FOODS OF TURKEY
Colorful, easy to make and delicious! This salad is a staple in every restaurant, with fish, lamb or any other meal about to served, and is always a winner at the table. For shepherd’s salad (Çoban Salatası), all you need is small cubes of fresh ingredients mixed in to create its delightful smells and tastes.
First chop the onions, tomatoes and cucumbers into small cubes. Then add chopped up parsley leaves and the green pepper into the mix. On the side, whisk together the olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper. Add a generous amount of the sauce into the mix of vegetables and stir with a spoon. Your salad is now ready to serve.
In my family, we all like dunking a piece of crusty bread into the juice of this salad whenever my mom prepares it. For everyone’s enjoyment, make sure your salad has its natural juices for dunking at the bottom.
Variations to the recipe are excluding the green pepper if you have a sensitive stomach, or adding seeded and chopped black olives and/or cubed feta cheese into the salad. You may also add sour pomegranate juice into the dressing. This salad, if prepared with small, diced vegetables and some sour pomegranate juice is also known as “Spoon Salad”.
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Recipe: Shepherd’s Salad
Aug 27, 2009
Shepherd’s salad is made from whatever the shepherd has available and fresh, so its ingredients may vary. Serve it with a delicious fish, freshly grilled or a bean stew, and perhaps along with a glass of wine, or a “kadeh” (glass) of rakı- a traditional Turkish drink. It doesn’t matter what you serve it with, we hope you eat it with good company.
Ingredients:
Diced tomatoes (2 cups)
Diced onions (1 cup)
Diced cucumbers (1 cup)
(preferably seedless)
Thin, long green pepper (1)
Bunch of parsley leaves
Extra virgin olive oil (1/2 cup)
Lemon juice (of 1 lemon)
Salt to taste
Ground black pepper
