Tomato + Cucumber + Mint Salad

Name: Tomato + Cucumber + Mint Salad (Shirazi Salad)
Prep time: 25 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: Makes: 4 servings
Cuisine: Iranian
Ingredients: 2 firm ripe tomatoes, peeled and diced*; 3 radishes, sliced; 6 Persian cucumbers,* or 2 long seedless cucumbers, peeled and diced; ½ teaspoon fine sea salt; ¼ teaspoon freshly ground pepper; 2 tablespoons chopped Fresh parsley; 2 tablespoons chopped Fresh mint; 1 tablespoon olive oil; 1 tablespoon Fresh lime juice; 2 tablespoons chopped Fresh cilantro; 1 clove garlic, peeled and grated; 2 tablespoons rice vinegar; 2 spring onions (white and green parts), chopped

Shirazi Salad

Preparation info

Makes:
4
servings

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
25 min

Appears in

Joon

By Najmieh Batmanglij

Published 2015

About

For this renowned salad from Shiraz, the ingredients are traditionally diced very finely and only lime juice—no olive oil—is used in the dressing. It is eaten with everything, much like a salsa. I prefer to dice the ingredients a little larger and add olive oil as well as rice vinegar to the dressing. You can prepare the ingredients and the dressing a little in advance but do not add the dressing until you are ready to serve this salad. For a variation on this salad, popular in the Middle E