Ingredients
- 1 or 2 tomatoes 1-2 tbsp. salad burnet leaves – young
- 1 small onion or shallot
- 1-2 tablespoons of plain yoghurt
- ½ tablespoon of olive oil
- Vinegar – a small splash
Salt and pepper This salad can be served as one of a number of salad items, or on a piece of fried bread like an Italian bruschetta, but unheated. The tomatoes should be nice and ripe and only use young burnet leaves.
For a more far-eastern version replace the onion with spring onion, and use some chopped, seeded, green chilli as a garnish, and serve on pitta bread.
Instructions
- Begin by skinning the tomatoes by dropping into boiling water for a couple of minutes then peeling.
- Next, quarter the tomatoes, de-seed and set aside.
- Slice the onion thinly into rings.
- Remove any excess stalk material from the burnet leaves, chop finely, and set aside.
- Place the yoghurt in a mixing bowl, stir in the oil and a small splash of white wine vinegar.
- Add tomatoes, burnet leaves, onion, seasoning to taste, and then serve.
Serves: 2
That is wonderful! I kept on seeing this plant for the past few years and I could not identify it. Now I now I can eat it. It is plentiful here too. I am in Ontario, Canada. It looks a little different here but I assume that it is due to a different region. It has yellow flowers later in a season.Thank you.
Do not eat plant which looks a little different and has yellow flowers later in a season. It can’t be Salad Burnet.
The plant you mentioned is probably Argentina anserina, a medicinal herb.
Hi Robyn- I live in Australia and there are a lot of wild apple trees on the verges of highways around our farm , and underneath the trees salad burnet grows wild. I assume it is a happy companion plant to apple. I invented a drink which tastes lovely with salad burnet leaves floating in it. I make a lemon cordial ( just a syrup really ) then peel a cucumber and keep the peel, then blend fresh ginger, the cucumber and the cordial together , then add water or soda water or mineral water, put the cucumber peel back in and float salad burnet leaves in the drink. it looks lovely and tastes very refreshing on a summer day. Love following your adventures!!
To my wife and I it tastes of walnuts. The original in the garden was store bought so I have to believe identification is correct.
Thanks for this lovely salad recipe! I find tomatoes to be great compagnions for various wild greens. My most loved tomato salad so far features Galium mollugo with a dressing implementing syrup from Trifolium pratense.
Salad Burnet I didn’t really know how to use except for throwing it into green salads. Will try your recipe…