While preparing for a shopping trip to purchase ingredients to create a Shabbat meal, I was searching online for a few new salad recipes.
My eye caught a picture of an Israeli chopped salad recipe that I thought looked appetising. Although we have made this kind of salad more times than we can count, we decided that it would be a good fit to the rest of our menu. I made my shopping list and off we went to the shops.
We purchased everything we needed and when Thursday arrived (which is normally our preparation day for larger Shabbat meals) we started our preparation.
As we started preparing the salad we decided that we didn’t want to follow the recipe anymore and made our own version of the chopped salad.
So this is what we ended up with and believe me it was very tasty and so beautiful that it is definitely going to be a new favourite.
What you need
- An assortment of different colour bell peppers (We don’t use green pepper as much as they have a more bitter taste.)
- Red onions
- Fresh coriander
- Fresh parsley
What you need for the dressing
Olive oil
Lemon juice
Salt and pepper
Za’atar
Za’atar is a spice that we buy in Israel, which I am not sure if you are able to buy it in your home country. If not come and visit us and we will show you where to purchase it at the Jewish market.
Cut the bell peppers in nice big pieces – we wanted a chunky salad so our pieces were about 1.5-2cm by 1.5-2cm.
Cut the red onions in thin slices.
Roughly chop the coriander and parsley – we used a whole lot of fresh herbs to advance the taste of the salad.
Mix the olive oil, lemon juice, salt, pepper and za’atar together until they are well combined. Za’atar is spice blend popular in Israel made of hyssop, sumac, sesame and salt.
Once all the ingredients of the salad is nicely mixed add the dressing – we added our dressing just before we served the salad.
