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Fire and Ice Salad

By Diana Rattray, About.com

A vegetable salad recipe, with tomatoes and cucumbers.

Ingredients:

  • 4 medium tomatoes, each cut into eight wedges
  • 1 medium green pepper, julienne cut
  • 1 small jalapeno chile pepper, minced
  • 1 medium onion, thinly sliced
  • 3/4 cup cider vinegar
  • 1/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 1/2 tsp mustard seed
  • 1 1/2 tsp celery seed
  • 1 tsp prepared horseradish
  • 1 tsp salt
  • hot pepper sauce, to taste, optional
  • 2 medium cucumbers, peeled and thinly sliced

Preparation:

In a large bowl, combine tomatoes, green pepper, jalapeno pepper, and sliced onion; set aside. In a saucepan, combine vinegar, sugar, mustard and celery seed, horseradish, salt, and hot pepper sauce, if using; bring to a boil; boil for 1 minute. Pour over vegetables. Let stand until mixture comes to room temperature, then stir in sliced cucumbers. Refrigerate for 2 hours. Drain just before serving.
This recipe was posted by Sharon

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