This Tomato, Red Onion & Coriander Salad is a fresh, vibrant dish that’s bursting with flavour and ready in minutes. Perfect as a side for curries, grilled meats or BBQs, it’s a healthy, zesty addition to any meal.
There’s no salad dressing to make as you pour the dressing ingredients straight onto the salad, making it super quick and easy!
Sometimes less is more with food, and this Tomato, Red Onion and Coriander (Cilantro) Salad is certainly testament to that.
I’ve not been feeling the salad vibe recently with the weather being so atrocious, but whenever we have curry, I always make this salad as an accompaniment.
If you can make it in advance, all the better to allow the flavours to develop. However, I have to admit that I often throw it together whilst cooking and enjoy any leftovers the next day!
I was recently sent the new Oxo Little Salad & Herb Spinner, which has undergone a bit of a makeover.
I have to say it was brilliant for spinning my coriander, and it is also big enough to spin enough lettuce to make an average-sized green salad.
The rubberised base makes it stick to the work surface, and the plunger makes spinning simply effortless.
The braking is now almost instantaneous, and the redesign from sloped to straight sides means that it is more space-efficient and easier to store.
The bowl is so smart that if you’re pushed for space in your cupboards, I would use the bowl to serve the salad in, too.
The Good Oil company also sent me a sample of their Hemp Seed Oil recently, and I have to say, aside from all the wonderful health-giving properties it has, which you can read about on their website,
I enjoyed the nutty, earthy flavour it imparted to the salad. Did you know that just 1 tablespoon gives you 94% of your daily recommended intake of Omega-3!
It has so many health benefits that I’m surprised it’s not available on prescription! It’s not just for making salad dressings, though, and can be used in the same way as extra virgin olive oil.
More Salad Recipes
Here are some more salad recipes you should try!
- Coleslaw
- Creamy Italian Salad Dressing
- Quick Nicoise Style Salad
- Avocado with Prawns & Balsamic Dressing
- Easy Greek Salad
- Edamame Salad
- Simple Carrot Salad with Orange & Ginger
- Watermelon, Feta & Mint Salad
I’m sure you will love this quick and easy Tomato, Red Onion & Coriander Salad as much as we do, so do try it!
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Tomato, Red Onion & Coriander Salad
Equipment
- Paring knife
- Wooden chopping board
- Measuring spoons
- serving dish
Ingredients
- 5 Tomatoes, sun-ripened
- 1 Red onion small
- 2 – 3 tbsp Hemp Seed Oil or Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- 1 handful Coriander leaves (cilantro)
- 1.5 tbsp Lemon or lime juice
- Freshly ground salt & pepper
Instructions
- Slice up the tomatoes and overlap in a dish.
- Cut the onion up into rings and scatter over the tomatoes.
- Chop and the coriander leaves and scatter over the top.
- Drizzle the whole salad with the hemp seed oil and lemon/lime juice.
- Season lightly with freshly ground salt and pepper.
- Serve as a side dish to curries, grilled meat, bbq food etc..
NB: I was sent the Oxo Small Herb & Salad Spinner and the Good Oil Hemp Seed Oil to use, and all opinions are my own (no payment was received).
jazmin
I plan to make it tonight to pair with a curry, as you do. Looks great!
I gave it 5 stars even without making yet lol because its the exact confirmation what I need to know to use the exact same ingredients left in my fridge which are in your recipe. (exchanging avocado oil for the hemp oil)
Thanks!
Camilla
Excellent, enjoy:-)
Cat | Curly's Cooking
I love a simple salad with a few ingredients that tastes delicious. I can imagine this is great served with a curry as you suggest.
Camilla
Thanks Cat, we actually had this tonight with a curry:-)
Paul Wilson
Looks like a great summer salad.
Camilla
Yes and a favourite with curry at any time of year:-)
Jane Davies
Love the idea of coriander in the salad, for us it’s normally oregano but will have to try this one !
Kaci Soderstrom
Never really thought about putting these ingredients together for a salad. I always stick with a really generic salad.. so this is a nice spin on it. Thanks!
Jane Middleton
Nice and healthy, will have to try this sometime.
Ursula Hunt
great and easy sidedish
bev
Looks really eyecatching – just the right mix of colours!
Sandra Jo Jo Siddall
Looks fresh and summery 🙂
Carolyn Clapham
Simple but tasty – I like it!
Bev
Looks fab!
Rachel O'neill
Sounds like a lovely summery salad
Paul Wilson
Looks very fresh.
Maya Russell
The colours are wonderful. One of my favourite salads. I have the oil – it tastes fine.
Ursula Hunt
So right some salads seem to have everything in, less is frequently better
Tracy Nixon
This looks delicious!
Annie Costa
Simple is always best,interesting fact about the oil&omega 3!
Debbie Godbolt
interesting blog i didnt think hemp oil could be used in cooking i thought it was just for beauty products lol 🙂
Samantha Fernley
I love refreshing salads like this. Always a pot of corriander on my windowsill although it’s currently looking a little sorry for itself.
Camilla
Coriander is one herb that I can never keep going on the windowsill but Basil aslways keeps going!
Javelin Warrior
Love the combination of red onion with tomato, Camilla! And such a beautiful combination of fresh and bright colors. I also have a salad spinner which I do love, although I’ve been buying a lot of pre-washed organic greens recently and not washing :/
Camilla
Thanks Mark, I couldn’t live without a salad spinner since my husband bought me one about 20 yrs ago. Now I have the big and little Oxo ones and they’re such a breeze to use:-)
Jacqueline @How to be a Gourmand
Nice and fresh Camilla! Makes a lovely side order – that oil looks really good too!
Camilla
Thanks Jacqueline, it is a nice zingy salad!
Anneli (Delicieux)
I LOVE tomato salads and I like that yours uses coriander rather than the more typical basil. Hemp Seed Oil sounds really good too. I will have to seek some out! Now I just need some sunshine to go with your salad! Thanks for entering Herbs on Saturday Camilla 🙂
Camilla
Thanks Anneli, lets hope summer arrives soon!
Joanne Blunt
That is so simple but sounds lovely. I love coriander. Thanks for mentioning the oil too; I’ll have to get some of that.
Camilla
Thanks, good food doesn’t have to be complicated does it!