Turkish Salad

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

Tangy Turkish Salad of romaine lettuce, cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes, onions and feta with a garlicky lemon, mint and parsley dressing.

Ingredients

1. 1 head of romaine lettuce
2. 1/2 large cucumber (or 1 small)
3. 2 large tomatoes
4. 1/4 green bell pepper
5. 1/4 red bell pepper
6. 1/2 a small red onion
7. 1 clove of garlic
8. Juice of one lemon (2-3 tbsp)
9. 1 tsp salt
10. 1/2 tsp fresh ground black pepper
11. 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
12. 6-8 fresh mint leaves, finely sliced
13. 1/3 cup fresh flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped
14. 1/2 tsp sumac
15. feta cheese and black onlives for garnish

Instructions

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Pour the dressing over the salad and toss lightly. Serve garnished with feta cheese cubes and some black olives.

By Noreen Hiskey

Adapted from PictureTheRecipe.com

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