Lomi Lomi Salmon Salad

Ingredients

• ¾ lb cooked or cold-smoked Salmon, flaked (traditional uses salted salmon — add ½ tsp extra salt if yours is fresh)
• 4 ripe tomatoes, diced
• 1 sweet onion, diced fine
• 3 scallions, sliced
• Crushed ice, a Hawaiian handful
• Salt

Method

1. 'Lomi' means massage: work the flaked Salmon, tomatoes, and onions together with clean hands, pressing gently so the tomato juices and fish marry into their own dressing.
2. Season with salt to a gentle brine level — this dish leans salty by design; it partners rich luau food.
3. Fold in the scallions.
4. Chill thoroughly, then stir a little crushed ice through just before serving — lomi lomi is eaten COLD, almost slushy at the edges.
5. Serve in small bowls alongside anything grilled or rich. At a luau it sits beside the heavy hitters and quietly outshines half of them.