Polish tomato salad with onion and sour cream, a summer supper
Tomatoes in thick slices, onion in thin rings, a spoon of sour cream, chives, salt and plenty of pepper. A handful of ingredients and ten minutes, on one condition: the tomatoes must be ripe, August ones, warm from the sun. Cold January tomatoes will get you nowhere.
Your own work in that: 10 min.
- Slicing 5 min
- Sour cream and seasoning 5 min
Step by step
0 / 4 doneSlice the tomatoes thickly
Wash the tomatoes, remove the stalks and cut with a sharp knife, ideally serrated, into slices 1 cm thick. Thick slices hold their juice; thin ones turn the plate into soup. Don't keep tomatoes in the fridge: cold dulls their flavour and aroma.
Ingredients: 800 g tomatoes · 1 pcs onion · 4 tbsp sour cream, 18 % · ½ bunch chives · ½ tsp salt · ½ tsp freshly ground black pepper · 1 pinch sugar
Centimetre slices, with a serrated knifeSlice the onion thinly
Cut the onion into very thin rings. If it is sharp, drop the rings into cold water for 5 minutes and drain: they lose the bite and stay crunchy.
TipWhite or sweet onion is mild from the start. Ordinary yellow onion needs the water bath or a scald with boiling water.
Rings thin as paperArrange and salt
Lay the tomato slices on a plate, overlapping. Scatter the onion over. Salt, and if the tomatoes are sharp, add a pinch of sugar. Wait 2 minutes: the salt draws out juice that mixes with the sour cream into a dressing.
Tomatoes, onion, saltSour cream, chives, pepper
Spoon the sour cream over the tomatoes, sprinkle with chives and plenty of freshly ground pepper. Serve at once with buttered bread for mopping up the juices.
Ingredients: 4 pcs bread · 20 g butter
Sour cream, chives, lots of pepper
Before you start
With oil instead of cream
A spoon of linseed or olive oil and a few basil leaves: the dairy-free version, closer to the South.
With cucumber
Half a cucumber in thin slices between the tomatoes. The classic garden salad, an August supper.
On a sandwich
The same tomatoes with onion and sour cream on a thick slice of buttered bread: the best sandwich of summer.
