Bacon-and-Cornmeal-Fried Watermelon

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Looking to bash thing amusive with the summertime effect and imbue it with adjacent much seasonal flavor, cook Jerome Grant and his room squad came up with this crunchy-juicy starter. When the pieces are chopped open, the watermelon looks similar sushi-grade tuna. The accompanying chimichurri balances the crockery with spice and acid.

You’ll request a thermometer for monitoring the frying oil.

The chimichurri tin beryllium made and refrigerated a fewer days successful advance. Taste for seasoning earlier serving.

From Jerome Grant, enforcement cook astatine Mitsitam Native Foods Cafe, National Museum of the American Indian.

Ingredients

For the chimichurri

  • 1 mean jalapeño capsicum (seeded oregon unseeded), chopped into chunks
  • 1/2 cupful packed basil leaves
  • 1/2 cupful packed, coarsely chopped flat-leaf parsley
  • 1/3 cupful olive oil
  • 1/4 cupful reddish vino vinegar
  • Kosher salt

For the watermelon

  • 3 cups rootlike oil, for frying
  • 2 cups flour
  • Kosher salt
  • 3 ample eggs
  • 1/4 cupful regular oregon low-fat milk
  • 2 cups stone-ground yellowish cornmeal
  • 1/2 cupful cooked, finely chopped bacon
  • Twenty 2-inch cubes seedless watermelon (no rind)

From Jerome Grant, enforcement cook astatine Mitsitam Native Foods Cafe, National Museum of the American Indian.

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published June 23, 2015

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Updated March 15, 2026

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