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Tomato steak with baked goats' cheese and herb salad

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  • Tomato steak with baked goats cheese and herb salad
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Ingredients

  • 50g dried breadcrumbs
  • Salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 1/2 tsp water
  • 1 egg
  • 4 rounds fresh goats' cheese, about 55g each
  • 4 thick, ripe beefsteak tomato Technique: Slice Cutting a thin piece or pieces from a larger ingredient or dish. You can slice ingredients using a slicing disc fitted inside your food processor. I know this Teach me, please slices
  • 2 tsps extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for the salad
  • 200g lightly packed mixed tender fresh herb leaves such as basil, chervil, tarragon, Italian (flat-leaf) parsley, chives (2 1/2cm lengths), or young cress
  • Red wine vinegar

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Method

How to make Tomato steak with baked goats' cheese and herb salad

1) In a small, shallow bowl, mix the breadcrumbs with salt and pepper to taste. Add the water and work it in with your fingers to moisten the crumbs lightly. In another small, shallow bowl, beat the egg just until blended.

2) Dip one flat surface of each goats' cheese round in the egg and then in breadcrumbs, patting the crumbs in place. Repeat on the other flat surface, leaving the sides of the rounds uncoated. Refrigerate the coated cheese rounds for about 15 minutes.

3) Centre the tomato Technique: Slice Cutting a thin piece or pieces from a larger ingredient or dish. You can slice ingredients using a slicing disc fitted inside your food processor. I know this Teach me, please slices on four salad plates. Season with salt and pepper.

4) Heat a large nonstick skillet over moderately high heat. Add the 2 teaspoons olive oil. When the oil is almost smoking, add the cheese rounds, one coated side down. Cook until lightly browned, about 45 seconds, then turn and cook on the second side until the cheese just feels quivery, about 45 seconds longer, depending on the thickness of the rounds. Place a cheese round on each tomato Technique: Slice Cutting a thin piece or pieces from a larger ingredient or dish. You can slice ingredients using a slicing disc fitted inside your food processor. I know this Teach me, please slice .

5) In a bowl, toss the herbs with a splash of red wine vinegar, a light drizzle of olive oil, and salt and pepper to taste. Mound the herbs on top of the cheese, dividing them evenly.

Serve immediately.