Heritage tomato and olive salad

Salata Tamatim Wa Zytoun

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    generously
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Red Sea Cookbook: Over 100 family recipes and stories from Saudi Arabia

By Madeeha Qureshi

Published 2026

  • About

This recipe is a display of my colourful personality, if I say so myself! Salata tamatim is a very humble salad that celebrates the freshness of local tomatoes. It is traditionally made with a gorgeous beef tomato variety grown in the agricultural plateaus surrounding the Red Sea coastline and olives from a Palestinian grove, and it is sweet, tangy and fragrant, to say the least. A match made in heaven, just like me and my dad.

I fell in love with British heritage tomatoes at first