Tomato and plum salad with nori and sesame

[copracat]

In 2020 I bought Ottolenghi's Flavour. Within a very short time I had a forest of sticky notes out the top. The one I made tonight is also online: Tomato and plum salad with nori and sesame.


800g mixed ripe tomatoes (beef, plum, tiger, green, yellow and cherry), large ones cut into 1cm-wide wedges, cherry tomatoes halved or quartered - I used mixed cherry tomatoes which are so sweet right now

3 ripe dark plums, stoned and cut into 1cm-wide wedges

6 spring onions, finely sliced on an angle - Didn't have any so I used thinly sliced red/Spanish onion

15g coriander leaves, roughly chopped - didn't have any and did not substitute

Dressing

1¼ tsp fish sauce

2 tsp caster sugar

2 tbsp rice vinegar

2 tsp soy sauce - just forgot this!

2 tbsp groundnut oil - didn't have any so I used walnut oil, the other option was olive oil, but it was strong flavoured

3cm piece ginger, peeled and julienned -didn't have this either so subbed 1/2 teaspoon ground

1 garlic clove, peeled and crushed

¼ tsp finely grated orange zest

Flaky sea salt

Furikake

½ sheet of nori seaweed

2 tsp black sesame seeds, toasted

1 tbsp white sesame seeds, toasted

½ tsp chilli flakes

Method is at the link above.

Judges scores are in!

With all those changes this was still delicious and refreshing and very good for a summer dish. A++ will make again. Very likely tomorrow! If I'd remembered the soy sauce it would have been too salty. In future I'll be tasting before adding the sea salt.

If you want to make it vegetarian/vegan here's a home made vegan fish sauce recipe that uses dried shitake, dulse and miso, but if you couldn't be bothered then just miso paste would be an okay substitute.

Comments

[kass]

Ooh, this looks delicious! I will have to remember this one when it is fresh tomato season here. (I have that cookbook too...)

[copracat]

Do you have a recommendation from it? Or, like me, are you at the beginning of the journey still? :)

[juniperphoenix]

This sounds amazing!

[copracat]

And forgiving of my changes :)

[siberian_skys]

Wow. That looks amazing, but way over my patience level.

[copracat]

I've been thinking about that. You could definitely replace the home made furikake with a shop bought one. The dressing is very similar to yakitori cooking sauce but with fish sauce instead of sake plus orange zest. So you could use yakitori cooking sauce for the dressing, but less of it because it would be thicker. Which, of course, presumes you want/have a bottle of yakitori sauce and a packet of furikake in your pantry :D

[siberian_skys]

Thank you. I don't know why I didn't think of that. I almost always alter recipes, because I hate onion and end up making them work. I need to check the international isle or online. I don't have a lot of faith in the local store, but you never know. I'm surprised when I find things slightly off the beaten path.

[pensnest]

That looks vry nommable.

[copracat]

It was nommed most speedily!