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Cherry Tomato Salad with Pesto
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Cherry Tomato Salad with Pesto

Cherry tomato salad with homemade basil pesto – simple, colorful and full of Mediterranean flavors

⏱ 40 min🍽 4 servings 🌍 Mediterranean👩‍🍳 Afoona🧩 2 parts

👨‍🍳 Method

For the Pesto

  1. 1
    Grind the leaves in a food processor with the nuts, garlic, lemon juice, salt and black pepper.
    ⚙ Grinding in a Food ProcessorFood processor
    💡In a food processor, grind in short pulses and check between pulses: it's easy to go from coarse to paste. (Sesame for tahini, on the other hand, is ground continuously.)
  2. 2
    Add the Parmesan and grind.
    Food processor
  3. 3
    Add the olive oil in a thin stream, while Tahini, until to a smooth sauce.
    ⚙ Fat in a Thin StreamFood processor
    💡Pesto keeps in the fridge about two weeks in a closed jar, covered with a layer of olive oil. The top layer darkens from the air, and that doesn't mean it has spoiled.
    💡The thin stream is everything: fat that goes in too fast can't bind, and the sauce breaks. For mayonnaise and hollandaise, if this happens, start with a fresh yolk and slowly add the broken sauce to it; if the sauce is too thick, thin it with a teaspoon of water.

To assemble

  1. 4
    Put the tomatoes in a large bowl.
    Bowl
  2. 5
    Pour in the pesto and toss gently until evenly coated.
224calories
5 gprotein
5 gcarbs
21 gfat
● protein 9%● carbs 8%● fat 82%

Per serving (146 g), of 4 servings

For the Pesto · To assemble ·

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (2)

  • Food processor · Also works: Knife (More time and handwork, less even texture) · Electric mini chopper (Small amounts) · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Blender (Needs more liquid)
  • Bowl · Also works: Pot (None)

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