SOUTHERN TOMATO CRACKER SALAD – The Southern Girl Chefs

Tomato Cracker Salad is a antique recipe that has been round a long time. The mix of saltine crackers, scrumptious lawn tomatoes makes the very best summer season salad.

If you happen to love tomato dishes, you should give our Southern Tomato Pie a check out! It has incredible critiques and is a summer season “should make”

❓WHAT IS SOUTHERN TOMATO CRACKER SALAD?

Mainly, tomato cracker salad is the vintage Southern tomato sandwich in a salad shape. The crackers, tomato, and mayonnaise ship the similar style because the sandwich. It’s scrumptious! I’ve learn that this recipe comes from southeast Georgia.

❤️WHY WE LOVE THIS RECIPE

Southern Tomato Cracker Salad is a vintage! I have in mind vividly the primary time I ever noticed this salad or had it served to me at a meal. My new partner’s mother, a Southern woman from Mississippi,  served it for dinner again in 1976.   I assumed it was once the grossest taking a look stuff I had ever observed and I no doubt didn’t need to devour any of it.  She was once a good looking Southern hostess and stored passing me this salad and announcing I will have to check out it.  I in the end took a little bit on my plate and was once pleasantly shocked that it was once no longer simply terrible.  I nonetheless was once no longer positive if I favored it or no longer although.  This salad will develop on you!  It changed into considered one of my favourite issues to devour at her area.  She even made it for me when I used to be unwell and taken it to me as a result of she knew how a lot I favored it.

🍴KEY INGREDIENTS

• Saltine Crackers
• Can of diced tomatoes or contemporary tomatoes
• Onion
• Inexperienced Pepper
• Boiled Eggs
• Mayonnaise
• Black Pepper

🍽️HOW TO MAKE

This tomato cracker salad couldn’t be more straightforward to place in combination! Merely combine all components EXCEPT the crackers in combination in a bowl. Refrigerate for a number of hours ahead of serving. Proper ahead of you serve, upload the overwhelmed crackers and serve on a lettuce mattress. Makes about 5 cups of salad.

Although we adore it with simply the elemental components, it’s additionally nice with shrimp or hen. It’s good to additionally upload in olives and bacon. This dish is highest when you’ll use contemporary juicy lawn tomatoes. The style is so excellent, and it’s refreshing! I really like so as to add a large number of black pepper and once in a while garlic powder too. Some other people desire so as to add the crackers on the time you serve it, whilst others assume it’s higher after it sits a little bit. I individually adore it both manner.

⭐TIP

I believe this salad is highest served in an instant when you upload the crackers. You’ll make all of it up, and upload the crackers proper ahead of serving. This is simply our desire.

📖OTHER TOMATO RECIPES

We adore recipes that use scrumptious lawn tomatoes! Those are a few of our absolute favorites.

SERVE THIS WITH

This salad is superb with with reference to any summer season meal however we agree it is going nice with those primary dishes.

STORING & SERVING SIZE

This salad is highest served within the refrigerator, see recipe notes. This makes about 5 cups.

Southern Tomato Cracker Salad

Anne Walkup

This vintage tomato cracker salad has been round a long time. If you happen to’ve by no means attempted it, you’re in for an actual deal with. Such an old school recipe.

Prep Time 20 mins minutes

Prepare dinner Time 0 mins minutes

3 hours hrs

General Time 3 hours hrs 20 mins minutes

Direction Salad

Delicacies American, southern

• 1 sleeve saltine crackers overwhelmed
• 1 14.5 ounccan diced tomatoes, undrained (I exploit contemporary tomatoes in summer season
• 1/4 cup onion chopped (can use inexperienced onions)
• 1/4 cup inexperienced pepper chopped
• 5 eggs boiled, peeled and chopped
• 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
• 1/4 to one/2 cup mayonnaise

• Combine all components EXCEPT the crackers in combination in a bowl. Refrigerate for a number of hours ahead of serving. Proper ahead of you serve, upload the overwhelmed crackers and serve on a lettuce mattress. Makes about 5 cups of salad.

You’ll simply upload celery, shrimp, cooked hen, bacon, olives, and so forth. Very flexible dish. Some other people desire so as to add the crackers on the time you serve it whilst others assume it’s higher after it sits a little bit. I individually adore it both manner.

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