Name: Shepherds’ Salad (Çoban salatası)
Yield: Serves 2-3
Cuisine: Turkish
Ingredients: 3-4 cloves garlic, roughly chopped; 2 hot green peppers or 1 green chilli, finely sliced; 2 tablespoons olive oil; 2 tablespoons lemon juice; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 2 big tomatoes, skinned and chopped; 1 big red onion, halved and sliced; big bunch of fresh parsley, roughly chopped; 1 small cucumber, peeled, halved lengthways and chopped

Preparation info

Serves
2-3

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Classic Turkish Cooking

By Ghillie Basan

Published 1995

About

A salad made from ingredients available in every Turkish home or garden. It contains lots of flat-leaf parsley the only sort to be found in Turkey and can be served with practically everything.

Ingredients

1 small cucumber, peeled, halved lengthways and chopped
1 big red onion, halved and sliced
2 big tomatoes, skinned and chopp

Method

If the cucumber is bitter, sprinkle with a little salt and leave to stand for 5 minutes. Rinse well and drain. Mix the first six ingredients in a bowl, toss in the olive oil and lemon juice and season with the salt and pepper.