Caprese Salad with Watermelon and Grapefruit Ginger Spritz

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Caprese Salad with Watermelon

Ingredients:

• 10­-12 slices fresh watermelon*
• 10-­12 slices mozzarella*
• 10-­12 slices tomato* Fresh basil leaves
• 1­2 tbs extra virgin olive oil
• 1 tbs balsamic vinegar
• Sea salt
• Pepper

*Feel free to increase or decrease slices ­ make this for one and treat yourself or put together a big platter to wow a crowd 🙂

Instructions:

1. Cut tomatoes and watermelon into slices (triangle or square shape works nicely for the watermelon!)
2. Cut mozzarella into rounds
3. Chop or tear basil leaves
4. Stack and layer on a platter (feel free to get creative!)
5. Drizzle with olive oil and balsamic vinegar
6. Sprinkle generously with basil, salt and pepper
7. Enjoy!

Grapefruit Ginger Spritz

• 1?4 cup sugar or honey
• cup ginger (peeled and grated)
• 4 cups grapefruit juice
• 4 cups seltzer OR champagne/prosecco

1. Peel and grate ginger
2. Combine ginger, sugar, and 1/4 cup water over medium heat, stirring until sugar is dissolved, about 2 minutes
3. Pour grapefruit juice into a pitcher
4. Pour ginger syrup through fine mesh strainer into pitcher
5. Top off with 4 cups seltzer or 4 cups champagne/prosecco and serve! (You can also pour juice into individual glasses and top off each glass with as much seltzer, champagne or prosecco as you would like!)