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Yellow Tomato and Orange Pepper Salsa

 

 

 

Serve this sunny salsa and it will add plenty of flavour-and colour-to finished dish without piling on the calories.

 

Serving: 4-6


Ingredients

  • 4 yellow tomatoes

  • 1 orange pepper

  • 4 spring onions, plus extra to garnish handful of fresh coriander leaves juice of 1 lime

  • Salt and freshly ground black pepper

    Directions

  • Halve the tomatoes and scoop out the seeds, using a teaspoon, and discard. Finely chop the flesh.

  • Spear the pepper on a metal fork and turn it in a gas flame for 1-2 minutes until the skin blisters, or place it under a hot grill and turn frequently.

  • Peel off and discard the skin. Remove the core and scrape out the seeds. Finely chop the flesh.

  • Finely chop the spring onions and coriander, and then mix both with the pepper and tomato flesh.

  • Squeeze over the lime juice and add salt and pepper to taste. Toss well to mix. Finally, transfer the prepared salsa to a serving bowl and chill until you are ready to serve. Garnish with a few fine shreds of spring onion.

  Nutritional Information
  Per portions:

  • Energy: 26Kcals/108kJ
  • Fat, total: 0.4g
  • Saturated fat: 0.3g
  • Protein: 1.1g
  • Carbohydrate: 4.8g
  • Sugar, total: 4.7g
  • Fibre-NSP: 1.4g
  • Sodium: 8.2mg