This delicious and refreshing Easy Baller Summer Salad is super quick and fun to make and comes together in minutes – it makes a great addition to a summer BBQ party menu!
EASY BALLER SUMMER SALAD
I am celebrating the first day of summer with this colourful and zesty Easy Baller Summer Salad. It’s a mixture of fruit and veg, something I have been experimenting with a lot lately. I used cantaloupe but you can use other types of melon if you prefer. This salad recipe is not only easy it is also quite flexible!
Fruit and veg in one dish is more than just a salad, to me it’s really a ‘salad meets dessert’ kind of dish. As it is quite sweet chances are it will take care of your sugar cravings! Which is great if you are watching your diet and trying to stay away from ‘serious’ desserts.
This easy salad is sweet, zingy and refreshing and absolutely perfect served at a summer barbecue. You will need a melon baller to create equal sized ball shapes of the fruit and veg. This is so much more fun to do than the usual chopping and slicing! The melon baller is also quite easy to use, even if you’ve never used it before (like me!).
I also used my lemon baller to make these Roasted Peppers and Silken Tofu in Tomato Sauce.
This little gadget proved also really handy in making this Spicy Quinoa Stuffed Eggplant recipe.
You can chill this summer salad, without the dressing, for about 30 minutes and add the dressing just before serving.
If you make this recipe I’d love to know how it turned out for you so leave a quick comment below. Your feedback is important to me! Thanks!
If you like this recipe you may also like these other easy, delicious Salad recipe ideas.
Easy Baller Summer Salad
Ingredients
- 150 g mozzarella pearls
- 1 avocado
- 1 papaya seeds removed
- 1/2 cantaloupe seeds removed
- A piece of cucumber about 20 cm long
- Salt and pepper to taste
For the dressing
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh mint
- 2 tablespoons good vegetable oil
- 3 tablespoons lemon juice
- zest of 1 lemon
Instructions
- Do not peel the fruit and vegetables. Using a melon baller scoop out sphere shaped pieces of the fruit and vegetables. You should have a more or less equal amount of each ingredient. Combine, drizzle with the dressing, season and serve.
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Hi, I am Monika, welcome to Everyday Healthy Recipes! This blog is all about creatively simple recipes with a healthy twist, old classics with a modern take, and an occasional Polish dish thrown into the mix - all easy to make, healthy and delicious, perfect for everyday cooking. 
So healthy and vibrant, what stunning photos!
I am always glad to know somebody liked my photos as it’s not exactly my forte, thanks!
This sounds so good and perfect for summer. The kids would love this as well as the adults! I love the addition of avocado. Thank you for sharing with #CookBlogShare x
Thanks Kirsty! My kids certainly enjoyed helping to make it and eat it:)
What a lovely mixture of fruit and vegetables in this salad and a of course a great way to test out a new melon baller! It would be great for a summer garden party.
Thanks Corina! I am actually going to a party in a few days so I’ll be using my melon baller again, lets hope it doesn’t rain so we can enjoy the food in the garden:)
I love this!! Such a great idea. I use my melon baller a lot but mostly for hollowing out veggies like courgettes and aubergines prior to stuffing. Must add this salad to the list 🙂
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Thanks! I just bought my melon baller and have only used it for this salad, I am glad to find out it is so versatile:)
This looks so refreshing and fun with the ball shaped pieces. Perfect now that the summer months have arrive. #CookBlogShare
Angela x
Thanks Angela, I love my new melon baller, I’ll be using it a lot this summer:)
I am sure this will be my favorite pick of the month! This is an amazing salad for summers 🙂
Thanks so much:)