A simple Indian style spring onion and tomato salad can be served as a side dish with home cooked food
Scallion, green onions, salad onions or spring onions people know them with different names.
Spring onions are very rich in vitamins and protective against many cancers. Spring onions helps destroy worms from stomach.
These onions are very popular in every region of the world. Spring onions are used for various dishes like salads, garnishing, soups, stir fry etc. I generally prefer using combination of whites and greens both for my dishes. I like to include spring onions in chinese noodles, baingan bharta, lemon coriander soup, fried rice etc. Sometimes I also like eating them straight with little salt but that is not for the fainthearted.
Today Ii am making a simple yet tasty Indian style salad with spring onions. In this salad too I have included the whites and greens of onions which combined with the red tomatoes make the salad very colorful. The raw onions give a nice crunchy feel to the salad.
I always prefer making this salad for dinner as the onions tend to leave a bad smell in mouth. Serve this as side dish with a Kathiyawadi meal like Bhakhri, veggies, vaghareli khichdi, jaggery and pickle. Wow mouth-watering :)
So lets proceed step by step for making spring onion and tomato salad
You require very basic and just 4 ingredients to make this salad. Spring onions, tomatoes, red chilli powder and salt.
Rinse spring onions under cool running water. Place it on chopping surface and trim its roots, as shown in the picture below. Discard the trimmed roots
Discard about 2 inches of the greens from top. Peel a single skin from the spring onion if necessary.(If the layer is dirty)
Chop the spring onion whites and green into small circles as shown in the picture below. Leave a few whites and green aside for decoration.
Now roughly chop a tomato
Transfer the chopped onions and tomatoes in a bowl
Add salt to taste
Add some red chilli powder
Mix well all the ingredients and the salad is almost ready.
Garnish with some chopped whites and greens we kept aside for decoration. Spring onion & Tomato Salad is ready.
Recipe of Spring onion & Tomato Salad
A simple Indian style spring onion & tomato salad, served as a side dish with home cooked meal | ||||||
Cuisine:
Indian
Category: Side Serves: 2 |
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Ingredients
- 1 Spring Onion
- 1 Tomato
- 1/4th tablespoon Red Chilli Powder
- Salt to Taste
Instructions
- Rinse spring onions under cool running water. Place it on chopping surface and trim its roots, as shown in the picture below. Discard the trimmed roots
- Discard about 2 inches of the greens from top. Peel a single skin from the spring onion if necessary.
- Chop the spring onion whites and green into small circles as shown in the picture below. Leave a few whites and green aside for decoration
- Now roughly chop a tomato
- Transfer the chopped onions and tomatoes in a bowl
- Add salt and red chilli powder
- Mix well all the ingredients and the salad is ready.
- Garnish with some chopped whites and greens we kept aside for decoration. Spring onion & Tomato Salad is ready.
This sounds lovely and really tasty. Thank you for sharing this.
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