Elaines Heart-Healthy Tomato-Pepper Appetizer
From chefelaine 15 years ago
- - to make
- Serves 2
High in Vitamin C, and a wealth of other vitamins and minerals, this colorful appetizer will gracefully enhance any meal!
Ingredients
- 2 medium-sized, ripe, firm tomatoes shopping list
- ½ green sweet bell pepper shopping list
- ½ yellow sweet bell pepper shopping list
- ½ orange sweet bell pepper shopping list
- 3 shallots shopping list
- 1 ½ tsp dried or 2 ½ tsp fresh chives shopping list
- ¼ cup carrot shreds shopping list
- salt & pepper to taste shopping list
- 1/8th tsp ground ginger shopping list
- 2 tbsp Classic Italian salad dressing shopping list
- 1 cup shredded green leaf lettuce shopping list
How to make it
- DIR
- Cut the top off both tomatoes
- Reserve tops!
- Scoop out tomatoes, reserving contents
- Shred the lettuce with a plastic knife. (metal or steel rusts the lettuce)
- In a mini-processor, finely chop the peppers individually, placing each color into separate dishes
- Finely process the shallots, placing into a separate dish
- Place tomato contents you scooped out, chives, ginger, and carrot into the mini-processor and liquefy
- Plating:
- On small salad plates, lay a bed of half the lettuce on each plate
- Fill tomatoes with layers of the peppers and shallots
- Place tomatoes on the lettuce bases
- Add 1 tbsp each of the Italian salad dressing, and replace the tomato tops
- Place some peppers around the lettuce bases
- Add 4 generous dollops of the liquefied tomato blend around the tomatoes
- Refrigerate until serving
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The Rating
Reviewed by 11 people-
Another great one Chef Elaine, this is really a beautiful dish! My wife will love this one! I hope all is well in your world!! This is a 5! Thanks for another great one in a long line of great ones! Great pics as well! Dooley
dooley
in Crossroads loved it
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Sounds delish Chef! Hard to beat a good garden fresh tomato.
gapeach55
in Covington loved it
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WOw Chef great recipe thanks bunches high5
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in Mountianview loved it
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