This salad with bulgur and vegetables, like all Mediterranean dishes, is healthy, light, bright and aromatic.
It can be an independent dish, or it can be a side dish for the main dish.
Ingredients (for 2 servings):
- Tomatoes – 1 pc.
- Cucumber – 1 pc.
- Bulgur – 4 tbsp. of ready-made cereals
- Feta cheese – 50 gr.
- White salad (or red) onion – 1/4 small onion
- Olives – 50 gr.
- Preserved lemons – 1 teaspoon finely chopped or lemon zest and lemon juice
- Fresh mint leaves – 1 tbsp
- Olive oil – 3-4 tbsp.
- Ground black pepper
Cooking process
1 First of all, let’s cook bulgur. Follow the instructions on the cereal packaging. Ready bulgur must be completely cooled before adding to the salad.
2 Wash the tomatoes and cucumbers and cut them into small to medium sized pieces.
Cut the feta cheese into cubes.
Cut the white salad onions into thin half rings. If you add common onions or red onions, then it is better to pre-marinate them in lemon juice for 5 minutes. Thus, excess bitterness will go away from the onion.
Cut the preserved lemons into small cubes. Instead, you can add 0.5 tsp of lemon peel grated on a fine grater.
3 Put all prepared ingredients on a plate and mix gently.
4 Making a salad dressing. Mix olive oil with finely chopped mint leaves. If you added lemon zest to the salad, and not preserved (salted) lemons, then add a spoonful of lemon juice to the dressing.
Pour the salad with the resulting dressing. Mix gently. Sprinkle with freshly ground black pepper on top. Salad can not salt as feta cheese salty enough.
Preserved lemons can be made using this recipe https://takajaeda.com/en/recipes-en/preserved-lemons/
Other recipes for delicious salads:
Tabbouleh salad https://takajaeda.com/en/recipes-en/tabbouleh-salad/
Salad with cilantro and tomatoes https://takajaeda.com/en/recipes-en/salad-with-cilantro-and-tomatoes/
Salad with couscous, feta and vegetables https://takajaeda.com/en/recipes-en/salad-with-couscous-feta-and-vegetables/