Hello V-Gang!,
This week I have been inspired by the post by 
where she shared a tasty salad that she made. I thought I would share you one of my staple go-to salads that I am eating quite often at the moment.
We have lots of local Turkish restaurants here and something that I look out for when passing is how well they present their salads, as the care they take on their salad, is a good sign of how well the food might be there imo. But I am also looking for salad ideas and some ways to spice up my own.
As I really like spicey food, the Piyaz salad that you find in Turkish restaurants really inspired me as I like a spicey and tasty salad. Normally, they would just be a side salad with red onion and tomato which is really good and I have made that a few times. However, I have adapted it for a larger salad dish and a full meal, but keeping to the original spirit of it.
I eat alot of salad as I need to keep a strict diet and this one is a good one to fill you up and give your taste buds a kick!
As usual I grabbed the ingredients that I intend to use first so that I am ready and prepared.
You can make this with also regular lettuce, but I like to have some wild leaves and the field lettuce gives it that crunchy taste too!
My ingredients are (to serve 1):
- 1/2 Medium-Sized Red Onion
- 1/5 of Regular-Sized Cucumber
- 2 Regular-Sized Plum Tomatoes
- Large Handful of Wild Lettuce Leaves
- Large Handful of Field Lettuce Leaves
- Fresh Coriander To Taste
Optional:
- Hummus To Taste
- Ajvar To Taste
Onion Seasoning:
- 1 Teaspoon Maple Syrup
- 1 Large Sprinkling of Sea Salt
- A Few Grinds of Fresh Pepper
- Blackcurrant Flavored Balsamic Dressing (Any flavor is fine)
- 1/4 Teaspoon Cayenne Pepper
First job is to chop the onion and put in a bowl for mixing with the spices.
Then add the pepper.
Then the hot spicey Cayenne Pepper. If you like it hot like me, add a little extra in! 😀
Next I add a generous helping of sea salt.
I have some blackcurrant flavored balsamic that my wife bought in Poland. In it goes a nice generous helping.
To counter the spicey kick, I add in some maple syrup to also help bind everything.
It's looking good and time to mix it all up.
This looks nicely mixed and will give the salad a good kick.
Next I prepare the base layer of the salad with lettuce leaves.
First in goes the field salad which gives it that nutty, crunchy texture.
Then I add the wild lettuce leaves on top which look and taste great.
I peel and chop some cucumber and add it to the lettuce.
It's time for the plum tomatoes, they are a key ingredient. I slice them first.
Before slicing them in half so that they can be grabbed with your fork easily.
It is time to add the tomatoes and then the onions to the salad.
My favorite ingredient is of course coriander. I just love it and can't get enough.
I take a handful, remove the leaves and then I am ready for chopping.
I like quite a lot of coriander, you can adjust to taste.
Sprinkling on the coriander and the salad is complete. You can then add some condiments as desired.
I added a large helping of hummus. Here is the plain hummus, but you can also get many varieties which can really spice up your salad. I will share my home made hummus in another post.
The other option that I like is Ajvar, which is a pepper condiment or relish that I have eaten alot when in Croatia. It goes well with salad and fresh bread.
Bon Apetit!
Thanks for checking out my recipe.
My other recipes:
Steve's Veggie Balti
Zoodles!
Tikka Massala
Stuffed Peppers with a Homemade Tomato Sauce and Broccoli
Zucchini with Garlic Zucchini Fried Rice
Introducing the C.L.T.
Vegan Aubergine di Parmigiana
Vegan Homemade Quesadilla with Guacamole
Vegan English Breakfast
Homemade Vegan Bigos - My First Polish Dish
Vegan Spanish Style Chilli
Vegan Cauliflower Curry
Fusilli Bolognese ala Vegan - Glutenfree Edition
A Twist on a German Classic!
Mushroom Curry made with love and leftover ingredients
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