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This Melon and Prosciutto Salad with Mint Apple Cider Vinaigrette is a flavorful and delicious addition to your summer table! It’s gluten-free and grain-free, and packed with fresh mint, sweet melon, ripe avocado, salty prosciutto, and the most wonderful light vinaigrette dressing.
Melon Prosciutto Salad
This Melon Salad with Prosciutto screams summer! And it also screams delicious: it’s sweet, salty, tangy and creamy! There is so much going on with this salad and in a good way! You want to know what really takes it over the top though? The fresh mint! Seriously, it ties the whole salad together and is NOT TO BE MISSED.
This is the perfect salad to serve up as an appetizer at a summer party but it also works equally as well as a light salad that WILL leave you satisfied.
Here’s what is in this Melon and Prosciutto Salad:
- Olive Oil
- Apple cider vinegar
- Honey
- Dijon mustard
- Fresh Mint
- Arugula
- Cantaloupe
- Honeydew melon
- Mozzarella
- Prosciutto
- Avocado
Did you know you need to clean your melons before cutting?
Just in case you didn’t know! Make sure to clean your melons before cutting in them! Whenever you are cutting whole fruit, especially melons, you’ll want to wash the outside of the fruit in case there are any harmful germs on the outside of the fruit. Of course you aren’t eating the melon skin, but you are cutting through it, and the knife can transfer bacteria from the skin into the inner flesh as it gets dragged through! Simple scrub with a vegetable brush with warm water as you would potatoes!
If you like this fresh summer salad recipe, check out these others:
- Tomato Cucumber Salad with Crispy Chickpeas (& Green Yogurt Dressing)
- Gluten-Free BLT Pasta Salad
- Watermelon Ahi Tuna Salad
- Mexican Street Corn Salad [VIDEO]
Melon Salad with Prosciutto
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 3 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- 1 tablespoons maple syrup or honey add more to taste
- 1/2 teaspoon dijon mustard more to taste
- 1 teaspoon finely chopped mint
- big pinch of salt and big pinch of pepper
- 1 shallot minced
- 2 cups fresh arugula
- 1 cantaloupe sliced into half moons or cubed
- 1 honeydew melon diced
- 1 8- ounce container small mozzarella balls
- 15-20 slices prosciutto
- 1 avocado sliced
- 1/4 cup mint leaves thinly sliced
Instructions
- In a small bowl, whisk together the salad dressing ingredients. Taste and adjust seasoning as needed.
- Assemble all salad ingredients on a serving platter.
- Drizzle 1/2 of dressing over salad right before serving serve with more dressing on the side!
Notes
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This post is sponsored by Rubbermaid FreshWorks. All opinions are always, 100% my own!
I would love to use these containers for my weekly salad fixings for my lunches!
Hi Lexi, just opened my facebook page to see a wonderful summer salad. just brightened my day thank you!!!!
You made MY DAY! Enjoy!
Yummy looking salad.
Love how fresh the salad looks! Would love to have these for my workday lunches!
These sound amazing. Would love to keep fruit and veggies fresh longer. My girls love the summer fruit!
I would love to win these! We go through a lot of produce and it would be extremely helpful to have these prolonging the life of our produce.
These containers look awesome. Can’t wait to try them. Introducing fresh produce into every meal, these would be a huge help in keeping everything fresher longer. And with all the herbs, fruits & vegetables starting to come out of my garden, I’m sure I’m going to be on overload soon.
IDK why I have an issue with fruit and meat in the same bowl/salad. It turns me off. If I’m presented with such a dish, I usually one, not both.
This salad looks soooo good! The flavor and texture combinations sound like they would be perfect together. I look forward to giving it a try!
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This looks delicious! I find melon always goes so fast. These containers look like they would last until we finish them!
That salad looks yummy! I hate when I have to throw out fresh produce – these would certainly help!
Can’t wait to try this healthy looking salad soon.
These would be perfect for storing all the farmers market produce I get!
Salad looks great one I must try soon!! Would love to try these containers too!
We love to have fresh veggies on hand at all times and this would save so much!
Have seen these but haven’t tried them yet…would love to do so!!
Just got a melon today from the last CSA for our season. Looking forward to trying this recipe.
I never seem to have enough storage containers. Using these would help keep veggies fresh and free up more containers for other foods!
Sounds delicious! Storage containers to keep things fresh longer would be fabulous