Melon with cardamon yogurt sauce
4 servings
Ingredients
Quantity | Ingredient | |
---|---|---|
1 | cup | Non-fat yogurt |
¼ | teaspoon | Ground cardamon |
3 | tablespoons | Brown sugar |
2 | tablespoons | (to 3 tbs) lime juice |
4 | cups | (to 5 cups) melon balls (cantaloupe, honeydew and/or watermelon) |
½ | bunch | Lemon verbena or mint (1/3 cup leaves) cut into thin slivers plus |
4 | Lemon verbena or mint sprigs for garnish |
Directions
Combine the yogurt, cardamon, brown sugar, and lime juice in a large bowl and whisk to mix. Gently stir in the melon balls and slivered lemon verbena. Taste the dressing, adding cardamon and sugar to taste. Garnish with lemon verbena sprigs and serve at once.
High-Flavor, Low-Fat Cooking by Steven Raichlen ISBN 0-1402-4123-X pg 202 Submitted By DIANE LAZARUS On 10-26-95