Prawn, Melon and Orange Salad

Name: Prawn, Melon and Orange Salad
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: ½ melon; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 4 tbsp sour cream; juice of 1 lemon; 2 garlic cloves, crushed; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 1 orange; 150 g cooked cold water prawns; 150 g cooked cold water prawns; 4 tbsp mayonnaise

Preparation info

Serves
6–8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Gloagburn

By Alison Niven

Published 2025

About

This is my go-to salad: easy and delicious! My mum, Helen, has been making it for years – it is very flexible and can be scaled up or down depending on how many you need to feed. You can leave out the prawns for veggies.

Ingredients

½ melon
1 orange
150 g cooked cold water prawns

United Kingdom
Scottish
Fish course
Gluten-free
Pescatarian
Scotland

Method

First, make the dressing straight into your salad bowl: whisk together the mayonnaise, sour cream, lemon juice and garlic and season to taste with salt and freshly ground black pepper.
Scrape any seeds out of the melon, then cut off the rind and chop the flesh into bite-size chunks. With a small, sharp knife, cut the peel and pith off the orange, then slice the