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Turkish Spoon Salad Recipe


Turkish Spoon Salad Recipe
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This "spoon salad" basically combines all the flavours of a gazpacho: cucumbers, onion, beautifully vine-ripened tomatoes, red peppers, chilli, fresh herbs and some Turkish condiments., it's a beautifully versatile dish located somewhere between a sa... More

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Ingredients
  • 2 cups vine-ripened tomatoes
  • ½ red pepper
  • 2 red chillies (finely chopped)
  • 100 g cucumber
  • 1 shallot (finely chopped)
  • 2 tbsp parsley (finely chopped)
  • 1 tbsp mint (finely chopped)
  • ½ tbsp harissa (or to taste)
  • 1 tbsp sherry vinegar
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 cup crushed walnuts
  • 3 tbsp pomegranate molasses
  • 1 tbsp fresh lemon juice

Directions
  1. Peel and Cut tomatoes in half, remove the seeds and dice finely.
  2. Peel and seed the cucumber, cut into fine dice. Combine with the tomatoes, pepper, chillies, shallot and chop and other ingredients all together, until all the vegetables are finely minced. This will allow the flavours to infuse perfectly.
  3. Combine with the remaining ingredients and leave to stand for about 30 minutes. Drain in a sieve to remove any excess juices that have accumulated, season to taste.
  4. Serve as part of a mezze plate or tapas-style dinner, or use as an accompaniment to steak, chicken, BBQ etc

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Very interesting. Will give it a whirl. Thanks for the great post. Five from me.


Wow sounds delicous will print try and save thanks


This sounds fabulous!! love the flavors--seems to be close to taboulli, no? parsley and cous cous and everything above (in your recipe) thank you for posting! a keeper!!


Your welcome ttaaccoo:)taboulli is nice too:)


Oh ttaaccoo by the way tabule is close to turkish kısır..cause they have almost same ingredients ..
but kısır is has more vegitabels and we use tomato paste for kısır ..color is getting red cause of that... and also pomegranate molasses is change everything in kısır:)


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