Watermelon and Cheese Bites
This simple recipe for watermelon and cheese bites pairs sweet and salty flavors together for a fun and different summer appetizer! Bet you can’t eat just one.
Once a year, we gather with some of our very best friends at their beautiful lake house. We go to the state fair, we play badminton, we watch movies, we sit around the campfire and we lounge around and talk and laugh and sing and dance.
And we eat. Oh, do we eat.
A couple of weeks beforehand, we plan out the weekend menu, which is a conglomeration of traditional items that we have every year without fail (grilled pizza!) along with some new recipes that we are trying out. That’s one of the great things about hanging out with old friends – you can test out brand-new things with nothing to fear…they are always up for adventure.
This simple recipe for watermelon and cheese bites pairs sweet and salty flavors together for a fun and different summer appetizer! Bet you can't eat just one. That is where these scrumptious little nibbles come from. You skewer mozzarella that has been dunked in a little olive oil and balsamic vinegar, some watermelon chunks, a little bit of prosciutto and a mint leaf (do not even THINK about skipping the mint leaf. It is the part that makes this baby just perfect.) That’s it!
Until you start debating the order of ingredients on the toothpick.
And then have to go outside and photograph the dang thing all over again. Just remember, as long as the mint leaf still ends up on the top, you’re golden!
Watermelon and Cheese Bites
This simple recipe for watermelon and cheese bites pairs sweet and salty flavors together for a fun and different summer appetizer!
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 15 minutes
- Yield: 24 1x
- Category: Appetizer
- Method: No Cook
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
- 1/8 cup olive oil
- 1/8 cup balsamic vinegar
- 24 pieces mozzarella – either the small round variety, or regular fresh mozzarella cut into cubes
- 24 pieces cubed watermelon, about 1 inch or so
- 6 pieces very thinly sliced prosciutto, each piece cut into 4 smaller pieces
- 24 small fresh mint leaves
Instructions
- Mix oil and vinegar together. Add cheese and stir until cheese is lightly coated.
- Assemble watermelon, cheese, small folded pieces of prosciutto and mint leaves on a toothpick, starting with the watermelon and cheese on the bottom, topped by the prosciutto and finally the mint leaf. (Or, do in a different order if you feel like it!)
- Serve at once. Wasn’t that easy?
Aren't those toothpicks the BEST? You can find them here: http://www.pickonus.com/tulippicks-colored-312.aspx
This looks great! I love watermelon and cheese…sadly I only discovered that this summer. I could have been enjoying it for years had I only tried it sooner…haha :)
Ditto, Kris – I MUST have those toothpicks! (Though I thought they were tulips…)
Where did you get the adorable heart toothpicks?
odd combination, but I'm going to make it next summer, if I still remember it then…. hope I do!
Gorgeous! I will add this to the files!
Gorgeous! I will add this to the files!
What an interesting flavor combination!
Sounds fabulous…wonderful new idea …love to try new flavors together and I love mint….
Sounds fabulous…wonderful new idea …love to try new flavors together and I love mint….
My first thought was…"That mint leaf will have to go!"…Good thing you insisted on that! ^_^
Mmm I never have a good reason to serve appetizers and it's so sad because I love having lots of little bites of things! Although I think I would have to have MANY bites of these watermelon cheese bites! They look scrumptious.