Salade De Tomates
This tomato salad recipe is so simple to make, yet it will give you a bright and colorful display for your hors d oeuvres table or to accompany your family meal. What a quick and inexpensive way to produce such a beautiful and healthy side dish. Perfect fruits make a divine dish!
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❤️About This Recipe
I love this recipe because it has all the features I love in a salad. Simplicity can be divine in salad creation and this one has that.
First, fresh tomatoes, then mild onions or chives, and thirdly, a lovely blend of herbs parsley, and a little basil.
Then an easy salad dressing of red wine vinegar or lemon juice mixed with olive oil and a little salt and pepper.
Just, add this little salad to your family table as a side dish for your everyday meals, a quick and healthy addition for everyone.
Or a brilliant shock of color to an hors d'euvres table or buffet.
Also, it is a good way to eat up these beautiful fruits when they are in season and you can buy them cheaply or your tomato plants are heavy with bounty.
Find further step-by-step instructions on how to make delicious vegetable salads like this tomato salad recipe in The Salad Handbook.
📝Ingredients
- Firm ripe tomatoes cut in wedges, I love cherry or grape tomatoes of various colors because they make a lovely show.
- A few slices of mild onion or chives
- Chopped fresh parsley, and basil
Basil Vinaigrette Dressing
- olive oil or avocado oil
- fresh lemon juice
- red wine vinegar or apple cider vinegar
- Maple syrup or honey
- finely chopped basil leaves
- garlic minced
- salt
- freshly ground black pepper
🔢Instructions
- Make the dressing first by mixing the oil, lemon juice, vinegar, and maple syrup or honey in a bowl with a whisk until well blended and lemony colored.
- Then stir in the basil, garlic, salt, and pepper, and let sit on the counter while you prepare the salad base and the rest of the meal.
- Wash and slice tomatoes in half through the width if using small tomatoes or cut larger ones in wedges.
- Place them in a bowl that you will serve the salad in.
- Place a few onion rings or chopped chives over the top of the tomatoes and sprinkle with the parsley.
- Just before serving drizzle the dressing over the tomato salad base and stir well.
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📖 Recipe
Tomato Salad Recipe With Basil Vinaigrette Dressing
Ingredients
- 1 pound/450 gram firm ripe tomatoes or grape or cherry tomatoes of various colors make a lovely show
- A few slices of a mild onion or chives
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
Basil Vinaigrette Dressing
- ½ cup olive oil or avocado oil
- 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar or apple cider vinegar
- 1 teaspoon maple syrup or honey more if needed
- 3 tablespoons finely chopped basil leaves
- 1 clove garlic minced
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Instructions
- Make the dressing first by mixing the oil, lemon juice, vinegar, and maple syrup or honey in a bowl with a whisk until well blended and lemony colored.
- Then stir in the basil, garlic, salt, and pepper, and let sit on the counter while you prepare the salad base and the rest of the meal.
- Wash and slice tomatoes in half through the width if using small tomatoes or cut larger ones in wedges.
- Place them in a bowl that you will serve the salad in.
- Place a few onion rings or chopped chives over the top of the tomatoes and sprinkle with the parsley.
- Just before serving drizzle the dressing over the tomato salad base and stir well.
Notes
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