Arab salad or Arabic salad is any of a variety of
salad dishes that form part of
Arab cuisine. Combining many different fruits and spices, and often served as part of a
mezze, Arab salads include those from
Libya and
Tunisia such as the "Tunisian salad" and "black olive and orange salad" (salatat zaytoon) and from
Tunisiasalata machwiya is a grilled salad made from peppers, tomatoes, garlic and onions with olives and tuna on top, those from
Syria and
Lebanon such as "artichoke salad" (salataf khurshoof) and "beet salad" (salatat shamandar), and those from
Palestine and
Jordan.[1] Other popular Arab salads eaten throughout the
Arab world include
fattoush and
tabouli.[2][3]
A recipe for Arab salad in Woman's Day magazine includes diced
tomato,
cucumber and
onion.[4] Often mixed with parsley and combined with the juice of freshly squeezed lemon and olive oil, Arabic salad contains no
lettuce. All the vegetables, except the onion, are left unpeeled, and the salad should be served immediately. Other variations include serving with fried
pita slices or adding
sumac to the lemon and oil dressing.[5] Among
Palestinians, this Arabic salad is known as Salatat al-Bundura ("tomato salad") and is popularly served alongside rice dishes.[6][7]
Salloum, Habeeb; Peters, James; Cassidy, Neal (1997), From the Lands of Figs and Olives: Over 300 Delicious and Unusual Recipes from the Middle East and North Africa (Illustrated ed.), I.B.Tauris,
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