Tomato And Artichoke Salad

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 2 large artichoke bottoms, cooked and cleaned
• 2 red vine-ripened tomatoes
• 2 yellow vine-ripened tomatoes
• 2 ounces pistachios, ground into a flour (grind pistachios in grinder)
• 16 ounces port
• 16 ounces wine
• 2 1/2 cups arugula
• salt and pepper
• 3/4 cup sherry wine vinegar
• 1 cup olive oil
• salt and pepper

Recipe

• 1 cook artichokes in a pot with the port wine, wine and some salt and pepper until fork tender. remove leaves and leave just the heart.
• 2 bring a second pot of water to a boil.
• 3 remove stems from the tomatoes & make a tiny slit in the top of each. blanch tomatoes in boiling water and place immediately in an ice bath. remove the skin and slice the tomatoes into eighths.
• 4 in a medium bowl, combine vinegar and olive oil and season with salt and pepper. place tomatoes and arugula into the vinaigrette mixture.
• 5 dress salad with vinaigrette.
• 6 place salad in a single line on plate alternating tomatoes and artichokes.