Swedish Melon With Red Raspberry Puree (melon-och Hallendessert)

Total Time: 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 (4 lb) cantaloupe or 1 (4 lb) honeydews, works well
• 1 cup fresh raspberry
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• rum (optional)

Recipe

• 1 cut melon in half and scoop out seeds.
• 2 scoop out melon with melon baller, or you can cut into small bite-sized cubes.
• 3 place in a serving bowl.
• 4 at this point you have a choice. you can marinate the melon in a little rum for an hour or more, or you can just continue.
• 5 if you marinated them, pour off any extra rum.
• 6 now, place raspberries in sieve over small bowl, and force berries thru sieve to remove seeds. (you can do this with the back of a spoon or just use your fingers.).
• 7 add sugar and lemon juice to seived raspberry puree.
• 8 pour raspberry puree over melon and chill for several hours.
• 9 serve from bowl, or serve in individual dessert dishes.
• 10 you can even serve this with a little ice cream or whipped cream. but it's just fine on it's own.