TOMATO, PEPPER & ONION SALAD

This is a traditional Spanish tapa.  It's easy to make, delicious and a good accompaniment to Tortilla. It also keeps well in the fridge.

INGREDIENTS

Tomatoes

Red peppers

Onions

Olive oil

Sea salt

Lemon juice

You need roughly equal quantities of tomatoes, peppers and onions.

METHOD

Peel and chop the onion

Halve the tomatoes and deseed. Put the seeds in a sieve over a bowl, stir and leave to drain

Halve and deseed the pepper, chop into small chunks

Chop your tomatoes into small chunks

You want all the vegetables to be more or less equally sized

Place all the vegetables into your serving dish, sprinkle with salt and stir.  Add a splash of lemon juice and then add enough olive oil to liberally coat all the vegetables, add any juice that has drained from the tomato seeds.  Stir well and leave for at least 30 minutes before serving.  The addition of salt encourages the vegetables to release their juices which when mixed with the olive oil produces a fabulous liquor...delicious mopped up with bread!

Serve on it's own with fresh crusty bread or as part of a Tapas spread.