Hello you lovely Foodtubers, Mr Oliver here
Today we're going to do the ultimate tomato salad
You could fold it through a lovely omelette, you could put it through a risotto
So it all begins with the Tomatoes obviously. You know the plums and the traditional reds
Are the more usual fair, but if you look down the farmers markets and good supermarkets
you'll see a whole range of beautifulness. Look at that, look at the colours
so this is a very, very exciting little world. What I want to do is show you
How you can get the most flavour out of your tomatoes
You can slice some, which is absolutely lovely
You can also just clank some up into quarters or little eighths... like that
Now once you've sliced up your lovely tomatoes
There is an important ingredient that really makes it the very best it can be
and that's Mr Salt so we're gonna put them into a bowl
Season from a height not because we wanna look cool, but because we want to get an even seasoning
Of the salt, give them a little toss up as you go
and we give them a good seasoning there. Now immediately
that's going to really transform that tomato. Sometimes chili flakes
Oregano, dried Oregon is gorgeous. I'm gonna keep it nice and clean today
I wanna put a little bit of acid in there, now you can go vinegar or you can go lemon juice
Whatever you fancy, so I'll put a little lemon in there and that's just to balance the oil... I'm about to put in
Now I'm using really good, extra virgin, cold pressed Olive Oil. You get what you pay for.
This is the stuff that you don't want to cook with, it's just for finishing, it's absolutely gorgeous.
and again, we have a little toss
and we just leave this for a couple of minutes
so at that point, we'll think about plating up
so I'm just gonna pour that over... lovely colours
Lovely natural juice coming out. What I like to do is when It comes to the Basil
You know, try and go for the wrinkly leaves, they're more intense in flavour
I use the bigger leaves for cooking and the smaller leaves for sprinkling
One thing I love just to do now is just a little balsamic
little bombs in and around, such a lovely combination
and then because it's me..a tiny fleck of chili. run my knife, down the length
I don't want seeds in the story because it's too intense and I'm just going to finally slice... that chili
Get your chili and agai from a height
We're just gonna sprinkle this in and around
absolutely gorgeous... so there you go guys
a very, very simple but delicious tomato salad
You'll get mega flavour from that. You could take this or left overs of this
and scrunch it into a pizza...into a pizzeta
You could, you could, you could... you could put it with spaghetti
Ok? there's so many things you can do, but what I'm trying to say
is this is kinda your base level standard.
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