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The sun, heat, summer, August, and therefore the watermelon fever was officially started! Finally, you can not be afraid of nitrates and inflated prices. All fans of this great, delicious berries are skillfully exhausted and performing itself to the table the most commonly and sweetest. Did you know that watermelon is 92% consists of water, as well as it is rich in calcium, sodium, potassium, magnesium - all of the fact that it is necessary to maintain a water balance of the body in the heat. In general, there are 1200 watermelons in the world, and the largest watermelon has grown in the United States in 2013. His weight in 159 kilograms recorded the Book of Records of Guinness. The Japanese even invented to grow watermelons of a cubic form, so that they were conveniently held in the refrigerator. The easiest way to combat this berries for all a long time known, but not everything is unequivocally. Watermelon can surprise you too, and its skin - to turn into a goody. Here are some interesting recipes for watermelon gourmet:

1. Watermelon with a cottage

To a salted fossil add a finely chopped kernel and grated beam of lime. The flesh of watermelon separate from the skin, remove the stones and cut large cubes. We are preparing a refueling: crushing Lyme juice, add honey and olive oil, mix everything well. Then pour out refueling on watermelon, mix, teach a telephone and sprinkle all the crushed peppermint. You can add pink pepper as well.

2. Fried watermelon with chicken

First, prepare marinade: I squeeze orange juice, add 1 tablespoon of soy sauce and as many sugar, cut there root of ginger with peel, and add some garlic teeth. Dip in Marinade 2 Chicken breasts for 1 hour. Cut the watermelon together with slices with triangular pieces, thickness - not less than 1.5 cm. (Above the form preserved with hot). Remove stones. Roasting a chicken first in a frying pan, and then bake in an oven until ready. Marinade that stood, strain through a sieve. On a frying pan, add oils and marinades and in this mixture on a large heat for a slightly frying watermelon. Do not go down, the middle should be fresh. Teach a finished chicken for watermelon, decorate her greens.

3. Candied watermelon

For a good thing we need 1 kg. White skin of watermelon (without pulp and without green external peel) and 500 gr. sugar. The peel cuts with cubes 1 cm x 1 cm. Suggested with sugar and leave in a warm place for 12 hours. The resulting mixture is 10 minutes. and leave to be lined. Get a candidate, and add a tea spoon of citric acid in the syrup. Syrup is boiled for 15 minutes, add candied and enter everything together for another 15-20 min. Leave a mixture until full of lining. Then teach candy for parchment and drying in an oven for 1 hour. at a temperature of 100 degrees. In this case, the oven must be opened. Then the candies should still be dried on a tray 3 days at room temperature. Ready candies can be sprinkled with sugar, so that they did not stick. Store the goodies should be in a glass container.

4. Watermelon stripes

Bought no sweet watermelon? - Do not trouble, cook a lane! Clean the watermelon from the skin, remove the stones and cut the cubes. Half cubes frozen in a freezer. To watermelon add a tablespoon of lemon juice and honey to taste, grind everything with a blender. Then add frozen watermelon cubes and also grab. Decorate with a strip of mint.

5. Watermelon and tomato salad

The flesh of watermelon is separated from the skin, remove the stones and sliced ​​with pieces. Add chopped tomatoes (appetizing to the tomatoes of yellow color). All mix. Top with pieces of cheese "Feta" or "Brynza". Add mint and basil leaves. Lovers of hotels can add chili crushed pepper. The finished salad is filled with olive oil. Mix everything directly when filing.

6. Canapes from watermelon and cheese "Brie"

Here it is better to use watermelon without stones to be tight and kept on a skewer for a canapé. Chicken with cheese cheese "Brie", cut every cube into two halves (solid part of cheese will serve as a convenient bottom of our canapes). On the cheese, teach a small leaf of rust. Top puts chopped watermelon cubes and, if desired, slightly watering all the sauce "Balm". Fasten the Canapes with special skewers. Tasty watermelon summer!