Colorful Tomato Salad

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4-6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Cuisines of Odesa: A Ukrainian Cookbook

By Maria Kalenska

Published 2026

  • About

A tomato salad is a must at most meals during the summer in Odesa, often made with several varieties, like in this recipe. The king of Odesan tomatoes is the Mikado, a rare variety with a short season. A single tomato can weigh 21 to 25 oz (600 to 700 g) and could serve as an entire meal. The Odesan terroir, flanked by the steppe and the sea, gives this tomato a sweet-salty flavor and an incredible aroma.

We made this salad with Anna