RECIPE

Watermelon Gelatin with Spices (Gelatina de Sandia con Especias)

  • ACTIVE:
  • TOTAL TIME:
  • SERVINGS: 4

  • ACTIVE:
  • TOTAL TIME:
  • SERVINGS: 4
  • MAKE-AHEAD

Ingredients

  • Ingredients
    1. 2 cups watermelon juice
    2. 3 sheets of gelatin (2 grams each)
    3. Seeds scraped from 1 vanilla bean
    4. Mint
    5. Basil
    6. Lemon
    7. Orange
    8. Saffron
    9. Balsamic vinegar
    10. Salt
    11. Pimentón dulce (Spanish smoked paprika)
    12. Cinnamon
    13. Star anise
    14. Pepper

Directions

  1. Heat 1 cup of watermelon juice. Add the gelatin to the hot watermelon juice and stir to dissolve. Add the rest of the juice and stir. Pour the gelatin mixture into 4 soup plates. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours, or until the gelatin is set.
  2. Garnish each plate of gelatin with a bit of each spice, placing the vanilla seeds at 12 o'clock, mint at 1 o'clock, basil at 2 o'clock, and so on.