Salad Shirazi – Shirazi Cucumber, Tomato and Onion Salad
Salad Shirazi, as the same suggests, comes from Shiraz and it’s the most popular salad in Iran. It consists of finely chopped cucumbers, tomatoes and red onions, dressed with verjuice (or lemon juice as as alternative) and seasoned with dried mint and salt.
The fine texture makes Salad Shirazi satisfying to eat and allows all the flavours to mingle in your mouth for an explosion of taste and freshness.
The main ingredient for the dressing for Salad Shirazi is abghooreh. Abghooreh means sour grape juice, known as verjuice in English. It’s made of the juice of unripe and unfermented grapes and has a bright, sour flavour.
You can find abghooreh/verjuice in Turkish or Middle Eastern shops. If you can’t get your hands on it, you can substitute it with lemon juice. The sourness of verjuice is much more subtle than that of lemon juice, which is why you might want to use less lemon juice, than the amount of verjuice the recipe calls for.
Among other popular Persian dishes, it is also included in my Classic Persian Recipes E-Book.
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