This is a quick and easy recipe for Tangy Turkish Salad of romaine lettuce, cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes, onions and feta with a garlicky lemon, mint and parsley dressing. It goes wonderfully with falafels, especially if your making a pita wrap out of them.
It also pairs beautifully with this moist Greek Marinated Salmon with Tzatziki Sauce.
Here’s how you can make it…
Turkish Salad
2014-11-13 22:37:24
Serves 2
Tangy Turkish Salad of romaine lettuce, cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes, onions and feta with a garlicky lemon, mint and parsley dressing
Prep Time
10 min
Ingredients
- 1 head of romaine lettuce
- 1/2 large cucumber (or 1 small)
- 2 large tomatoes
- 1/4 green bell pepper
- 1/4 red bell pepper
- 1/2 a small red onion
- 1 clove of garlic
- Juice of one lemon (2-3 tbsp)
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp fresh ground black pepper
- 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 6-8 fresh mint leaves, finely sliced
- 1/3 cup fresh flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped
- 1/2 tsp sumac
- feta cheese and black onlives for garnish
Instructions
- Chop the lettuce in bite-size pieces. De-seed (optional) and chop the cucumber and tomatoes. Seed the the peppers, remove the cores and cut the flesh into thin strips. Cut the red onion in half, peel and finely slice it. Then toss all the chopped veggies into a large bowl.
- To make the dressing crush, peel and finely mince the clove of garlic. Add to it the juice of a large lemon, salt, pepper, olive oil, the finely chopped mint and parsley and sumac. Whisk everything together.
- Pour the dressing over the salad and toss lightly. Serve garnished with feta cheese cubes and some black olives.
Adapted from PictureTheRecipe.com
Adapted from PictureTheRecipe.com
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Hi!! I love your site!,! Keep going…
But the salad you name Turkish salad actually is called Greek salad. you have the ingredient ‘feta’ which is Greek that’s why.. Still a delicious salad
Kisses
This is essentially a Greek salad.
having a family party next week so im trying atleast 2 3 salads