Peanut butter salad

Name: Peanut butter salad (Salata Dakwa)
Yield: Serves 2
Cuisine: Ethiopian
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons water; 200 g (7 oz) mixed leaf salad, finely shredded; 2 tomatoes, diced into 1 cm (½ inch) cubes; ½ green chilli, deseeded and finely chopped; juice of 1 lemon; 1½ tablespoons smooth peanut butter; 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil; 1 cucumber, peeled or skin on, diced into 1 cm (½ inch) cubes

Salata Dakwa

Preparation info

Serves
2

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Tekebash & Saba

By Saba Alemayoh

Published 2023

About

This is great to complement spicy dishes due to the creamy nature of the peanut butter. I also like to add hardboiled eggs and have it as a salad in its own right.

Ingredients

Salad

2 tomatoes, diced into 1 cm (½ inch) cubes
1 cucumber, peeled or skin on, diced into 1 cm (½ inch) cubes
200 g

Africa
Ethiopia
Spicy
Gluten-free
Vegan

Method

Place all the dressing ingredients in a bowl and mix until you achieve a mayonnaise-like consistency. Season with salt.

Combine the salad ingredients, add the dressing and mix well to serve.