A simple Iranian salad, for summer & winter

Name: A simple Iranian salad, for summer & winter (Salad Shirazi)
Cuisine: Iranian
Ingredients: 2 cucumbers (or 4 Persian/Lebanese cucumbers), about 250 g (9 oz), peeled and diced; ½ large red onion, or 1 small one, diced; 2 small tomatoes, diced; 2 tablespoons lemon or lime juice; 1 teaspoon salt; 1 fennel bulb, trimmed and diced into 1 cm (½ inch) pieces; 1 small red onion, diced; 1½ teaspoons dried mint, or a handful of fresh mint leaves, finely chopped; seeds of ½ pomegranate; ½ teaspoon salt, or to taste; a sprinkling of freshly ground black pepper; 2 tablespoons lime or lemon juice; 1 heaped tablespoon dried mint, or a handful of fresh mint leaves, finely chopped

Salad Shirazi

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pomegranates & Artichokes

By Saghar Setareh

Published 2023

About

This humble salad, together with a bowl of plain yoghurt, is an essential part of an Iranian table, the way I have known it to be. It’s usually the last thing to be prepared before sitting down to eat. By this time the rice is ending its ‘brewing’ time, or maybe the kuku is fried on both sides and somebody is already setting the table. The younger people of the house make the salad, in order to help.

In essence it’s just cucumber, tomato, on