Salted and Peppered Melon

Melão com Sal e Pimenta, Molho de Manga e Pimentão Amarelo

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4–6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Brazilian Kitchen: 100 Classic and Contemporary Recipes for the Home Cook

By Leticia Moreinos Schwartz

Published 2012

  • About

A perfect piece of melon that I enjoyed on a hot day in Rio is the inspiration for this recipe. Sweet and juicy melon marries quite well with savoury foods and it takes the pepper and fleur de sel right in. The mango and yellow pepper sauce is a perfect complement to the lushness of the melon. The orangey-pink flesh of the cantaloupe and its firm, creamy texture make it the perfect melon to receive a quick sear in the frying pan. However, the abundance of melons available today are too vari