Summer melon and prawn salad

Name: Summer melon and prawn salad
Prep time: 25 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1 ripe Charentais melon; 1⁄2 small ripe galia melon; 1 wedge watermelon; 1 papaya; 1 lime; 200 (7fl oz) thick mayonnaise; Salt and ground black pepper; 225 (8oz) large cooked, peeled prawns (see tip); Extra grated lime rind and lime halves to garnish

This is a quick and easy salad recipe that we love! Prepare the dish hours in advance and pop in the fridge until serving...it couldn't be easier!

By Lindsay NicholsonPublished: 07 June 1997

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Preparation Notes: plus chilling

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Yields:

Prep Time:

25 mins

Total Time:

25 mins

Ingredients

1 ripe Charentais melon
1⁄2 small ripe galia melon
1 wedge watermelon
1 papaya
1 lime
200 (7fl oz) thick mayonnaise
Salt and ground black pepper
225 (8oz) large cooked, peeled prawns (see tip)
Extra grated lime rind and lime halves to garnish

Directions

1. Step 1
  Thickly slice the melons. Scoop out the seeds and strain them, reserving juice. Cover and chill melons separately. Thickly slice papaya, removing seeds if wished. Grate lime rind and squeeze juice.
2. Step 2
  Stir lime rind and 30ml (2tbsp) each lime and melon juice into mayonnaise. Season with salt and ground black pepper. Mix mayonnaise and prawns together.
3. Step 3
  Garnish prawns with lime rind; serve with the lime halves and chilled melon and papaya slices.
  
  More prawn recipes for dinner parties:
  
  Spicy butterfly prawns
  
  Prawn and guacamole cocktail
  
  Prawn and melon salad
  
  Party prawns
  
  Smoked salmon with prawn and avocado salsa

Frozen prawns

If using frozen, cooked, peeled prawns for a salad, thaw at cool room temperature, then pat dry on absorbent kitchen paper before folding into the mayonnaise.