Salata Meshwiya

Name: Salata Meshwiya
Cuisine: Tunisian
Ingredients: Salt and black pepper; 3 tablespoons lemon juice; 4 tablespoons olive oil; 375 g (12 oz) firm tomatoes; 2 large sweet peppers; 1 mild onion or 6–7 spring onions; 1 tablespoon capers; A 100-g (3½-oz) tin of tuna fish; 2 tablespoons finely chopped parsley; 1 hot dried chilli pepper (optional); 2 hard-boiled eggs, sliced

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A New Book of Middle Eastern Food

By Claudia Roden

Published 1986

About

This salad is very popular all over North Africa, particularly in Tunisia. It is not unlike the French salade niçoise, so its origin might just as well be Nice as Tunis.

Ingredients

375 g (12 oz) firm tomatoes
2 large sweet peppers

Africa
Tunisia
Fish course
Pescatarian
Mediterranean
North Africa
Gluten-free

Method

If you wish to skin the tomatoes, plunge them in boiling water for a minute or two first. Halve the sweet peppers and grill them skin side up until they are soft and mellow. Skin and seed them. Chop the onions and the chilli pepper finely. Slice off one end of the tomatoes, scoop out the seeds and juice, and slice them. Cut the sweet peppers into narrow ribbons.

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