Watermelon and tomato salad with feta and pumpkin seeds
4
Points®
Total time: 20 min • Prep: 20 min • Cook: 0 min • Serves: 4 • Difficulty: Easy
This refreshing salad is a wonderful mixture of sweet, salty, tart, and peppery. Yellow tomatoes offer a beautiful colour contrast to the pink watermelon, but if not in season, red tomatoes will be just as delicious.
Ingredients
Watermelon
3 cup(s), seedless, cut into chunks
Fresh tomatoes
10 oz, cut into chunks
Fresh basil
½ cup(s), torn
Red onion
¼ medium, sliced, or less to taste
Fresh lime juice
3 tbsp(s)
Olive oil
2 tsp(s)
Table salt
½ tsp(s)
Fresh watercress
4 cup(s)
Crumbled feta cheese
8 tbsp(s)
Green pumpkin seeds (pepitas)
4 tbsp(s), (pepitas), toasted
Instructions
1
In a large bowl, toss together watermelon, tomatoes, basil, onion, lime juice, oil, salt and pepper.
2
Arrange 1 c watercress on each of 4 serving plates; top each with 1 c watermelon mixture, 2 Tbsp cheese and 1 Tbsp pumpkin seeds. Evenly drizzle salads with any remaining liquid in bottom of bowl; serve immediately to prevent mixture from getting too soggy.
3
Serving size: 1 salad
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