Tomato Salad with a Clementine Ginger Dressing
Discovering a holiday, when you least want to acknowledge it can be rough. However, simple creations result in simple happiness. Like this flavorful Tomato Salad. The Clementine ginger dressing is unusual and versatile.
The Story of my Tomato Salad with a Ginger Clementine Dressing
There is a joy in simplicity, in the moment, watching the colorful sparkles light up the sky. Well, I have done a little more than just this salad. You should see the more complex recipes come your way in slow succession. I have to confess, in spite of myself I am finding my kitchen rhythm back.
This is salad is typical of most of the salads in our house and my life. Simple, flavorful, laced with gentle flavors. In this variation, I swapped the lime that I would used for the clementine. The blueberries are my concessions to the holiday. I was amazed at how much flavor a few key ingredients packed.
The clementine and ginger, are a powerful combination, guaranteed to lift up your spirits. Even as I have been focusing and instinctively finding my way through the kitchen, today in particular, I hit a high note with all the colors that I have cobbled together.
This was the closest thing, I could get to a Red White and Blue firework image. I have coped with today, by cooking comfort food, and sitting in my peaceful little corner. The kids have been mostly indoors as well, reading, playing chess and practicing their music and dance. We ended up indulging in mostly vegetarian fare today, possibly everything including the body needed a quite break.
I will end up accumulating lots of pictures, I seem to have rediscovered my camera with a vengeance, pictures, colors and moments are being all stacked up together like a giant jigsaw puzzle whose pieces need to come together to complete the story.
As I threw in the blueberries into the salad, I wondered if there was any other naturally blue color other than blueberries, which still sometimes seem purple to me…
If you like the idea of Clementines and ginger, consider this interesting cranberry and clementine chutney and for another hearty summer salad here is a chickpea and quinoa salad.
An easy summer tomato salad, that pairs with almost anything.
Ingredients
- 2 cups of chopped grape or regular tomatoes
- 6 white pearl onions, thinly sliced
- 1/2 cup blueberries
- 1 teaspoon finely chopped rosemary
- 1 teaspoon finely chopped cilantro
- 1 medium sized clementine
- 1 teaspoon freshly grated ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon black or pink salt
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl add in the tomatoes, onions and blueberries and toss to mix lightly
- Stir in the rosemary and the cilantro and mix well.
- Cut the clementine into half and discard the seeds if any and squeeze in the juice in a small bowl.
- Add in the ginger and the salt and mix well.
- Drizzle over the tomato mixture and serve immediately.