Summer Tomato Salad
This salad is a salad that we have on our menu in the restaurant. It’s composed of a mix of colorful cherry tomatoes and regular tomatoes. We season a salad with pickled lemons which is a very common addition to salads or meat dishes which really adds a great depth to the dish along with a nice tart bite. I will be posting as well a recipe for my pickled lemons, but for right now this recipe is a dish that you can buy all the ingredients separately at the supermarket and mix them with the fresh tomatoes and make your at home zaatar croutons and it’s really a great salad to enjoy during the summer. Here in Israel we like to put tomatoes in everything and it’s very important when we have them in season and we get to create many dishes with them. This specific dish is composed of tomatoes seasoned with olive oil lemon juice and the juice that is left from the pickled onions. We also add Syrian olives whichWhich gives a great depth to the dish. I recommend one serving this dish that you use a high quality olive oil And of course fresh lemon juice. You can find pickled lemons and pickles onions in any of your supermarkets or any specialty food stores. In terms of making the croutons I advise to take any leftover bread that you have in the house cut it into cubes season it with salt, zaatar, and olive oil and simply bake in the oven for about 7 minutes. You will then have the perfect garnish for your salad.
In this big dish specifically I finish with fresh parsley, but I also highly recommend finishing with fresh basil.
Summer Tomato Salad
Recipe details
- 1 Plate
- Prep time: 5 Minutes Cook time: 5 Minutes Total time: 10 min
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This looks so refreshing! Perfect for summer.