Are there other types of fruits that could go well with tomatoes in a salad?

  • Pronell@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Cucumbers are melons. But that has me questioning if melons are fruit and I don’t want to google it, I just want to be angry.

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    8 months ago

    I’ve had “vegetable” salads with apples, pears, grapes, nectarines (not all together lol), a bit of sweet-tartness works really well, especially with a vinaigrette type dressing.

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      8 months ago

      Pineapple and apple go well in pasta salads. Again not at the same time but the added sweetness and texture helps enhance the salad.

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    Tomatoes are a vegetable (fite me bro). They’re botanically a fruit, but they’re high in acid and don’t play well with sweet fruits - Avocado is a good other example that goes terribly with sweet fruits especially citrus.

    That said - avocado salad (aka guacamole) is amazing and tomato salad ditto - whether just tomatoes with salt or caprese.

    It’s not that tomatoes can’t be used in fruit salad it’s that they pair terribly with Honeydew, Grapefruit, Orange, Grapes, and Cantelope.

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      8 months ago

      Wait, aren’t all fruits vegetables tho? I honestly don’t know, this whole thing is confusing.

      I think we normies should have another word that fits better; “fruit” doesn’t really mean anything in culinary terms, IMHO

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    8 months ago

    Several years ago my wife grew over a dozen styles of heirloom tomatoes. There were several that I think would have worked in a fruit salad, particularly with watermelon and some basil.

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    8 months ago

    Cucumbers, tomatoes, avocadoes, sweet peppers and olives are all culinary vegetables that are botanical fruits that can be made into salads.

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    8 months ago

    Had a salad made from a mix of vegetables and tropical fruit, on La Gomera once, best salad I ever had in my life.

  • intensely_human
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    8 months ago

    Tomatoes come in two varieties:

    • Tomatoes you can slice without making a goopy mess. These tomatoes have no flavor, but have the benefit of having a physical shape
    • Tomatoes that turn into a goopy mess when you cut them. These tomatoes have flavor, but are only suitable for sauces