Persian tomato & cucumber salad (Shirazi salad)

Servings 4

Prep Time 15

Ingredients

300 g cucumber preferably Persian cucumber
4 large tomatoes
1 red onion or 2/3 spring onions
6 mint leaves
2 sprigs of parsley
2 sprigs of coriander
4 tbsp lime juice
2 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp sumac
salt
pepper

Instructions

Rinse the vegetables. Dice the tomatoes, cucumber and red onion.
Put everything into a salad bowl.
Rinse and chop the mint, parsley and coriander and sprinkle over the vegetables.
Add the oil, lime juice and sumac.
Season with salt and pepper.
Mix well to soak the raw vegetables in the seasoning. Taste and adjust the seasoning if necessary.
Place in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes. Remove from the refrigerator just before serving.

Notes

You can also add a finely diced pepper to this salad and some dill to bring even more freshness to this salad.

To make it as a complete dish, you could add this salad some chickpeas, or buckwheat (kasha), quinoa or bulgur for example, and why not add some black olives and diced feta cheese, for a Greek-Iranian salad!

Course: Side Dish

Cuisine: Persian