Hot weather meals call for lots of cool salads. Here’s an easy and attractive one featuring summer’s tomatoes.
Sometimes all I want for lunch is about six kinds of salad. I can get my protein from one like ourĀ luscious quinoa salad, fill up on a satisfying potato/fava bean salad, go on the sweet side with our bulgur and fruit salad and even go wild with edible weeds and seasonal veggies.
But summertimes’s prime salad ingredient is red, juicy tomatoes. To bring out the best of their sweet-tart flavor, I like to add a Middle-Eastern touch to them with herbs and spices.
Syrian Tomato Salad with Spiced Lemon Dressing
Recipe adapted from “Aromas of Aleppo,” byĀ Dweck and Cohen
Serves 4-6
Ingredients:
4-6 tomatoes
Ā½ small red onion
Juice of 1 lemon
2 tablespoons olive oil
Ā½ teaspoon ground allspice
1 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper flakes
A handful of parsley or cilantro leaves, chopped
HOW
Chop tomatoes into rough chunks.
Slice onion thinly. Gently mix into the tomato pieces.
Mix lemon juice, oil and spices and pour into the tomatoes and onions, gently stirring.
Scatter the chopped green leaves over the salad, and serve.
Both recipes may be halved or doubled.
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