Bonjour my friends, I’m Frankie and welcome to Club Foody!
It’s important to eat a little salad every day as it helps our system to function better.
Now it doesn’t have to be lettuce to be considered as a salad.
In the past, I’ve shared many of them with you like my Asparagus
Summer Salad, Greek Salad, Tabbouleh, Pasta Salad and many more. Now here’s this one…
In today’s episode, I’ll show you how to make my Mixed Tomato Salad!
This is a great dish to make and the flavors are just awesome! It also pairs very well
with many grilled proteins. Although this is not a traditional salad dish per se,
it’s definitely one of my favorites. So my friends, let’s get cooking!
These are our cherry tomatoes that we’ve washed and as you can see, there’s a beautiful mix
of colors – you can use all red if you want but I think the mix makes it more appealing.
So what we’ll do is to cut them in half unless they’re very, very small
and transfer them to a mixing bowl. To this, we’ll add chopped shallots and pressed garlic. Next,
we’ll take a few basil leaves and stack them. Then we’ll roll them tightly like I’m doing here
and chop – this is how we do a chiffonade. Now because we’ll add the basil leaves to the salad,
we’ll chop them finer before transferring them to the bowl. We’ll also add finely chopped oregano
and Bocconcini that we cut in half. We’ll season with ground sea salt
and freshly ground black pepper. We’ll gently toss until the ingredients are well combined,
put the lid on and transfer to the fridge for at least 1 hour. Now, let’s make the vinaigrette…
In a small container, we’ll add extra virgin olive oil, some balsamic vinegar,
granulated sugar and a little bit of hot paprika. We’ll cover, give it a good shake
so everything is well blended and transfer it as well to the fridge until ready to serve.
Now before we pour the vinaigrette over the salad,
we’ll give another good shake just to make sure it’s well mixed. We’ll pour it and gently toss
the salad until the ingredients are well coated… And my friends, this is our Mixed Tomato Salad!
Incredibly flavorful, this is a recipe you have to make! It’s easy, tasty and also very healthy! This
is a delicious change from a garden salad and a great side dish to pair with many proteins…
I hope you give it a try soon and be sure to visit clubfoody.com
for ingredient amounts, directions and more info… Until next time my friends, bon appétit!