Turkish Chopped Salad, Yoghurt and Chilli Butter

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Samantha Clark and Samuel Clark

Published 2014

  • About

Chopped salad is a classic recipe from Mangal, our favourite Ocakbasi Turkish restaurant in Dalston. It is fantastic with Lamb Chops Mechoui. We have recently added a few chopped pickles to the salad to give it extra zing.

Ingredients

Chopped Salad

  • ½ cucumber, half peeled in strips, deseeded and finely diced
  • 6 radishes, halved and thinly sliced
  • 1 small red oni

Method

For the chilli butter, melt the butter in a small saucepan over a medium heat. When the whey evaporates and the butter turns golden brown, it has caramelised. Remove and stir in the chilli flakes or cayenne. Keep warm.

Just before serving, place all the vegetables, herbs and salad leaves in a bowl, add the oil and lemon juice, season with salt and pepper and toss well. Mix the yoghurt w