Who doesn't like tomatoes?
It is difficult to find such a person. From this wonderful vegetable you can cook a huge number of dishes that can delight in winter and summer.
But especially everyone loves fresh tomato salads.
And they can be done in a variety of ways.
Fresh Tomatoes Salad - General Cooking Principles
For the preparation of salad from fresh tomatoes only ripe fruits are used, brown and green are not used. Tomatoes are cut into slices, diced, circles or straws, mixed with other ingredients, spices and dressings. Cherry is usually cut in half or used entirely.
The peculiarity of fresh tomatoes is that they are combined with absolutely any products: mushrooms, meat, fish, chicken, sausage, raw and canned vegetables, beans. There are also no restrictions on the choice of spices.
As refills, oils, mayonnaise, sour cream, lemon juice and sauces based on these ingredients are commonly used. In any fresh tomato salad you can change the dressing or spices, and the dish will delight you with a new taste.
Recipe 1: Fresh tomato salad with cheese
For the preparation of this salad from fresh tomatoes, you can use any cheese, including sausage. For a layer of ham is used, which can be replaced with boiled sausage or chicken
Ingredients
• 3 tomatoes;
• 0.15 kg of cheese;
• 0.2 kg of ham;
• parsley;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 0.2 kg of mayonnaise.
Cooking
1. Chop garlic and mix with mayonnaise, salt to taste.
2. Cut the tomatoes into arbitrary slices, spread half on the dish.
3. Cut ham into cubes or straws, spread on top of tomatoes and grease with mayonnaise sauce.
4. Cover the layer with the second half of the tomatoes, lubricate with the sauce.
5. Grate the cheese, pour in a salad of fresh tomatoes, lightly dress with a sauce so as not to form a dry crust.
6. Chop the parsley, sprinkle the dish.
Recipe 2: Salad of fresh tomatoes and pickles
A salad with fresh tomatoes and pickles will turn the view of the incompatibility of these ingredients. The appetizer contains only three main components, thus it turns out very tasty and original.
Ingredients
• fresh tomatoes 2 things;
• pickles 2 things;
• bulb, better red;
• ground pepper;
• any vegetable oil.
Cooking
1. Tomatoes cut into slices, cucumber circles.
2. Onion clean and shred arbitrarily.
3. Add a little ground pepper, a couple of tablespoons of butter and mix.
Recipe 3: Fresh Tomatoes Salad “Ease”
A very simple recipe for a salad of fresh tomatoes and contains only vegetables. The whole secret lies in an unusually tasty and easy dressing based on classic yogurt. This sauce can be used for any fresh vegetables, including cabbage. The only disadvantage of this sauce is that it is not stored in the refrigerator for more than 2 days.
Ingredients
• 2 tomatoes;
• 10 radishes;
• 1 cucumber;
• green onions, dill.
Filling:
• a cup of natural yoghurt 125 gr .;
• spoon of honey;
• 1 tsp. mustard;
• 3 spoons of lemon juice;
• salt to taste.
Cooking
1. Cut cucumbers, tomatoes, radishes and greens as we want. All sent to a large salad bowl.
2. For the sauce, mix the honey (if it is candied, you need to melt it beforehand) with mustard, yogurt, lemon juice, salt to taste.
3. Dressing with sauce, stir and can be served.
Recipe 4: Fresh Tomatoes Crab Salad
This fresh tomato salad is much lighter than the classic crab salad, and the taste is just as good. And if you want to make it healthier, you can change the mayonnaise to sour cream or dressing from the previous recipe.
Ingredients
• 0.2 kg crab sticks;
• 0.35 kg of tomatoes;
• 0.2 kg of any cheese, you can cheese;
• clove of garlic;
• mayonnaise.
Cooking
1. Cut the washed tomatoes in half, remove the seeds with liquid and turn the flesh into even cubes. 2. Clean the crab sticks from the packaging, cut each along and cut across in the form of cubes. Ship to tomatoes.
3. Cheese is also ground in small cubes, sent to a bowl of salad.
4. Fill with chopped garlic, mayonnaise, salt to taste.
The same salad can be collected in layers: tomatoes, sticks, cheese. In this embodiment, the cheese can be grated. For a change, garlic can be replaced with pickled onion in vinegar and the dish will get a completely new taste.
Recipe 5: Fresh tomato salad with cheese and eggs
This is a recipe for a delicious fresh tomato salad that is perfect as a wonderful dinner for losing weight. The dish is nourishing, useful, but it will not be deposited at the waist.
Ingredients
• 2 tomatoes;
• Cheese 0.15 kg;
• 2 chicken eggs;
• greens, salt.
Refill your choice: olive oil, natural yogurt, lemon juice or sour cream.
