Heritage tomato salad
Do you have a favorite vegetable? I have many but one of my favorite vegetables is tomatoes. I try to always have some at home. They are delicious on their own and with so many things, in a salsa, sliced on a sandwich, with cheese, hot, cold, I can’t name them all here.
One of the things that makes me really excited is heritage tomatoes. They come in so many colors and the flavor ranges from slightly tart to very sweet, just delicious.
I found some in a farm shop and bought a few. They have a beautiful skin.
The colors were so beautiful I wanted to make a tomato salad. I went out in the garden and came back with a small bounty of baby broad beans, soft herbs and nasturtium.
Heritage tomato and watermelon salad
preparation time 10 minutes
cooking time 0 minutes
serves 2 as a starter, 4 as a side dish
Ingredients
- 3 tomatoes, cut in to 8th, core removed
- red onion, thinly sliced
- 1/2 garlic clove, peeled and sliced thinly
- dill
- coriander
- baby broad beans
- nasturtium leaves and flower petals
- basil leaves
- watermelon, de seeded and sliced
- olive oil
Place the tomatoes on a serving plate and add the remaining ingredients. I started by adding the onion, garlic, broad beans and basil leaves before adding the remaining ingredients.
Last add extra virgin olive oil and serve.
Tomatoes and watermelon works really well together and the flavors of the herbs brought the salad together. It was the tomatoes that inspired me to make the salad and they were as delicious as they were beautiful.
It isn’t much cooking but as it is a taste of summer I am bringing this to the always lovely Angie’s Fiesta Friday!
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Beautiful photos! Thank you for sharing your recipe.
hi Becky
Am glad you like it! Enjoy the week! 🙂
Absolutely stunning imagery. Looks delish! 😍
hi Gail
Thank you! The tomatoes were so beautiful I knew I had to make something that would show it off 🙂
Have a great week ahead!
What a stunning, eye-catching gorgeous presentation! Lovely ! However, I can’t see the watermelon nor the broad beans: where have you hidden them?
hi Jo
Am glad you like it! The watermelon is nestled in the middle and the broad beans are just baby ones and scattered around like little green dots (they are more visible on the shot from above)! I love the combination of watermelon and tomatoes!
Have a great week 🙂
This salad is beautifully presented Petra! I’ve never had watermelon and tomato in one dish but this flavour combination sounds really delicious:)
hi Monika
Thank you! Watermelon and tomato is a wonderful combination! They are perfect together in a salsa with herbs and some chilli as well! I hope you try it 🙂
Your recommendation means a lot so I just might give it a go:)
hi Monika
Oh, thank you 🙂 I hope you will like it if you try it! x
That’s just beautiful! Can’t wait to have my own homegrown tomatoes! I grow heirloom varieties, too. Btw, no salt for the salad?
hi Angie
Thank you so much! I wanted to find the green heirloom tomato to grow but couldn’t find it. I might try and save some seeds from actual tomatoes for next year! However that will turn out 🙂
No salt this time but you are right, a sprinkle of sea salt would have been lovely! I think the flavours of the soft herbs distracted me!
Absolutely gorgeous!!!!!
hi Elaine
Thank you! 🙂 The tomatoes were so beautiful!
Looks so professional and amazing, the salad must be very fresh and flavourful!
hi Chef Kreso
Thank you so much! The combination of watermelon and tomato is great and the soft herbs brings the salad together 🙂
hi Martha
Thank you for the re blog, I am glad you like it 🙂