[upbeat music] So today I'm going to make a watermelon salad that, of course, stars watermelon, but has some other delicious things to go on it.

So let's start with our watermelon.

You know, watermelon's gonna taste pretty much the same, no matter what shape it's cut into.

But why not have fun with this?

Why not give yourself a chance to play and be creative?

I took some pieces of watermelon and a biscuit cutter and a cookie cutter and I just stamped out different sized pieces.

Now look at this watermelon.

This watermelon is yellow.

Yes, there are yellow watermelons.

Matter of fact, there are white flesh watermelons.

There are all kinds of watermelons for us to explore and to try.

Look at this over here, friends, look at this.

Everything we have here is a kind of watermelon.

These are fairly small, but you'll notice that they have different kinds of stripes and different colors.

Explore, go to your farmer's market, go to your local vegetable stand, look around and try different things.

It's how you take a familiar ingredient and make it feel fun.

It's how you learn new flavors.

But back to this, we're gonna keep building.

This is some cucumber.

You know, cucumbers and watermelons and squashes and pumpkins are all cousins.

And when you think about that, it's like, yeah, look how they grow.

I bet they are related.

And then we have tomato.

Now I'm using these lovely, little multicolored cherry and grape and teardrop tomatoes.

Just a few on there.

And then I'm going to put some red onion.

I love the beautiful color of these pieces of red onion.

And then a little bit of jalapeno, just a tiny little bit of spice.

Now obviously, if you want a little more kick, you can use a spicier chili.

But this jalapeno is probably just right.

This is something called ricotta salata.

Now we're nearly finished with this, but I need to make a dressing.

I'm gonna take my little bowl here and I'm gonna put three things in here.

This is fresh lime juice and we have a little bit of tequila.

Yes, I am building a margarita-inspired dressing for this salad.

And this is a little bit of an orange liqueur.

And just whisk that up.

[whisk tapping] And I'm gonna drizzle this over the top.

This is a fun dressing.

[upbeat music] We're adding citrus, we're adding flavor.

Three more little things.

I have got some coarse sugar.

A little bit of sugar will bring out the natural sweetness in what we have on the platter.

And then some good coarse salt, like you would rim a margarita serving glass with.

Beautiful crunchy salt.

I'm gonna put a bit of fresh mint.

And my last thing, this stuff that looks like black pepper is actually called black lime.

And just a little sprinkle over the top is what you need for that final burst of bright lime flavor in a great new way to serve that.

And just like that, look what we've done.

Right on the serving platter we have assembled this gorgeous watermelon rich salad.

This is a recipe that people are gonna love throughout the season.

It is so easy and you need to add it to your recipe box.

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