Honeydew Blueberry Salad with Blue Cheese

Not your typical summer fruit salad, this honeydew melon salad with blueberries and blue cheese makes an impressive starter or side. With cool, crisp cucumbers and a mint lime dressing, this honeydew salad recipe is healthy and refreshing!

Perfect for warm summer days! This honeydew melon salad was a great way to whet our appetites recently when we grilled these Cajun Chicken Thighs for dinner. A chilled, naturally sweet salad was a good contrast to spicy chicken.

❤️ Why this recipe works

The colours! Cool greens and blues scream "refreshing" on a warm spring or summer day. This recipe has a beautiful contrast of mild sweet melon and strong salty cheese. Blueberries give it an extra pop of subtle sweetness, too.

This "cool as a cucumber" honeydew salad is topped off with the most delicious mint and lime dressing!

Next time you're shopping, don't pass up the honeydew melons! Find a perfectly ripe honeydew, and make this honeydew melon salad with blueberries! Here's what you'll need:

🛒 Ingredients and possible substitutions

• honeydew melon: see "how to choose a honeydew melon" below. If you don't have honeydew melon, you can substitute cantaloupe melon.
• cucumber: summer fresh, crisp and cool!
• blueberries: fresh, or frozen and thawed
• blue cheese: I like the strong contrast of blue cheese with the mild honeydew melon, but feel free to substitute other cheese. This salad is delicious with feta or goat cheese, Stilton, or even shavings of Parmigiana Reggiano.
• fresh mint leaves
• dressing: mint, lime juice, honey, olive oil, a pinch of salt

🔪 Instructions

Here's a quick overview. Complete instructions are in the recipe card below.

1. Whisk the Mint Lime Dressing ingredients together and set aside to let the flavours blend.
2. Place a wedge of fresh honeydew melon in the center of a shallow bowl or plate, or slice it into smaller bite-sized pieces if you'd prefer.
3. Top with sliced cucumbers, blueberries and crumbled blue cheese.
4. Add a few fresh mint leaves.
5. Just before serving, drizzle with the mint and lime dressing.

Is honeydew melon a healthy choice?

Honeydew melon has many surprising health benefits! Low in calories and rich in nutrients, honeydew melon is also a good way to hydrate! While it is made up mostly of water, it may be an even better way to hydrate than water alone as it contains electrolytes.

Make this melon salad ahead of time

You can assemble this salad ahead of time! Arrange the ingredients, then cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate. It will be deliciously chilled at serving time. Then just drizzle with dressing and enjoy!

📖 Recipe

Honeydew Blueberry Salad with Blue Cheese

This honeydew blueberry salad with blue cheese makes an impressive starter or side. With cool, crisp cucumbers and a mint lime dressing, this melon salad recipe is healthy and refreshing!

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Course: Salads and Dressings

Cuisine: American

Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes

Total Time: 15 minutes minutes

Servings: 4

Calories: 267kcal

Author: Elaine

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Ingredients

• ▢ ½ large honeydew melon, sliced in 4 wedges
• ▢ 1 cup blueberries, fresh, or frozen and thawed
• ▢ 1 long English cucumber, halved lengthwise, seeded and sliced
• ▢ ⅓ cup blue cheese, crumbled

Mint Lime Dressing

• ▢ ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil or avocado oil
• ▢ 2 tablespoon lime juice, freshly squeezed
• ▢ 2 tablespoon mint leaves, finely chopped, plus more for garnishing
• ▢ 1 tablespoon honey
• ▢ pinch flaky sea salt

Instructions

• Whisk the dressing ingredients together or shake in a small jar. Set aside to allow the flavours to blend while you assemble the salad.
• Cut a melon in half, remove the seeds, then slice one half into four wedges.
• Slice the cucumber in half lengthwise, remove the seeds by scraping down the length with a teaspoon, then cut into ¼ inch slices.
• Place a wedge of honeydew melon in the center of a shallow bowl or small plate. Add cucumber slices, blueberries, crumbled blue cheese, and a few fresh mint leaves.
• At this point, if you're not serving the salad right away, you can cover the bowls or plates with plastic wrap and chill.
• Drizzle with Mint Lime Dressing and serve.

Nutrition

Calories: 267kcal | Carbohydrates: 28g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 17g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 8mg | Sodium: 188mg | Potassium: 532mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 22g | Vitamin A: 299IU | Vitamin C: 37mg | Calcium: 81mg | Iron: 1mg

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