Fernando Farah

Palm heart salad

Salada de palmito

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    1-2

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Food and Cooking of Brazil
The Food and Cooking of Brazil

By Fernando Farah

Published 2011

  • About

Hearts of palm (palmito) are available fresh as well as conserved in jars or canned. Fresh ones are an expensive delicacy, but most Brazilians are happy to pay a little extra for meals containing palmito, which has found its way into hundreds of recipes.

Ingredients

  • 4 or 5 large palm heart stalks
  • 2 ripe but firm plum tomatoes
  • 1 large red onion

Method

1 Trim the ends of the palm heart stalks with a sharp knife to ensure they have flat ends, then cut each in half diagonally into two equal-sized wedge shapes.

2 Cut a slice from the base of the tomato and discard. Chop the tomato into quarters.