parsley, mint, a drizzle of olive oil and pepper, chili oil or red pepper flakes to taste. I like the combination of spice with the cool watermelon, the creamy and salty feta and the herbs. Delicious and healthy too!.

It's the neater, more grown up version with a big flavor punch from fresh herbs and a zesty. The first time tried watermelon in a salad with Feta, I was in a very trendy neighborhood eatery in Brooklyn and I loved it. All the ingredients compliment each so well and it's so pretty to look at too. I've brought it to parties and everyone loved it, just double or triple the recipe and make the dressing on. This easy summer watermelon salad is perfect to make for eating under the warm sun.