Cold blender drinks made with watermelon — smoothie bowls, watermelon slushy, watermelon whip, strawberry watermelon slush — for hot afternoons at home.
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Let’s freshen up with this refreshing watermelon smoothie bowl topped with lime!
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Open in Pepper →A ripe watermelon is more than anybody can eat in a sitting, and cubing what's left and freezing it means you've got the base for a cold drink all week. It blends up thick and sweet without needing much of anything else.
Cooks on Pepper reach for these when it's too hot to turn on the stove, when the kids come in from outside asking for something cold, or when there's half a melon sitting in the fridge going soft.
Every recipe here leans on watermelon and a blender: the watermelon smoothie bowl with coconut water, a watermelon slushy with lime and honey, watermelon whip with frozen strawberries, strawberry watermelon slush, and a watermelon agua fresca with fresh lime juice.
Freeze the cubes first
Spread seedless watermelon cubes on a sheet pan and freeze 4 hours, so the drink comes out thick without ice watering it down.
Add lime last
Blend the fruit first, then stir in a tablespoon of fresh lime juice so the flavor stays bright instead of blending away.
Go easy on liquid
Start with 1/4 cup of coconut water or milk and add more only if the blender stalls, especially for a smoothie bowl.
Taste before sweetening
A ripe melon may need nothing; if it does, start with 1 tablespoon of honey and blend 10 seconds more.