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summer tomato and horseradish salad

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6

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For this salad it’s great to try and get a whole mixture of different tomatoes, at room temperature, nice and ripe. Let them sunbathe on the window ledge if need be! Try and get hold of fresh horseradish – give your greengrocer a challenge to get some in.

Cut the bigger tomatoes into slices about 1cm/½ inch thick. You can halve the cherry tomatoes or leave them whole. Then sprinkle them all with a good dusting of sea salt. Put them in a colander and leave them for 30 minutes. What's going to happen here is that the salt will draw the excess moisture out of the tomatoes, intensifying their flavour. Don't worry about the salad being too salty, as a lot of the salt drips away.

Place the tomatoes in a large bowl and dress with enough extra virgin olive oil to loosen (approximately 6 tablespoons), and 1–2 tablespoons of vinegar, but do add these to your own taste. Toss around and check for seasoning – you may or may not need salt but will certainly need pepper. Add the garlic. Now start to add the horseradish. Stir in a couple of teaspoons to begin with, toss around and taste. If you like it a bit hotter, add a bit more horseradish. All I do now is get some finely sliced flat-leaf parsley (stalks and leaves) and mix this into the tomatoes. Toss everything together and serve as a wonderful salad, making sure you mop up all the juices with some nice squashy bread.

This salad is fantastic with roast beef, goat's cheese or jacket potatoes. And to be honest, even if you put these tomatoes in a roasting tray and roasted them with some sausages scattered around them it would be nice.

• from Jamie's Dinners

ingredients

• 4 large handfuls of mixed tomatoes
• sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
• extra virgin olive oil
• good red wine vinegar
• ½ a clove of garlic, grated
• 2 teaspoons fresh horseradish, grated, or jarred hot horseradish
• a small handful of fresh flat-leaf parsley, finely sliced

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1. by sbboston on Wed 17 Aug 2011 @ 04:09

Tomatoes (cherry, roma, peach, green zebra), arugula and chinese mustard. Great bite and freshness. No dripping "excess" moisture, please! Keep that beauty right in the bowl and sop it up with loads of crusty bread. Hear the angels sing?

2. by Andrew Morrison on Tue 16 Aug 2011 @ 16:34

Find someone with a plant and take a root cutting in spring. It's a spectacular-looking plant but has a tendency to take over the garden - plant your cutting in a container in the ground

3. by Shannon on Tue 16 Aug 2011 @ 14:24

Sort of like a virgin bloody Mary on a plate :)

4. by Larissa on Tue 16 Aug 2011 @ 14:07

Hi! i'm brazilian and lived in London 8 years ago... i remember of horseradish sauce, but i don't know exactaly what horseradish is... i tried to looking for a translate on internet, but have no results. Could you help me? i don't know if i can finsd this here in Brazil, or something similar... Thanks, love your job!

5. by Rawan on Tue 16 Aug 2011 @ 14:00

love it !! love you <3 i had a crush on you since your first appearance on TV <3 u'r awesome (Y)

6. by Samah on Mon 15 Aug 2011 @ 10:35

Bonjour, Je suis de Marseille et je parle très peu l'anglais, j'aimerais juste transmettre un message à Jamie Oliver afin de lui dire qu'il est très regardé sur cuisine TV la chaîne qui transcrit ses émissions en France et que je suis une vrai fan depuis "the nacked chef" alors que j'avais 10 ans et jusqu'à aujourd'hui avec "la cuisine express de jamie Oliver" sans parlé de "jamie au vert" moi même passionné par la cuisine je refais toute ses recettes avec succès !!! Gros Bisous de Marseille !! Samah

7. by Alison Roberts on Tue 23 Jun 2009 @ 16:02

I watched Jamie make this salad the other night and it looked so easy, so yes I tried it, and this is absoloutely amazing, especially on a hot summers night with a nice glass of chilled white wine!!!!!

8. by Nicki on Mon 04 May 2009 @ 18:24

Hi,
I have brought some fresh horseradish, and I was wondering if there was anything else I could do with it apart from making Horseradish Sauce, as Jamie is becoming one of my favorite chefs and have just enjoyed hosting one of his parties, I was hoping he could help.

Thankyou

Nicki Sahara

9. by SUE WINNING on Sat 02 May 2009 @ 21:58

Its great reading all these recipes with fresh horseradish but no one lets squeak where to buy the stuff !!!!! I have tried every place under the sun ................... does ANYONE know ???????

10. by Mary Gill on Sun 08 Mar 2009 @ 13:16

I have always enjoyed watching Jamie cook on SA television, and I'm looing thro his recipies. I am a 78 yr old Scot. How about some old fashioned Scottish recipies?

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