Beachin' Cucumber Mint Popsicles with Cantaloupe
 
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Serves: 8
Ingredients
  • ½ cup + ⅓ cup water
  • ½ cup sugar
  • 2 Tbsp loosely packed fresh mint leaves
  • Juice of 1 large lime (more to taste)
  • 1 cucumber
  • ½ cup tiny cantaloupe cubes (about ½-inch)
Directions
  1. Place sugar and mint in a small saucepan; muddle mint leaves in sugar. Add ½ cup water, stir, and bring to a boil over high heat. Boil until sugar is completely dissolved. (About a minute.)
  2. Remove from heat and allow syrup to cool. Once cooled, pour through a strainer to remove leaves.
  3. Peel, seed, and roughly chop cucumber.
  4. Place cucumber, mint syrup, lime juice, and ⅓ cup water in a food processor. Process until smooth. Add more water or lime juice to taste. (Makes about 2 cups of cucumber-lime goodness to pour in your popsicle molds.)
  5. Sprinkle a few cubes of cantaloupe in the bottom of each popsicle mold, then fill each mold with cucumber mixture. Freeze for four hours or until set.
Notes
Of course, since I’m at the beach and neglected to bring popsicle molds, I used plastic Dixie cups instead. To DIY, just cover filled Dixie cups with plastic wrap and poke a craft stick through the center of each.
As a variation, my brother suggested swapping watermelon cubes for the cantaloupe cubes, and/or mixing watermelon juice in with the mint simple syrup. Sounds tasty to me!
Recipe by Veggie Quest at https://www.veggie-quest.com/2011/08/beachin-cucumber-mint-popsicles-with/