How to Make Persian Tomato & Cucumber Salad ( Shirazi Salad)

This is the most common salad served with Persian cuisine. In the summer tomatoes and cucumbers are plentiful and used in many ways, this is a favorite. Often small cucumbers are served on fruit platters and eaten like a piece of fruit with salt.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 3 cucumbers
• 3 tomatoes
• 1 lg. red onion
• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 3 limes or lemons
• 1 tsp. dill weed & mint
• salt & pepper to taste

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   Shirazi Salad

   Peel cucumbers and dice finely set aside while chopping tomatoes into similar size as cucumbers. Cut the red onion as small as you can and add to tomato & cucumber mixture in a bowl and chill.

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   Juice the limes or lemons in a bowl and add the olive oil. Sprinkle the dill weed, salt and pepper into the dressing and whisk just a bit, refrigerate.

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   When you are just about to serve dinner remove vegetables and dressing from refrigerator. Combine the dressing with cucumbers & tomatoes & onions give it a nice toss. Taste for correct amount of seasoning, if satisfied with flavor serve in an attractive salad bowl.

Tips & Warnings

• This is a nice salad to serve for formal dinners, picnics, weddings and casual meals. Very easy to make a day ahead but do not add dressing until serving time. Also this goes well with Mast-O-Khiar: cucumber and yogurt an appetizer.This recipe can be doubled for larger groups.
• Add dressing right before serving otherwise salad will become watery.

[evgnspaces]

on 9/28/2009 Persian tomato and cucumber salad is very good. Thank for the recipe.

[laylamo]

on 8/29/2009 to moonsun55 :
Glad to hear you like this recipe ! Hope I gave you the info you needed on the spice dill weed and mint.
Eve

[moonsun55]

on 8/28/2009 I love this recipe.