Steve's Turkish Piyaz Salad

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This week I have been inspired by the post by @carolynstahl 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.

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I'm sure you have probably had Peri Peri sauce? My wife and I often mix Peri Peri sauce and vinegar based dressings together to make marinades for chicken when we grill it. I bet you could do that just as your dressing too. It adds a bit of spice that you would like. This salad looks quite delicious! I'd definitely try it!

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Thanks, it is tasty and give a nice kick. Yes I have eaten peri peri sauce, although not for a long time. It is very nice and spicey! I think it can go well with many different foods. I fancy to try it again now! Thanks for the tip!

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Looks like a great salad my friend, i love a good salad people really need to get more adventurous with them as it can make the best meals, doesn't have to be boring.
I love spicy too have the best one
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May be it will be interesting for you that in Urdu language, national language of Pakistan, piyaz is name of onion.
Then I became surprised to see that you actually added piyaz in it. I am sure that this is super duper healthy as there is tomatoes, cucumber and other healthy things.

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Ah thanks quite interesting. This is really an onion salad, but I added more ingredients to it.

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Ah see this foodie and healthy man is again here to bring water in my mouth 😅.
The salad looks delicious and you made it more with your ingredients

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I love salads. They can arrange any menu with what you have at home, in addition to being healthy. 🤗
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Thanks, they are a great evening meal I think and I try to keep healthy 😀

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when will I get to see unhealthy food :P

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I never eat it LOL

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o.o i want to get you some fast food some red meat lets goo

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i ate lots of Pommes this week, that was quite unhealthy! Plus chocolate!

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O.O i had to google that lol. can't you say french fries :P I've never heard anybody call it like this. Hey you only live once :) who knows when our next day is. chocolate is great too ;3 my favorite is Ferrero rocher but I think u know o.o

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This is the original recipe! 😋 I also make salads with different ingredients. Mostly in winter when I run out of my vegetables.

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They are good to try and spice things up abit. Looking forward to see some of your food posts soon!

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wow hello healthy people. Plus the mayonnaise seems delicious too. but I don't like eating tomatoes directly. I vomit usually

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Sorry to hear that about tomatoes 🍅. I usually love to eat them.

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yes I know it's good. maybe I should get him used to not vomiting

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Looks like there are certain times where you don't love eating tomatoes. 😅

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Not me, I usually eat them all the time.

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Eating them all the time doesn't mean !loving them all the time. 😅

Have some !PIZZA with !LOLZ for today! 😁

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you are right, but it could do..

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Hope you are able to get homegrown, organic vegetables and fruits as much as possible! 🤗

Have some !LOLZ! 😁

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I dont have good access to that sadly. Maybe one day.

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This salad looks good and I love the step to step process you took to make it. Also, having a meat beside the salad won't be bad idea. You may give it a try

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Indonesian taste more like, Chili, onion, and sweet soy sauce for any dressing 😅 but yeah we need to stir-fry the onion first to get strong and nice fragnant. Since Indonesian did not get used to eat raw veggies with raw dressing 😅

I never try and still can not see balsamic on stores. But maybe I will go to internasional market

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Yeah this is more of a raw dressing, I do like the stir fried onion too. 🙂

I am surprised you do not have balsamic there, it is really good to add to salads. I also use it for an Italian style salad. 😀

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That sounds and looks like a super yummy salad, Steve! I understand why you like it! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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Thanks, it is super tasty, especially with hummus.

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Sure thing, you're most welcome! Sounds great! I love hummus too, especially homemade! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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I love middle east food but I have never heard of this one. Black current balsamic!!!! I would love to try that.

I have never been to a Turkish restaurant but now I'm curious.

The lettuces that you used look so inviting. I was at work today and a server asked me to make our noodle salad which comes on a bed of lettuce. She told me to not put the lettuce because she doesn't like it.☹️

Thanks for the mention. I'm eating really late and right before bed. Guten nacht.

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Thanks. It is very tasty and good fun to prepare. I try to have a salad as my evening meal if I have no lunch leftovers.

I am surprised someone would not like lettuce, I love the wild lettuce especially the colours and textures!

The blackcurrant balsamic is very tasty, we have a few choices to buy here. I am also drinking blackcurrant syrup with water!

Guten Nacht!

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This is one if my best salads ahahha I'm glad you've made and liked it 😄

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It's nice to see how you started and finished preparing this veggie. Definitely gonna be delicious.
I also love seeing fresh leaves and more veggies in my meal.

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That looks really good! I also love spicy food. Unfortunately most Japanese, my wife included, do not. But maybe I can make this for myself. I wrote down your recipe for the future.

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Thanks it was pretty tasty. I hope you manage to find something spicey in Japan, I can imagine it could be hard.

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I must say that looks awesome! I'm going to try that out sometime this next week!

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Thanks, it was very tasty! I certainly recommend it.

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