Summer Red Passion - Strawberry and Tomato Salad for Creative Cooking Crew

For the first time I am joining a new cooking group on FB my dear friend Joan gently invited to.
This month's challenge for the Creative Cooking Crew was to create a complete dish with only one color.
Well, we are in Summer, the Queen season for choice of colored food with such a large variety to get your favorite!
And I straight went for red, red like passion, passion to food, to love, to life.

This is an unusual salad, but fresh and inviting, very special and quite an almost pungent flavor for the presence of garlic and chili. However, better not to abuse of, as the freshness of tomato and strawberry are the genuine flavors to be enhanced.

Ideal for a cold bruschetta or with your Sunday BBQ.

Ingredients:

 ripe strawberries

ripe cherry/datterini tomatoes

(or red round tomatoes)

lime

fresh chilli 

garlic

coriander or parsley

(or basil)

extra virgin olive oil

salt

If you use round tomatoes, blanch in boiling water, then put immediately in cold water, peel, cut into wedges and remove seeds.

For cherry/datterini tomatoes  simply cut them in half after they have been washed and dried.

Gently wash strawberries and cut into halves, or slice if they are big.

Finely chop the chilli (unseeded) with garlic and coriander/parsley leaves.

Combine everything in a bowl, season with lime juice, olive oil and salt.

Let the salad rest in the refrigerator, covered with foil, for a couple of hours to get amalgamated. 

Then serve with toasted bread.

My coriander plant was blooming and I had some tiny white flowers to garnish the salad.