Simple and delicious, this salad makes the most of summer’s favorite fruit, with a little extra (orange blossom!) to punch up the flavor.
On a hot day like today, this fruit salad – and a sprinkler – will be your best friend.
You’ll need:
- 4 cups watermelon, diced
- 2 cups strawberries, sliced
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/2 cup raw sugar
- 2 T orange blossom water (you can also use rose water – sparingly!)
- 1 t vanilla extract or 1/2 vanilla bean
1. Make the syrup first – in a small saucepan, combine sugar and water, add vanilla or vanilla bean. Bring to boil, stirring often then remove from heat and cool and strain. Add the orange blossom water to the cooled syrup.
2. Toss the watermelon and strawberries with about half of the syrup. Leave to ‘infuse’ for a bit.
3. Before serving, drizzle with remaining syrup. Garnish with some freshly chopped mint, if desired.
Yum! What a refreshing summer salad! And I love the orange blossom syrup, but I’m nuts about rose water. What a lovely idea. I’m posting this to my facebook page, my readers will love this!
Thanks so much, Karista! I’m glad you like rose water – sometimes it’s not everybody’s cup of tea:).
Haha! I like rose jelly, and rose tea. 🙂
Rose jelly – mmm.
how absolutely stunning, that must be divine.. c
Thanks, C! It’s so refreshing on a day like today. Hope you’re having a lovely day.
I love the different flavours in this salad my friend, it must be a definite refresher 🙂
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Thanks, Uru! It’s definitely necessary on a scorcher like today:).
The syrup sounds delicious.
Thank you! It would be great with other dishes as well.
Beautiful and perfect for this time of year!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it and welcome!
This looks refreshing and delicious. I have used rose water,but haven’t tried orange blossom syrup. I bet the flavor of this is amazing!
Thank you! It’s not too hard to find – the orange blossom water flavor is very subtle, but so summery and lightly flowery and sweet.
Sounds soo good! 🙂 I wish watermelons in winter were as good as they are in summer… 🙂
Very true! Me too.
I need to start adding some orange and rose blossom flower water to some of my recipes it sounds so lovely.
That is a very pretty and delicious looking salad. I think the vanilla bean in the syrup would add a wonderful flavour.
Thank you!
If I eat this, I could definitely channel summer…if only I could find some strawberries tho 🙂
Yes, indeed, it’s such a summery dish!