What I cook when laziness captures me in the vice and no desire to cut off the salad

In the summer, you usually want something light and fresh. Vegetable season is in full swing, so it’s time to add more salads to your diet. Today we will tell you how to make simple tomato salad with a walnut dressing.

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Salad of tomatoes In the recipe is present svan A dry spice mixture traditionally used in Georgian cuisine. Of course, you can not bother and take ordinary salt, but then the taste and aroma will be simpler. Also on the list of ingredients appears kachetianIt is made from Georgian sunflower. It's sold in supermarkets. Again, it can be replaced with regular sunflower oil, better unrefined.



The ingredients

• 4 tomatoes
• 1 handful of walnuts (about 50g)
• 1 clove of garlic
• cilantro
• leek
• peppery
• svan
• kachetian
• sunflower
• red-wine

Preparation

1. Grind cilantro and cloves of garlic. Together with a handful of nuts and dried pepper, put in a bowl of blender.
2. Add kakhetian and ordinary sunflower oil. Mix, because kakhetian oil has a strong enough aroma, which also emphasize walnuts. Also add some wine or rice vinegar.
   
   
   
3. Grind all the ingredients in the blender. We'll make a paste-like mass.
4. Cut the tomatoes into 6 pieces. In general, cutting can be anyone who likes.
5. Put the tomatoes in a bowl and add a ready-made dressing to them. Stir to make the tomatoes covered with paste.
   
   
   
6. Cut red onions with thin rings and lay on top of tomatoes. Our salad is ready!

This dish can be attributed to modern Georgian cuisine. Although the salad is prepared very simply and quickly, but its taste is exquisite and spicy. Of course, the recipe can be varied at your discretion. For example, add cucumbers, replace walnuts with any other or add other greens. But then we will have a completely different salad. If you love experimentation, why not try it?



Also for clarity add a video with the original recipe:

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By the way, we want to recommend a wonderful salad with fresh vegetables and lavash according to the Lebanese recipe, which we published earlier. A lovely summer dish.

We will wait for your feedback and ideas on how to modify the tomato salad. Bon appetit!