If you want a simple side dish or salad, here is the yummy, flavorful, quick Persian Shirazi salad to add to your menu next time. It takes less than 10 minutes to prepare and requires no fancy dressing.
What is Shirazi salad?
Shirazi salad is an easy Persian cucumber and tomato salad with herb seasoning and a drizzle of olive oil. This salad is named after a city in Iran and is quite popular on Iranian tables. It resembles Greek salad or Indian cucumber salad, but Shirazi salad is more of a herby flavor.
Making this salad is easy. It takes less than 10 minutes to make this healthy, juicy salad. You also don't need fancy ingredients to make this simple cucumber-tomato salad. Check out my other cucumber salad with corn.
Like many Mediterranean foods, it requires a drizzle of olive oil and lime juice to make it juicy, tangy, and flavorful. Dried mint adds a herby flavor to the salad. However, add chopped fresh mint leaves if you cannot find dried mint.
Ingredients You'll Need
Cucumber, tomatoes, red onion, fresh mint leaves or dried mint, cilantro or parsley
Extra virgin olive oil, lime juice, salt, and black pepper
Instructions
Dice cucumber, tomatoes, and onion into bite-sized pieces. Add the chopped veggies to a large mixing bowl. Then, add salt and crushed pepper to taste. Drizzle olive oil and lime juice into the bowl. Now add dried or finely chopped fresh mint leaves (and any other herbs of preference). Lastly, give them a toss to mix everything well. Juicy, crunchy, healthy cucumber salad is ready to serve.
What To Serve With Shirazi Salad?
Shirazi salad is one of the best sides, and it can add magic to any menu or table. This simple cucumber salad has the perfect blend of flavors you will love. Though it goes with any meal, here are a few suggestions for pairing it.
Baked potatoes and sweet potatoes
Tomato soup, zucchini soup, and cauliflower soup
Pasta primavera and Lemon garlic pasta
any of the sandwiches you love (e.g., spinach corn sandwich)
or use it as a topping for the bruschetta
curried lentil and rice combo
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Shirazi Salad
Equipment
- 1 Knife
Ingredients
- 2 med English Cucumber diced into bite sized
- 2 - 3 Roma tomatoes diced into bite size
- 1 medium red onion finely chopped
- ยผ cup olive oil
- 1 large lemon 3 - 4 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp salt or as per taste
- ยฝ tsp black pepper powder
- 1 tsp dried mint or a handful of fresh mint leaves
- 2 tbsp cilantro leaves optional
Instructions
- Wash and clean the cucumber. No need to peel off the skin.
- Dice them into bite-size pieces.
- Dice the tomatoes, onion into bite-size pieces or fine chop them.
- Chop mint leaves (if using fresh mint) and cilantro leaves finely.
- Transfer all chopped veggies to a mixing bowl.
- Drizzle olive oil and squeeze out lemon juice into the bowl.
- Season with dried mint, salt, and crushed black pepper to taste.
- Now toss everything and yummy salad is ready.
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