Sweet-and-Sour Salad with Tomatoes and Afuegal Pitu Cheese Spanish Recipe

Sweet-And-Sour Salad With Tomatoes And Afuegal Pitu Cheese Spanish Recipe

Ingredients

For the DRESSING

• 1 tablespoon Spanish cider vinegar or a good-quality cider vinegar
• 3 tablespoons Spanish extra-virgin olive oil
• leaves from 1 fresh thyme sprig
• 1 tablespoon honey
• salt to taste

For the SALAD

• 8 plum tomatoes
• 2 heads of frisee lettuce, leaves separated
• 12 cherry tomatoes, halved
• 5 ounces afuega’l pitu (Spanish cow’s-milk cheese from Asturias)
• fresh chervil sprigs
• sea salt to taste

Method

1. Prepare the dressing: Whisk the vinegar, olive oil, thyme leaves, and honey together in a small bowl
2. Season to taste with salt and set aside
3. Prepare the salad: Using a sharp knife, slice off the top and bottom of each plum tomato
4. Find the fleshy dividing wall of one segment inside the tomato
5. Slice alongside the dividing wall and open the flesh of the tomato to expose the seeds
6. Remove the seeds and their pulp by slicing around the core of the tomato
7. Set the seed sacs aside
8. Your aim is to keep the seeds and their surrounding gel intact to create tomato seed fillets that are separate from the firmer tomato flesh
9. You should have about 16 fillets
10. Dice the tomato flesh and set aside
11. In a large mixing bowl, toss the frisee and cherry tomatoes with 4 tablespoons of the dressing
12. Arrange the tomato seed fillets and diced tomato pieces on each of 4 plates
13. Divide the frisee and cherry tomatoes among the plates
14. Crumble the cheese over the greens and lay a couple chervil sprigs on top
15. Drizzle with a little more dressing and garnish with sea salt, if you like

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