Cooking
1. Peel boiled eggs, cut into not very small cubes.
2. Tomatoes and cheese also turn into flat cubes, greens cut arbitrarily.
3. Mix all ingredients, add chopped greens, pour in any gas station to choose from.
Recipe 6: Fresh tomato salad with croutons and cheese
Croutons for this fresh tomato salad are best prepared on your own from stale loaf. In the purchased too much salt and flavorings, although with them, too, it turns out delicious.
Ingredients
• 3 tomatoes;
• 0.2 kg of cheese;
• big bunch of greens;
• mayonnaise;
• half loaf;
• some oil;
• 2 cloves of garlic.
Cooking
1. Pour some butter into the pan, add one clove of garlic, cut into 3-4 pieces and fry. As soon as it turns golden, we take it out and throw it away. In butter, we will fry crackers.
2. Cut the long loaf into small cubes, fry in a prepared frying pan until golden brown. Cooling down.
3. Cut tomatoes and cheese in arbitrary slices, preferably under the shape of crackers.
4. Grind the greens, the remaining clove of garlic.
5. Combine all the ingredients, add mayonnaise and mix, salt to taste.
Recipe 7: Fresh Tomato Salad with Herring
Tomatoes are rarely cooked with herring, but in fact this is a wonderful combination, the products complement each other perfectly. In the recipe is a whole carcass, but if desired, you can use the finished fillet in the amount of 0.3 kg.
Ingredients
• 1 salted herring;
• 5 tomatoes;
• 1 onion;
• vinegar;
• vegetable oil.
Cooking
1. We clean the herring from the film, viscera, ridge and bones. Cut into small cubes, send in a salad bowl.
2. Cut the onion into 4 parts and cut into thin strips. Marinate in water acidified with vinegar.
3. Tomatoes are cut into arbitrary slices, not necessarily finely.
4. Mix the herring, tomatoes, onions pressed from the marinade, season the salad with vegetable oil. It will also be delicious with mayonnaise.
Recipe 8: Fresh Tomatoes Salad with Corn and Avocado
For this fresh tomato salad it is better to use cherry tomatoes. They are easier to cut into neat pieces. If you use ordinary tomatoes, it is better to choose fleshy varieties. The dressing is prepared on the basis of avocados, so you need to choose a ripe fruit.
Ingredients
• 0.5 kg of tomatoes;
• canned corn;
• red onion;
• 0.2 kg iceberg lettuce.
For refueling:
• 1 avocado;
• 0.1 kg of natural yogurt;
• salt;
• juice of half a lemon.
Cooking
1. Cut cherry tomatoes into 4 parts, if ordinary tomatoes are used, then arbitrary slices.
2. From corn we merge marinade, we send grains to salad.
3. Cut the onion into half rings, iceberg lettuce arbitrarily. All mixed with tomatoes and corn.
4. For refueling, we cut the avocado in half, remove the bone, scoop the pulp and chop it. Add the rest of the ingredients.
5. Combine the salad with dressing, mix, salt to taste.
Recipe 9: Spicy Fresh Tomato Salad
For this fresh tomato salad you need hard fruits, you can be slightly unripe. Also need a pod of hot peppers. If not, then you can use the sharp Georgian adjika, you will need 1 tablespoon. Ingredients
• 0.8 kg of tomatoes;
• 1 hot pepper;
• 1 onion;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 50 ml of vegetable oil;
• a bunch of basil.
Cooking
1. Remove the tail from the hot pepper, cut it into several pieces and place it in the blender bowl, send the basil and garlic cloves to the same place. Grind, add salt, vegetable oil and once again all is well whipped. Put the sauce aside.
2. Wash tomatoes, dry, cut into slices.
3. Onion cut into half rings, send to the tomatoes.
4. Dress the salad with spicy sauce, mix well, tamp with a spoon, cover with the lid and send to the fridge for 1 hour. Stir well again before serving.
Fresh Tomatoes Salad - Tips and Tricks
• Fresh tomato salad can be made in advance, cover and refrigerate. It will stand perfectly for a day and nothing will happen. But it is necessary to fill with salt and sauces just before serving.
• In puffed fresh tomato salads, the juice usually flows to the bottom of the plate and gathers around the edges, which spoils the appearance of the snack. To prevent this, when cutting tomatoes, you need to remove the seeds from the surrounding liquid, and the layer itself is not to be salted or sprinkled with spices.
• Unripe tomatoes are sour, not everyone likes. In order for them to ripen faster and taste qualities improved, you need to remove the vegetables in a warm and dark place, putting an apple to them.
• In any salad, you can substitute regular fresh tomatoes for cherry and vice versa. The taste of the dishes will not change, only the look.
• In salads with fresh tomatoes, you can use fruits of different colors: yellow, pink, red. From this dish will only be more beautiful.
