This recipe is inspired by my friend, Paiyz, and her creatively appetizing salads. Shirazi Salad with green pepper & apple is a great lunch. Serve it with Pita bread, hummus or feta cheese.
Shirazi means from Shiraz: a city located in southwest Iran, where, among many of its attractions, Shiraz wine is originated. Depending on where one is from, I guess, Shirazi Salad changes its name to Israeli Salad. Also there is a Greek version of this salad. The trick for a good Shirazi salad is in its finely chopped vegetables. But for this recipe I like to chop the greens a little bit larger than usual.
(4-6 Servings)
Ingredients:
1 Green Apple: chopped. To prevent discoloring: put the chopped apples in a plastic bag and add some lemon juice to it. Mix well and let it stay for about 1 min. (I like green apple for this salad because of its sourness. But you can use any kind you like.) Do Not Peel the apple!
3 Cucumbers: average size or 1 and a half if it is large: peeled and chopped. (If I use organic cucumber, I either don’t peal or I peel the cucumber in stripes.)
3 Tomatoes: average size, chopped the juicier the tomato is the better the salad becomes.
1 Green Pepper: chopped
½ Onion: average size, finely chopped (optional)
Spices:
1 tbs. Olive Oil
1 tbs. Lemon Juice
½ tsp. Lime Juice: (optional)
1 to 2 tbs. Dried Mint: (you can replace it with 2 tbs. of finely chopped fresh mint)
A dash of Salt and Black Pepper
Directions:
1- Mix the chopped vegetables: Apple, Tomato, Cucumber and Green pepper. Note: if you don’t want discolored apples use the lemon juice trick. Let the mixture stay for about 15 minutes; the tomato’s juice can get into the other ingredients. After that you can add the onion.
2- Add the spices before serving and mix well.
Shirazi means from Shiraz: a city located in southwest Iran, where, among many of its attractions, Shiraz wine is originated. Depending on where one is from, I guess, Shirazi Salad changes its name to Israeli Salad. Also there is a Greek version of this salad. The trick for a good Shirazi salad is in its finely chopped vegetables. But for this recipe I like to chop the greens a little bit larger than usual.(4-6 Servings)
Ingredients:
1 Green Apple: chopped. To prevent discoloring: put the chopped apples in a plastic bag and add some lemon juice to it. Mix well and let it stay for about 1 min. (I like green apple for this salad because of its sourness. But you can use any kind you like.) Do Not Peel the apple!
3 Cucumbers: average size or 1 and a half if it is large: peeled and chopped. (If I use organic cucumber, I either don’t peal or I peel the cucumber in stripes.)
3 Tomatoes: average size, chopped the juicier the tomato is the better the salad becomes.
1 Green Pepper: chopped
½ Onion: average size, finely chopped (optional)
Spices:
1 tbs. Olive Oil
1 tbs. Lemon Juice
½ tsp. Lime Juice: (optional)
1 to 2 tbs. Dried Mint: (you can replace it with 2 tbs. of finely chopped fresh mint)
A dash of Salt and Black Pepper
Directions:
1- Mix the chopped vegetables: Apple, Tomato, Cucumber and Green pepper. Note: if you don’t want discolored apples use the lemon juice trick. Let the mixture stay for about 15 minutes; the tomato’s juice can get into the other ingredients. After that you can add the onion.
2- Add the spices before serving and mix well.
نوش جان
(Noushe Jan)
Bon Appetit!
(Noushe Jan)
Bon Appetit!
3 comments:
The first time i had apple in a salad was in a fancy restaurant and i was wondering what could this tasty vegetable in there be:)))
is there something wrong with the skin, if the cucumber is not organic?
Dearest Jeerjeerak
Apple truly richens the taste of the salad. I am mainly suggesting to peel the non-organic cucumbers because their skin is generally ticker than the organic ones and it doesn't taste right.
Although I have heard rumors about the skin's of non-organic fruits; they are waxed to look good and the wax is not healthy, I am not sure how much of these rumors are true.
you're right, the skins are thick. I thought something else was wrong with it! In San Jose i had found this Indian grocery store that had "persian" cucumbers, exactly like the ones in Iran. They were GREAT. Half the fun of a cucumber is biting into it with the skin on;)
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