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Salad Fasting

Tomato and onion salad

The summer salad that stands beside the grill: ripe tomatoes, raw onion and nothing in their way.

Recipe from Туѓино Јабано

Tomato and onion salad
Prep
15 min
Cook
—
Total
15 min
Fasting
Suitable

Ingredients 9 ingredients

Method

  1. Cut the tomatoes into thick wedges, over the bowl you mean to serve them in so none of the juice is lost. That juice is half the dressing.
  2. Slice the onion as thinly as you can manage. If it is fierce, leave the slices in cold water for ten minutes and drain them well.
  3. Deseed the pepper and cut it into thin rings, and chop the parsley coarsely.
  4. Salt the tomatoes first and leave them five minutes to draw, then add the onion, pepper, parsley, oil and vinegar and turn everything over gently.
  5. Taste, grind over some pepper, and serve within the half hour. After that the onion takes over and the tomatoes go slack.

If you cannot find it

Substitutions that work outside Macedonia.

green horn pepper (piperka)
a long sweet pointed pepper such as a Romano, or half a green bell pepper
grape vinegar
red wine vinegar, or cider vinegar let down with a little water
dried Macedonian hot pepper flakes
Turkish pul biber or Aleppo pepper, which are closest in sweetness

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