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Multicoloured cucumber-tomato salad

This salad is a good way to enjoy tomatoes at the height of their season, and all the different varieties available with their different flavours and colours.

80,0144.3/5 for 18 ratings

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Last modified on: September 16^th 2012

For 4 people, you will need:

1 600 g tomato
2 1 cucumber
3 100 g feta
4 4 tablespoons olive oil
5 1 lemon
6 2 tablespoons Tapenade (optional)
7 salt
8 pepper
Total weight: 1,120 grams

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Start to finish
1 hour 3 min.	1 hour 3 min.

Keeping: About an hour, once ready to serve.

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Stage 1

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Choose your tomatoes in as many different colours as possible.

Stage 2 - 30 min.

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Peel all the tomatoes and cut into quarters.

Arrange the tomatoes on a wire rack, sprinkle with fine salt...

Stage 3

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...on both sides.

Leave to drain.

Stage 4 - 10 min.

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Meanwhile, Peel 1 cucumber and slice thinly (you can groove the skin if you wish first, but this is just for appearance).

Sprinkle with fine salt in batches and mix well to distribute the salt evenly.

Stage 5 - 5 min.

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Cut 100 g feta into small rectangles.

Stage 6 - 5 min.

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Prepare the dressing by mixing 4 tablespoons olive oil, 1 lemon, salt and pepper in a bowl.

Stage 7 - 3 min.

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Tip the tomatoes and cucumber into the dressing, then mix thoroughly to help the vegetables absorb it.

Stage 8 - 10 min.

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Arrange on a plate, mixing up the colours and placing the feta between the tomatoes.

Pour a spoonful of the remaining dressing over the top and add a little tapenade if you wish.

Remarks

You can vary this recipe to your own taste: add herbs, spices, etc.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
1,137 Kcal or 4,760 Kj	29 gr	42 gr	95 gr
57 %	11 %	4 %	14 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
101 Kcal or 423 Kj	3 gr	4 gr	8 gr
5 %	1 %	<1 %	1 %

Per person
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
284 Kcal or 1,189 Kj	7 gr	10 gr	24 gr
14 %	3 %	1 %	4 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 4 people : 4.74 €
Per person : 1.19 €

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Source

Home made.

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Tomato: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Beans with tomatoes, Tomato tart, Chicken and Avocado Salad, Italian style gratin, Tabbouleh, ... All
	Feta: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Cretan salad, Lumberjack turnovers, Greek salad, Cretan-style salmon , Mediterranean toast, ... All
	Olive oil: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Fish "à la Bordelaise", Red mullet fillets with a reduced white-wine sauce, Chicken pie, French-style peas, Fillets of sole Dieppoise, ... All
	Lemon: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Little lemon biscuits, Lemon creams, Surprise eggs, Pogne de Romans, Strawberry-mint sorbet, ... All

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