Salad With Roasted Peppers – Excellent Combination of Mediterranean Flavours
This salad is all about the excellent combination of Mediterranean ingredients.
You will find here delicious tomatoes and roasted sweet peppers. And they are combined with salty anchovies, slightly acidic capers, crunchy pine nuts and fragrant basil.
All of these ingredients complement each other to create a delicious, refreshing and fragrant salad.
Salad With Roasted Peppers – a Few Tips
When I make the Salad with Roasted Peppers, I prefer to finish it off just before serving it. It’s because I don’t like when the tomatoes go soft from being covered by dressing for too long.
However, you can prepare a lot much earlier to ease the pressure in case the salad is to be served to guests.
You can roast, peel and cut the peppers even a day earlier. And you can arrange all the ingredients on a serving plate a couple of hours before serving.
You can even put all the dressing ingredients in a jar. So in the end, you only have to mix the dressing, pour it over the salad and enjoy this yummy salad.
P.S. If you like tomatoes and Mediterranean flavours, I think, you will like this Pasta Salad too 🙂
Salad with Roasted Peppers and Tomatoes
Ingredients
- 3 red peppers
- 3 tomatoes (I used raspberry and black tomatoes)
- 3 anchovies drained and chopped
- 1 tbsp capers drained
- 1 tbsp pine nuts
- 1 clove garlic thinly sliced,
- Dressing:
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- a few basil leaves chopped
- salt and pepper
Instructions
- Preheat a grill in an oven.
- Cut the peppers in half, remove stalks and seeds, cut in half lengthways again and arrange the quarters up on a baking tray; put under the hot grill till the skin chars (this will take approx. 10-15 min. but frequently check as required time depends on a grill).
- Put the charred peppers in a bowl, cover with cling film and leave to cool.
- Peel the peppers and cut them into strips.
- Cut the tomatoes into bite-size portions.
- Arrange the tomatoes, peppers, sprinkle with anchovies, capers, pine nuts, and garlic in a big bowl,
- Mix all the dressing ingredients until combined and pour over the salad, season.
- Stir the salad before serving.
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