Dice 3 tomatoes into cubes or small pieces. Chop 1 handful of parsley. Julienne 1 onion, rub with a little salt, then rinse and squeeze out the excess water before adding it on top of the tomatoes. Add half a dessert spoon of salt, the juice of half a lemon, 1 teaspoon of Aleppo pepper flakes, and half a tea glass of olive oil, then mix everything together.

About This Recipe

For approximately 2,000 years — from the 6th century BC Persian era through to 16th-century Italy — all pizzas were made without tomatoes. The tomato was not widely recognized and cultivated until the mid-18th century. In the 19th century it was still being grown as an ornamental plant in greenhouses in England. In America, the story is a little more complicated… Americans first encountered the tomato in 1780, and in 1781 Thomas Jefferson began growing tomatoes in Virginia. However, until the 1840s, tomatoes were believed to be poisonous in North America and their cultivation was banned.

The tomato was long regarded with suspicion and widely believed to be poisonous for many years… Wild varieties are thought to have first grown in a broad region between the Andes Mountains of South Africa and the Peru–Ecuador–Bolivia area in the pre-Columbian era. They were brought to Central America and Mexico as indigenous peoples migrated northward. The people in the regions where these natives settled generally called the fruit of the Lycopersicon sp. (tomato) plant "tomate" or "tomato." The reason for these names is quite simple: in the local language of the time, the word "tomati" was used to mean a juicy fruit with many seeds. The tomato was brought to Europe around 1550, following Christopher Columbus's departure by sea on August 3, 1492, and his discovery of America on October 12, 1492. The Italians were the first to eat tomatoes. There is evidence that the English and Spanish were growing tomatoes as ornamental plants during the 1570s. The French called it "pomme d'amour," the English called it "love apple," and the Italians named it "poma d'oro."

Today we've prepared our Tomato Salad recipe for you. Just like our Purslane Salad recipe, it's full of goodness. Enjoy!