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This is one of the most popular salads at the Iranian dinner table. It is named after one of Iran’s historical, magical and beautiful cities, Shiraz. A very simple salad, if you add cilantro instead of mint and add jalapeno, it would be Pico de Gallo, a Mexican salad. If you skip the mint, add olives and feta cheese, it would be Greek salad!
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Salad Shirazi • سالاد شیرازی
Recipe by: Fae’s Twist & Tango (fae-magazine.com)
INGREDIENTS
• 2 Persian cucumbers (200 gr/ 7 oz) -or- English cucumber
• 2 medium tomatoes (200 gr/ 7 oz)
• 70 gr/ 2.5 oz red onion
• ½ tsp dried mint leaves
• salt and ground black pepper to taste
• 1~2 Tbsp lime or lemon juice
• 1 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• a sprig or two of fresh mint for garnish (optional)
DIRECTIONS
◊ Cut cucumber (with or without peel), tomatoes, red onion into 1cm cubes and place them in a small salad bowl.
◊ Sprinkle with dried mint, salt, pepper, lime juice, olive oil and stir. Garnish with fresh mint leaves.
~ Noushe jan! • نوش جان ~
Note
♦ This post was originally published on 2013/11/13 under title International Salad Bar
♦ Check out other beautiful salads on Recipe Index
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So, what’s cooking in your kitchen?
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Your photos look delectable! I just wanted to say thank you for the like. I made sure to follow you, I think your food ideas are great, if I try any and make them dairy-free, I will make sure to link them back to you when that happens. I hope we can continue to support each other
Thank you for your kind words! And yes, please feel free to make/post any of my recipes dairy-free and link back to my post. I also have a “Look I made it!” feature, which I post the thumbnails of recreation of my recipes. Check here > Zebra Cake. And, I feature them on my > FB fan page too.
This look good and refreshing!
And…easy to make!
In Morocco we have the same salad but instead of onions we use fresh garlic, and sometimes grilled green peppers
Wow, that sounds so aromatic and fabulous. I shall give it a try!
This is such a pretty, colorful salad!
Yes, it is a good photo. 😀 )))
Beautifully fresh and colourful Fae! Lovely!
It goes very well with Persian chelo (rice) and kabab… which we just had for dinner. 😀 )))
Fae loving these fresh and delicious flavours in your salad.
It is really refreshing, goes very well with meat dishes.
I love this salad and I always make it with cilantro and serrano peppers, Yum! It is perfect with most Persian foods. Love the picture!
It sure does go well with most Persian food. Today, we had it with chelo kabab. 😛
Nice Blogs…
Thank you very much Grolier!
Please visit again.
Mmmmmmm! Simple and fresh. I’m going to try both the Persian and Mexican versions.
You are a very wise person, Camie! 😀 )))