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#24 Tomato and basil salad dressing

Equipment

  • Blender

 Blendtec Xpress blender

 

Ingredients

  • three or four tomatoes (300g)

  • half of a peeled lemon

  • two cloves of garlic

  • dessert spoon of olive oil

  • handful of fresh basil leaves

  • a few grains of salt

Alternatives

  • one or two green tomatoes from the garden go well in this

  • Try lime instead of lemon

Acknowledgements

  • Thanks to Barbara for testing this.

tomatoes

 

lemon

 

garlic

 

olive oil

 

basil

 

Himalayan rock salt

Tomato and basil salad dressing

Tomato and basil salad dressing

A simple and tasty salad dressing

Method

Remove the skin from the garlic cloves and blend until fine

Add the tomatoes. Remove any large pips from the lemon half and add that too.

Discard any stalks and add the basil leaves.

Continue blending until well mixed.

Add the olive oil and a few grains of salt

Blend together until smooth

Serve

Pour into a small serving jug or similar

Serve with a lettuce based salad

Afterwards

Clean the blender

Recycle the waste

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