This popular Iranian salad with a combination of cucumbers tomatoes and onions is refreshing simple and quick to make.
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Shirazi salad 🥗
Serious Mealtimes / Nader Mehravari
Although Persian cuisine is full of appetizers side dishes and side dishes there aren’t many that can be classified as salads. The three most popular salads among Persians are sālād-é-shirāzi (tomato and cucumber salad) sālād-é-olevieh (which is of Russian origin and falls somewhere between modern-day chicken potato and egg salads) and sālād-é-fassl (a seasonal fresh green salad often topped with a bit of cooked ingredient like pinto beans or beets).
Sālād-é-shirāzi is often referred to as the unofficial national salad of Iran mainly due to its popularity but also because the primary colors green (from cucumber) white (from onion) and red (from tomato) are the three primary colors of the flag of Iran. Sālād-é-shirāzi takes its name from the southern Iranian city of Shirāz which is known as the city of flowers literature and poets of Iran. The main ingredients of this refreshing salad are cucumbers tomatoes and onions tossed with a simple vinaigrette of olive oil an acidic ingredient (usually verjuice although vinegar lime or lemon juice can also be used) plus salt and pepper. It has a pleasant salty sour flavor with a crunchy bite from the onion and cucumber and a welcome juicy finish from the tomato.
