Tomatoes and strawberries with Thai style dressing
Dressing plays a major role in this salad. Tomatoes are also required, but strawberries can be replaced with peaches, apricots, plums or currants.
Ingredients
Servings 6- 4-5 ripe Uzbek tomatoes
- 200 g strawberries
- 1 red Crimean onion
- salt
- fried cheese for serving, optional
- lime zest and freshly ground black pepper
- 100 ml vegetable oil
- 2 kaffir lime leaves
- 1 tsp tom yum pasta
- 1 tsp lime juice and fish sauce
- 0.5 tsp powdered sugar
Cooking
Step 1
For dressing, remove the stalk and central “vein” from the lime leaves, finely chop the rest.
Step 2
Put the chopped leaves in a blender, pour in the oil, grind until smooth. Add all other dressing ingredients and whisk again.
Step 3
Peel the onion, cut into half-feathers, put in ice-cold salted water for 15 minutes.
Step 4
Remove the stalks from the strawberries, cut the berries into bite-sized pieces. Cut the tomatoes into large slices.
Step 5
Mix tomatoes, strawberries and dried onions, pour dressing, mix, sprinkle with zest and black pepper, serve immediately (if desired, with fried cheese such as halloumi or suluguni).