Carbonated Watermelon Salad

While the most common and well-known use of a whipping siphon is to create foams you can also use it to infuse liquids and to carbonate liquids. In this recipe, I carbonate the water in watermelon to make a fizzy salad.

I love the taste of watermelon, especially when it's nice and ripe in summer. Because of that I just use a simple dressing of lime juice and mint leaves with a little bit of chopped up jalapeno for added bite. The carbonation process also adds a little bitterness to the watermelon which I find complements the mint.

The carbonation will last 15 to 25 minutes so it needs to be served quickly once the whipping siphon is opened.

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