Mixed tomato salad

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 4 people, you will need:

• 1 800 g tomato
• 2 fine (or table) salt
• 3 30 g shallot
• 4 herbs of your choice
• 5 5 tablespoons French dressing (vinaigrette)
• Total weight: 905 grams

Times:

Preparation
20 min.

Step by step recipe

1	Choose 800 g tomato to include plenty of varieties with different colours, like in this photo. The more varied they are, the better - it's the mix of varieties that really makes this salad.
2	Rinse the tomatoes, then and cut off and discard the stalk and the hard bit just underneath.
3	Slice the tomatoes fairly thinly (the ideal tool for this is a mandolin). Sprinkle the tomatoes with table salt and leave for 30 minutes to 1 hour.
4	Drain the tomatoes thoroughly, as the salt will have drawn out some of their juice, then put them in a salad bowl. Add 30 g shallot (finely chopped), herbs of your choice and 5 tablespoons French dressing (vinaigrette). Mix well.
5	If you will not be serving the salad right away, do not refrigerate it, just cover and leave at room temperature.

Remarks

Please don't store your tomatoes in the fridge - they really don't like it and it spoils the flavour. If they are already in there, take them out the day before and leave them to come to room temperature.

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