Contessa's Heirloom Tomatoes With Blue Cheese Dressing

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When tomatoes are ripe in the summer, this is the simplest and most delicious salad to make. It only has a few ingredients, so choose luscious ripe tomatoes and a good Roquefort cheese. Adapted from Barefoot Contessa at Home cookbook.

by Sharon123·published 2009-06-14

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Vegetable

Servings

(6–8)

Total time

15 min

prep 15 min

Calories / serving

379 kcal

Ingredients (8)

serves

3 lbs heirloom tomatoes, mixed colors and sizestomato
kosher saltsalt
fresh ground black pepperpepper
1/2 lb Roquefort cheese, divided
1 cup good mayonnaisemayonnaise
1/3 cup heavy creamheavy-cream
2 teaspoons tarragon vinegartarragon-vinegar
2 tablespoons. chopped fresh flat leaf parsleyparsley

Instructions (4 steps)

01Core the tomatoes and cut the large ones into thick slices, halve or quarter the small ones. Arrange to look pretty on a platter and sprinkle liberally with salt and pepper.
02To make dressing:.
03Place half the Roquefort cheese, maoynnaise, cream, vinegar, 1 teaspoons salt and 1/2 teaspoons pepper in the bowl of a food processor: process until combined but still chunky.
04Drizzle the dressing over the tomatoes. Crumble the remaining Roquefort cheese over the tomatoes. Sprinkle with the parsley and serve at room temperature. Enjoy!

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