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Tomato Olive Salad

Tomato Olive Salad. A delightfully simple and delicious side dish idea or serve it on a bed of lettuce with a sprinkle of feta cheese for a satisfying lunch.

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Tomato Olive Salad. Healthy and delicious.

We use this as a side dish, warm and cold. As a lunch, we enjoy it with some good toasted French bread and a piece of good cheese.

Sometimes, we serve it as an appetizer course at a dinner party. On those occasions, we serve it on a bed of baby spinach with a sprinkle of feta cheese over the top.

fresh red organic tomatoes on the vine

Vine ripened tomatoes are great for this recipe but you can use the same amount of canned tomatoes out of season.

You can also serve it that was as a tasty and healthy lunch idea.

To serve this Tomato Olive Salad as a hot side dish, simple take a couple of tablespoons of the olive oil and add them to a sauté pan. Saute the onions over medium heat until they soften a little.

Tomato Olive Salad in a white bowl

Tomato Olive Salad. Healthy and delicious.

Then add the olives and tomatoes to the pan and sauté for another couple of minutes just to warm them through. Remove form heat and toss with all of the remaining ingredients and serve.

One caution when seasoning this salad is not to go overboard with the salt. Since the olives are quite salty, this will need little or no additional salt added.

This Tomato Olive Salad is very simple, but very good.

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Tomato Olive Salad close up photo pf salad in a white bowl
Yield: 4 servings

Tomato Olive Salad

Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 5 minutes
Total Time: 25 minutes

Tomato Olive Salad. A delightfully simple and delicious side dish idea or serve it on a bed of lettuce with a sprinkle of feta cheese for a satisfying lunch.

Ingredients

  • 3 diced fresh tomatoes
  • ¾ cup chopped pitted olives
  • Zest and juice of one lemon
  • ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
  • ½ red onion sliced
  • ½ tsp coarse ground black pepper
  • pinch of salt (optional, see note)
  • ½ cup crumbled feta (optional)
  • ¼ cup chopped flat leaf Italian parsley

Instructions

  1. Toss all together and store in the refrigerator for a couple of hours before serving.
  2. To serve this as a hot side dish, simple take a couple of tablespoons of the olive oil and add them to a sauté pan. Saute the onions over medium heat until they soften a little.
  3. Then add the olives and tomatoes to the pan and sauté for another couple of minutes just to warm them through. Remove form heat and toss with all of the remaining ingredients and serve.

Notes

One caution when seasoning this salad is not to go overboard with the salt. Since the olives are quite salty, this will need little or no additional salt added.

Nutrition Information

Yield

4

Serving Size

1

Amount Per Serving Calories 174Total Fat 16gSaturated Fat 2gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 14gCholesterol 0mgSodium 195mgCarbohydrates 7gFiber 2gSugar 3gProtein 1g

The nutritional information provided is automatically calculated by third party software and is meant as a guideline only. Exact accuracy is not guaranteed. For recipes where all ingredients may not be used entirely, such as those with coatings on meats, or with sauces or dressings for example, calorie & nutritional values per serving will likely be somewhat lower than indicated.

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Shirley

Saturday 25th of January 2020

The picture seems to show black olives; recipe does not state. Of course, black olives would be delicious.

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