Green And Red Pepper Salad

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 2 large green peppers, halved and seeded
• 2 large red peppers, halved and seeded
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 2 tablespoons sweet onions or 2 tablespoons yellow onions, finely chopped
• 1 1/4 cups ripe tomatoes, peeled seeded and cut into a 1/4 inch dice
• 1/2 teaspoon salt (to taste)
• 1 teaspoon cumin
• 1/4 teaspoon cayenne
• 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
• 1/2 teaspoon balsamic vinegar
• 1 pinch salt
• fresh ground black pepper

Recipe

• 1 pre-heat oven to 425 degrees.
• 2 place the peppers cut-side down on a baking sheet with a lip or a baking pan. bake for 10 minutes. turn peppers over and bake for an additional 5 minutes. repeat previous step two more times. total baking time is 25 minutes.
• 3 remove tray from oven and cover with a clean dishtowel for 10 minutes. the peppers should be soft and tender and you can easily slip off the skins.
• 4 cut the green peppers into a 1/4 inch dice. slice the red pepper halves in half (now they will be quarters) and reserve.
• 5 add 1 tablespoon of oil to a non-stick skillet over medium heat. add onions and stir for a minute, then add garlic and stir for 30 seconds. add the green peppers, lower the heat a bit and cook for 5 minutes. add tomatoes, cumin and cayenne and mix well. cook an additional 6 minutes looking for the mixture to loose some of its moisture.
• 6 combine the ingredients for the dressing in a small bowl and whisk.
• 7 to assemble your salad, arrange the red pepper quarters on a serving platter -- a la spokes on a wheel or flower petals. its fine if the overlap a bit. drizzle dressing over the red peppers. spoon the green pepper-tomato mixture into the center -- allowing some to casually spill over.
• 8 alternately, you can arrange this on single serving platters with 2 red pepper quarters in a v-shape and the green pepper-tomato mixture placed where the two strips join together.
• 9 this salad can be served chilled or at room temperature.