Middle Eastern Salad

This Middle Eastern Salad is part of our daily fare. It is delicious and healthy and goes with any dish on earth, a “passe-partout“  salad that makes a great addition to barbecues, pilafs, mujadara, stews, hummus, dips or even with any heavy main dish your heart desire.  The veggies are classics used in all cuisines of the world – juicy tomatoes, crisp cucumbers, sliced onions, roughly chopped romaine lettuce, and red cabbage!  The extra ordianry flavors come from the outstanding dressing ingredients; this Middle Eastern salad is  dressed with olive oil, sumac, pomegranate molasses and a splash of freshly squeezed lemon juice! It is incredibly healthy and full of flavor!

• Just a small trick that takes the salad to another level of flavor – grind together the mint leaves and garlic with a mortar and pestle. If you are lucky enough to have fresh mint leaves from your garden then this salad is a must on your table!!
• If cooking Lebanese keep a bottle of pomegranate molasses in your pantry, it is handy for adding flavors to lots of dishes.

Pomegranate Molasses, sumac, lemon juice and olive oil bind together to create a delicious dressing!!

Middle Eastern Salad

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Servings 6

Course

SALADS

Cuisine

#Middle Eastern

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Lebanese

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This Middle Eastern Salad is part of our daily fare. It is delicious and healthy and goes with any dish on earth, a "passe-partout"  salad that makes a great addition to barbecues, pilafs, mujadara, stews, hummus, dips or even with any heavy main dish your heart desire. 

Ingredients

 

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• ▢ 5 tomatoes sliced into discs
• ▢ 3 medium-sized cucumbers sliced into discs
• ▢ 6 romaine lettuce leaves shredded
• ▢ 2 red cabbage leaves shredded, optional
• ▢ ¼ cup parsley finely chopped
• ▢ 2 radishes cut into discs
• ▢ 6 fresh mint leaves
• ▢ 1 onion sliced into discs

Dressing:

• ▢ 1 tablespoon pomegranate molasses
• ▢ ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
• ▢ 3 garlic cloves crushed
• ▢ A juice of a freshly-squeezed lemon juice
• ▢ Salt to taste
• ▢ A dash of sumac

Instructions

 

• Add the mint leaves to the garlic and grind, with a mortar and pestle, until you have a creamy texture.
• Add the tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, parsley, onions, and radishes to the garlic and mint paste.
• Add the olive oil, lemon juice, sumac, salt, and pomegranate molasses to the mix.
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• You might also enjoy ourTabbouleh, Fattoush, Potato, Green Bean and Avocado Salad, Freekeh Hallouli and Pomegranate Salad

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