Dressed Tomatoes with Herby Sauce and Crispy Basil
Method:
Place all ingredients for herby sauce in a blender and whiz until well combined. Taste and adjust seasoning and acidity to your liking.
Chop tomatoes into different sized chunks and place in a mixing bowl with olive oil, vinegar, salt and pepper. Mix and let those wonderful flavours develop.
Heat a frypan with a glug of olive oil. Tear up the bread into chunks and fry for a couple minutes each side until golden.
Add a little more oil and drop basil leaves into the hot oil for around 5 seconds until they crispen up and go translucent. They may spatter at you as the water content dries out so beware!
Assemble on a large platter starting with the sauce and topping with tomatoes, croutons, basil and goats cheese. Spoon over extra juices and serve.
Herby Sauce:
1/2 bunch parsley
2 handfuls basil leaves
1/2 cup packed spinach leaves (provides beautiful colour)
2 tbs chopped chives
2 anchovy fillets
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 clove garlic
1 tbsp sherry vinegar
1 tbsp olive oil
1/4 cup mayonnaise
1 tbsp yogurt
salt and peper
600g mixed tomatoes
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp red wine vinegar
salt and pepper
2 Slices sourdough bread
Basil leaves for garnish
Goats cheese for garnish
Ingredients:
- fresh parsley 1 (bunch)
- fresh basil 2 (bunch)
- spinach 1 (cups)
- fresh chives 2 (tbsp)
- anchovies 2 (pieces)
- lemon juice 1 (tbsp)
- garlic 1 (cloves)
- olive oil 2 (tbsp)
- mayonaise 0.25 (cups)
- yogurt 1 (tbsp)
- salt 1 (pinch)
- black pepper 1 (pinch)
- sherry vinegar 1 (tbsp)
- cherry tomato 600 (g)
- red wine vinegar 1 (tsp)
- goat cheese 1 (bunch)