Tomato salad - 475 cooking recipes

It would probably be quite stupid, long and wrong to list how many recipes for tomato salad there are. And who will need it in the end? It is much more interesting to stock up on the necessary products and go to the kitchen to create one of the three main women's miracles)). After all, as everyone knows, we can make exactly three things out of nothing: a hat, a scandal and a salad!

As mentioned above, fresh tomatoes are usually added to the salad: large red or cherry tomatoes. With the appearance of yellow vegetables on the market (although in fact, in the botanical sense, tomatoes are not vegetables at all, but berries! But this is a digression), you can add them. Especially if you plan to make a beautiful salad with bright colors to cheer up everyone sitting at the table.

Butter, who knows, but the simplest tomato salad consists of one ingredient other than the main one: cheese. And it is believed that it was invented, of course, in Italy. It is there that it is still served under the beautiful name “caprese”. True, they also season with basil leaves and sprinkle with olive oil.

In general, salad with tomatoes can be found in, perhaps, all national cuisines. In Russia this will be the famous summer version with cucumbers, onions and herbs. The same is prepared in neighboring countries and far abroad. In fact, this is a stripped-down version of the Greek salad, which includes: tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, feta cheese, lots of herbs, salt, balsamic (or other) vinegar, spices and vegetable oil.

If you experiment with the composition, then an ordinary salad with tomatoes and cucumbers can be changed beyond recognition. To do this, you can put one of the following in it: basil, arugula, parsley, cilantro, spinach, celery, ginger, lettuce, oregano, mint, chard, sorrel. Or maybe all together)