Watermelon Peach Salad. – Half Baked Harvest

Summer season Watermelon Peach Salad. Candy watermelon, summer time peaches, backyard basil, and salty feta cheese – all mixed to create a colourful salad that’s easy, fairly, and so scrumptious! End this easy summer time salad with a candy honey French dressing. Each chunk bursts in your mouth with watermelon, peaches, and feta cheese. It truly is summer time in a salad!

To me, this salad screams summertime. The one time of 12 months to make it’s now by way of August, when the watermelon is good, and the peaches are ripe and plentiful!

After I was youthful, my mother would host so many summer time events, and also you all, her events weren’t small. She’d host birthdays, Father’s Days, late-night Fourth of July events, and each different occasion in between. She was a PRO, and with most of her events reaching 30+ individuals on common, she knew how one can serve a crowd.

Her tacky potatoes had been all the time a staple. In the summertime, there was grilled rooster, burgers, and ribs, after which, in fact, her Special K-Bars (this was the second recipe I ever posted on the location!). No summer time celebration was ever completed till Mother served her Ok-bars; they’re legendary.

The one different dish that all the time made an look at summer time events was fruit salad. If mother was making the fruit salad, it was principally only a bunch of cubes, watermelon, cantaloupe, and honeydew.

However extra instances than not, my Mother was good, and normally let my Nonnie carry the fruit salad. When Nonnie introduced the fruit salad, it was all the time from Edible Preparations and it was my favourite dish of the evening. I might eat all of the watermelon, cantaloupe, and strawberries, not stopping till my abdomen was so full. I LOVED the watermelon, and I swear, the lovable association made it style even higher.

However the household celebration fruit salads typically lacked cheese and herbs, and there was by no means a dressing. Whereas I like the simplicity of a bowl of fruit, I assumed we’d add some taste to one in all my favourite summer time dishes. Nonnie would have LOVED this salad; I do know it.

Step 1: organize the salad

Discover a large salad bowl and organize the watermelon and peaches collectively. Add the feta cheese. Then, I add a lot of recent basil leaves and pistachios. I like the salty crunch the pistachios present, which makes the fruit much more addicting.

For those who wished, you may actually add strawberries to this as properly.

Step 2: make the French dressing

We’re utilizing my go-to balsamic fig, besides I swapped the balsamic vinegar for champagne vinegar and added a little bit of honey. It’s tangy and candy, which I actually get pleasure from on fruit-based salads.

Step 3: toss it

Now, take the dressing and pour it over the salad.

At this level, it’s greatest to serve the salad. The longer the watermelon sits, the extra water it releases.

That is a type of recipes I all the time make as a result of it’s quick, straightforward, wholesome, and scrumptious. And it’s, in fact, so fairly. That provides it main bonus factors!

I’m excited for you all to make this subsequent week for the 4th. It’s loopy that we’re midway by way of the 12 months, and the 4th is simply days away!

In search of different watermelon recipes, strive these:

Blueberry, Melon, Feta, Fruit Salad Stacks

Frosted Watermelon Rosemary Frosé

Salted Spicy Watermelon Margarita Popsicles

Smoky Watermelon Lemon Margarita

Pink Vodka Watermelon Lemonade

Strawberry Watermelon Salad with Burrata

Lastly, for those who make this Watermelon Peach Salad, make sure to go away a remark and/or give this recipe a score! Above all, I like to listen to from you guys and all the time do my greatest to reply to each remark. And, in fact, for those who do make this recipe, don’t overlook to tag me on Instagram! Wanting by way of the photographs of recipes you all have made is my favourite!