Melon is not the easiest product to add to meals and drinks. But Moscow chefs have found a way to cook and present it in a way that is both harmonious and unusual. Grab a selection of must-go places for melon lovers!
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David Chelidze, the chef of the author’s restaurant with Georgian cuisine, offers his guests two positions – and frankly, neither is open. For a snack (yes, that’s right), she recommends melon soup with coconut milk and basturma. Think about it, have you ever tried a combination like this – melon + coconut + basturma?! Once you try it, keep it tasting great – get the salmon fillet with melon and avocado salsa. The perfect combination of sweetness, saltiness and oil.
Address: Pokrovsky Boulevard, 8, building 1
No me
Chef Alexander Chemakin decided to diversify the classic gazpacho with melon. It is prepared from fresh tomatoes with the addition of fragrant bell pepper, cucumber, basil and olive oil. The melon is cut into pieces and finally added to the soup: its combination with tomatoes gives it a velvety and soft flavor.
Address: B. Dmitrovka, 21
Saperavi cafe
The chefs of the chain’s enterprises, headed by Khatuna Kolbaya, invented a dish and a drink with melon, both in the Georgian style. As a snack, melon is mixed with spicy basturma and blackberry tkemali. As you can see, melon + tkemali = a combination that you can safely try in your daily life.
And here they also prepare melon lemonade: for a rich taste, start with spicy plum tkemali.
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Scirocco
In the new Mediterranean restaurant that opened in the place where I love the bar in Shabolovka, they immediately decided to buy seasonal products and added melon to the scallop shell. But it’s not just a melon: it was previously marinated in ginger yuzu juice. The scallops are fresh but complemented by mango-wasabi sauce, lemongrass, lime juice, and tarragon oil. Yes, and decorated with fresh raspberries and flowers. Beauty!
Address: st. Shukhova, 21
semper
Perhaps the most famous combination of melon is with jamon (or with prosciutto in the Italian version). At Semper, they decided to transfer this classic to their dough and bake it in the oven – it turned out to be a Melon/jamon/arugula pizza!
Address: B. Dmitrovka, 22, building 1
my big love
The wine bar takes ice cream and sorbet very seriously. They are highly recommended to be taken not only as a dessert, but also as a starter – a small snack between courses, which allows you to replenish your buyers for subsequent gastronomic “adventures”.
All sherbets and ice creams in the business are handmade and prepared with minimum sugar in the restaurant’s kitchen. There are many seasonal among them, but right now we suggest you watch out for the amazing melon and bacon sorbet. Although the bacon in the sherbet has a secondary role, but what: it is responsible for the saltiness, which makes the taste of the dessert much more voluminous.
Address: N. Kiselny per., 4
coffee nut
The network also bet on melon sorbet, but only applied it to drinks. For example, you can drink an invigorating shake based on apple and cucumber juices, delicate lemon verbena and melon sorbet – it is called Melon and Verbena. Or try “Bubblegum”: melon sorbet is prepared on the basis of coconut puree with freshly squeezed watermelon juice and lemon juice.
And maybe the second tip for melon combinations at home (or any “field” condition): combine with coconut milk, water, sawdust – it will be exotic!
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Kiosk 1936
At a coffee and wine bar, they decided to use melon for the cocktail. “Bellini”: Here it is made on the basis of 100% melon puree and cava from Catalonia. Ideal for a snack!
Address: Chistoprudny Boulevard, 12, building 4
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A Turkish steakhouse uses melon for the Melon cocktail. Gin is insisted on it, fruit vodka, white vermouth, lemon juice, honey, coriander are added – and voila! The cocktail is ready!
Address: Smolenskaya sq., 5
Cheese factory in Krasny Oktyabr
From September 20 to October 5, you can taste another interesting melon dish on the set as part of the RRF. It is called “Carpaccio melon – gorgonzola – salted almonds”.
Thin slices of melon will be flavored with ponzu and hot sauce, covered with gorgonzola cheese and garnished with salted almonds.
Address: Bersenevsky per., 2, building 1
Source: People Talk
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