Fresh salad
Photo credit: Céline de Cérou
Ingredients
For
3
personnes
- 2 courgettes
- 4 tomatoes
- 1 red onion
- 2 c. à soupe olive oil from the Baux-de-Provence Valley – ripened olives PDO
- 1 green pepper
- The juice of one lime
- 1 small chilli (e.g. jalapeño – optional)
- 20 mint leaves
- A few sprigs of parsley or coriander
- Salt (pepper)
Tip
For this refreshing salad, choose an olive oil from the Vallée des Baux-de-Provence – made from ripened olives PDO (ripe flavour) for its aromas of toast, black olives, candied fruit and forest floor. Or choose an PDO olive oil from Provence – made from mature olives, PDO Aix-en-Provence – made from mature olives, or a French olive oil with a mature flavour.
Instructions
Peel the red onion. Wash the vegetables (courgette, tomato, pepper). Remove the seeds from the pepper. Cut everything into julienne strips.
- Finely chop the mint and parsley (or coriander).
Mix everything together in a salad bowl, then add the salt, pepper, lime juice and olive oil from the Vallée des Baux-de-Provence – PDO matured olives – and mix again.
Chill for half an hour, then serve.
Tip
For this refreshing salad, choose an olive oil from the Vallée des Baux-de-Provence – made from ripened olives PDO (ripe flavour) for its aromas of toast, black olives, candied fruit and forest floor. Or choose an PDO olive oil from Provence – made from mature olives, PDO Aix-en-Provence – made from mature olives, or a French olive oil with a mature flavour.
We recommend...
For this recipe, choose a PDO huile d'olive de la Vallée des Baux-de-Provence – olives maturées for its notes of candied olive, black olive, olive paste, cocoa, mushroom, cooked artichoke, truffle and sourdough bread. You could also choose PDO huile d'olive d'Aix-en-Provence – olives maturées or PDO huile d'olive de Provence – olives maturées.
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