Summer

23 Cantaloupe Recipes Ripe for Summer Melon Season

June is the official start to melon season, and fragrant, ripe cantaloupe is often the first to arrive at the market. Chop, whip, slice, and shave it into these sweet and savory recipes all summer long.
Bodega glasses filled with a coralcolored slushy ice with a hunk of melon skin in the background.
Cantaloupe and Black Pepper GranitaGentl & Hyers
  • Bodega glasses filled with a coralcolored slushy ice with a hunk of melon skin in the background.
    Gentl & Hyers
    1/23

    Cantaloupe and Black Pepper Granita

    If you don't have Muscat, a dessert wine that adds depth to this sophisticated slushy, any sweeter white wine—such as Riesling—can be used in its place.

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  • A cantaloupe and cucumber salad on a white platter.
    Photo by Alex Lau
    2/23

    Cantaloupe and Cucumber Salad

    This savory fruit salad is spiced up with Fresno chiles, cardamom, and coriander which may sound like a strange combo but trust: it’s delicious.

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  • Image may contain Sliced Plant Fruit Food and Produce
    Photo by Alex Lau
    7/23

    Savory Shaved Cantaloupe Salad

    When shopping for this salad at the market, pick heavy, aromatic cantaloupes with stem ends that yield slightly when pressed.

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  • Image may contain Drink Juice Beverage Orange Juice Food Ketchup Cocktail Alcohol and Glass
    Stephen Lewis
    8/23

    Summer Twang

    Move over lemonade—in this non-alcoholic sipper, sweet melon is cut with club soda and a dash of apple cider vinegar. Want to put the booze back in? Add a shot of bourbon or swap out the soda for sparkling wine.

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