Tomato Flan with mixed salad and basil crab meat- 1-/30/10
I am having a few friends over for dinner tonight! When I have friends over, I am always trying to come up with different recipes, ideas to came up with a dish. for tonight, I thought a tomato flan is totally out of the box, it can be fun and it is also something you do see very often on a plate. I decided to serve the tomato flan with a mixed salad and to make it a little fancier I added crab meat and basil for more flavors.
The tomato flan has only 3 ingredients so you need to buy really good ripe tomatoes!
I like the tomato flan because it brings a clean and fresh taste to this dish.
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Close look at the dish.
Preparation work..
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Ingredients : yield about 6 small ramekins or 10 tiny molds (see picture for the molds I used)
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Chop the onion and then cored and sliced the tomatoes. |
Put them in a bowl and season them salt and pepper. Leave the bowl out for 10 minutes so the tomatoes are soaking in the flavors. |
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Put them into a blender |
View from the top of the blender |
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Puree the tomatoes and then add the olive oil |
Blend really well. |
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This is how it should look once they are blended. |
In a large bowl Mix the gelatin with water. Leave it for about 5 minutes.. |
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Pour the pureed tomato in the bowl and then put the bowl on top of a pot with simmering water. |
When the tomato mixture is warm (about 5 minutes of stirring) remove the pot and stain the tomato puree. |
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Pour the tomato mixture inside a mold. Here I am using a pastry mold but if you don't have one use a ramekin.
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Refrigerate the mold for a least 2 to 3 hours and unmold when ready to serve. |
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Make the vinaigrette according to taste. |
When ready to serve pour the vinaigrette in the crab meat and carefully mix it together. |
Filed as: Salad/Soup; Sea food, Vegetables
