Choose these five tomato varieties for a juicy and fragrant summer salad!
Refreshing as you want, the tomato, we like it juicy and fragrant! This tasty vegetable product is the star of salads, especially when the good weather arrives. When choosing your tomato, it’s hard to find your way around. This fruit is so popular that there are countless varieties. How do you find the one that will go best with your salad? There are a few tips and special features to know.
When choosing a raw tomato salad, choose brightly colored ones. The undisputed ally of your summer salads is the beefsteak. Grown in France, it originally comes from South America. This large variety of tomato is recognizable by its heart shape and its very red color. Its flesh is fleshy and sweet, rich in vitamin C, and generally very fragrant. Just as large, the orange-yellow Pineapple tomato offers juicy and very fragrant flesh. When cut, it looks like a slice of pineapple… Hence its name! Enough to delight children. The Black of Crimea, a large, slightly flattened ribbed fruit of dark purple color, is also one of the best tomatoes to eat in salad thanks to its dense, juicy and sweet flesh, without any acidity.
Next, let’s move on to the smaller tomatoes. The Green Zebra tomato, which owes its name to its orange-yellow skin striped with green, is one of the best varieties for salads. Its juicy, sweet and very slightly acidic flesh goes perfectly with a colorful salad that plays on sweet and sour. Finally, the Osu Blue, a small round tomato with a naturally blue color, is a rarer variety. Its very juicy and sweet flesh is a real delight in a salad. Obviously, if you can’t find these two varieties of small tomatoes in the supermarket, cherry tomatoes or cocktail tomatoes on the vine will also do the trick and will appeal to the little ones.
As you will have understood, the tomatoes to favor for salad always have a well-colored skin. Make sure that their skin is shiny and smooth and do not hesitate to touch and smell them before choosing them. A tomato must be firm to the touch and generally fragrant. We will not choose a tomato that is too soft or too hard, and preferably local and above all, seasonal. This is why it is always better, as far as possible, to get them from a market gardener who will be able to advise you best.