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This easy pomegranate salad is made with juicy watermelon, crisp cucumber, salty feta, sweet pomegranate seeds, and caramelized pumpkin seed granola. It’s refreshing, quick to make, and perfect for every occasion.
Think of this recipe as an elevated twist on a simple watermelon cucumber salad. Similar to my orange salad, it highlights naturally sweet fruit with a balance of more savory flavors. I love to serve it as an appetizer or side dish, but it also easily doubles as a main course.
With vibrant red and green colors, it’s a wonderful addition to a holiday table and doubles as a summer option, perfect for taking advantage of fresh produce. No matter when or how you serve it, this is one of those delicious salad recipes that never disappoints!
Serving Suggestion
Stuff the salad into a warm pita bread with chicken or fish. It’s so good.
Pomegranate Salad Ingredients
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- Pumpkin seeds and sugar: Combine with water to make a crunchy granola. Adds a delicious crunch.
- Watermelon: Choose a firm watermelon that sounds hollow when tapped and has a large field spot. You want it heavy for its size, that way you know it’s likely to be juicy and sweet.
- Feta: I use a block of feta for the best taste.
- Cucumber: I prefer an English cucumber, but Persian cucumbers are fine, too.
- Pomegranate: You’ll need the seeds from half a pomegranate. Save the rest in an airtight container and enjoy as a snack or top onto your breakfast bowls or salads.
- Dressing: Made with olive oil, lemon, honey, chopped basil, sea salt, and pepper.
How to Make a Pomegranate Salad
- Prepare the pumpkin seed granola: Heat seeds, water, and sugar in a small pan on medium-high heat. After the water evaporates, stir until the seeds have caramelized.
- Prepare the salad ingredients: Dice the watermelon and cucumber. Crumble the feta.
- Prepare the dressing: Mix the ingredients in a small bowl.
- Assemble: Arrange the salad on a platter, drizzle the dressing over it, and finally add the pumpkin seed granola.
Possible Variations
- Watermelon: Swap for any other melon, pear, apple, fig, peach, or mango.
- Cucumber: Try avocado, cherry tomatoes, kale, baby spinach, or gem lettuce.
- Feta: Blue cheese, bocconcini, or goat cheese.
- Pumpkin seeds: Sunflower seeds or sesame seeds.
- Dressing: Add pomegranate juice, balsamic vinegar, or dijon mustard.
How to Store Leftovers
Keep leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge and enjoy within 2 days.
FAQs
Yes, you can make it a few hours in advance, but wait to dress the salad until right before serving.
Roasted pine nuts, hazelnuts, walnuts, or pecans would be a delicious alternative.
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Pomegranate Salad
Equipment
Ingredients
Pumpkin seed granola
- 1/3 cup water, 80 ml
- 1 tablespoon cane sugar
- 1/2 cup pumpkin seeds, 1 deciliter
Salad
- 4 slices watermelon
- 1/2 cucumber
- 100 grams feta
- 1/2 pomegranate, seeds
Dressing
- 8 tablespoons olive oil
- 1/2 lemon, juiced
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 1 tablespoon fresh basil, or mint leaves, chopped
Instructions
Pumpkin seed granola
- To make the pumpkin seed granola, heat a small pan on medium-high.
- Add the sugar, water, and seeds to the pan and mix with a wooden spoon.
- After a few minutes, the water will boil and then evaporate.
- Stir to caramelize the seeds.
- Once the seeds are golden, pour them out onto parchment paper.
- Use the wooden spoon to separate the seeds.
- Sprinkle with sea salt and pepper and allow to cool.
Salad
- Cube the watermelon.
- Chop the cucumber.
- Crumble the feta.
- Mix together the dressing ingredients: olive oil, honey, finely chopped fresh basil (or mint) leaves, lemon juice, sea salt, and pepper.
- Add watermelon cubes, cucumber, crumbled feta cheese, and pomegranate seeds to a serving platter or large bowl.
- Pour the dressing over the salad. Toss.
- Sprinkle the pumpkin seed granola on top.
- Serve.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
