Shaved Melon Salad with Mint Sugar

Summy melon - delicious and sweet with crunchy sugar flavored with mint.

This recipe calls for watermelon, cantaloupe, and honeydew, but who could never store all 3 in their refrigerator? My daughter has been wanting to make this, and we finally decided to give it a go with just cantaloupe.

Shaving the melon was a bit tricky - slices are cut with a vegetable peeler - parallel to where the seeds had been. We happened to have both a very ripe and a slightly green melon (thank you CSA farmer). We started with the ripe one, but it was very hard to get the think shaved slices (mostly a puddle of melon juice). The less ripe one worked much better. I think a newer/sharper peeler would also have helped.

The stunning addiiton of a granular sugar mixed with fresh mint really elevated this recipe. It not only gave a cool mint flavor, but the sugar gave an awesome crunch. I hope to borrow this mint sugar idea for other desserts.

UPDATE: This mint sugar, on slices of fresh (local) peaches, and a bit of yogurt was amazing!