Turkish Salad Recipe

Simple Salad Recipe for Turkish Salad 

Turkish salad dressing is delicious and easy to make. Serve this salad with shish or doner kebabs, panfried chicken or steak, the list is endless.

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*Post updated January 2024

Liven up meals with this easy, vibrant and delicious salad. Turkish salad, also known as Coban salad (Çoban Salatası). Go all fancy and make a Turkish salad for your next BBQ!

What is a traditional meze?

Mezze is a selection of small savoury dishes that are usually served alongside drinks. A variety of cold or hot small dishes that usually include meat, cheese, olives, dips, bread and vegetables.

Is it mezze or meze?

Mezze ('zz') or meze(one 'z')  in Greece - known as tapas in Spain and antipasti in Italy.

Additions to Turkish salad can include feta

Ingredients - Turkish salad dressing

• extra virgin olive oil

• cider vinegar

• pomegranate molasses - tart, tangy and sweet at the same time 😋

• red pepper flakes

• lemon - juice only 

• sea salt 

A quick word on red pepper flakes

Red pepper flakes are made with different varieties of peppers, and they are sweet in taste. Chilli flakes are hot since they are made only from chilli peppers.

Ingredients - Turkish salad

• baby tomatoes 

• cucumber

• green bell pepper

• 1-2 green chilli peppers - of course, you can leave these out altogether if you don't like heat 

• red onion 

• fresh parsley

• sumac - don't be tempted to leave this out, it is delicious!

• olives - optional

Gather and prepare your ingredients

Put the diced onion into a medium-sized bowl and sprinkle it with the sumac - this will tone down the harshness of the raw onion.

Add the rest of the salad ingredients to the bowl along with the salad dressing and mix everything together. 

Try to leave for at least 15 minutes before serving. if you can.

This salad would go well served alongside my Chicken Shish Kebabs.

Leaving any salad with a dressing for a little while before serving gives it time for the flavours to develop.

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Yield: 4

Author: Jan Bennett

Turkish Salad Recipe

Easy to make, ready in minutes although it's even better if left for 15 minutes to allow the flavours to develop.

Prep time: 5 MinTotal time: 5 Min

Ingredients

Salad ingredients

• 1 red onion - cut into small dice
• 8-10 baby tomatoes - halved or quartered depending on their size
• ½ of an English cucumber (hot house, I believe they're called if you are in the US) - deseeded and cut into small dice
• 1 green bell pepper - deseeded and cut into small dice
• 1-2 green chilli peppers medium heat (optional) - deseeded and thinly sliced
• a small handful of fresh parsley
• 2 teaspoons sumac
• olives - optional

For the dressing

• 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• 1 tbsp cider vinegar
• 1 teaspoon pomegranate molasses
• ½ teaspoon red pepper flakes
• ½ of a lemon juice only - to taste
• sea salt to taste
• Put the dressing ingredients into a small bowl and mix well - taste and adjust the seasoning - you might want to add a little more salt or lemon.

Instructions

Gather and prepare your ingredients

1. Put the diced onion into a medium-sized bowl and sprinkle them with the sumac - this will tone down the harshness of the raw onion.
2. Now, add the rest of the salad ingredients to the bowl along with the salad dressing and mix everything together.
3. Try to leave for at least 15 minutes before serving - this will allow the flavours to develop.

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