Mediterranean Salad
"I love creating salads and this is one of my latest discoveries. It has a lot of traditional mediterranean ingredients and is very healthy for you as well as colourful and easy to make. It serves two as a main dish or more if you're making it as a side to a bigger meal."
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- Ready In:
- 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
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2-4
ingredients
- 4 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 red pepper, thinly sliced
- 1 green pepper, thinly sliced
- 1 yellow pepper, thinly sliced
- 1 (400 g) can chickpeas, drained
- 1 (400 g) can artichoke hearts, drained
- 1 small avocado, peeled and sliced
- 6 sun-dried tomatoes packed in oil, drained and chopped
- 2 tablespoons za'atar spice mix
- 4 tablespoons chopped parsley
- 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
- salt and pepper, to taste
directions
- Put half the olive oil in a frying pan and sauté the sliced peppers for 3-5 minutes until the skins start to blister and the peppers soften.
- Take off the heat and leave to cool slightly for a few minutes.
- Meanwhile, put the chickpeas, artichoke hearts, avocado and tomatoes in a large bowl.
- When the peppers have cooled slightly, add them to the other ingredients in the bowl.
- Sprinkle over the Zaatar seasoning, or make a reasonable substitute by combining thyme, marjoram, and sesame seeds with a bit of salt.
- Make the dressing by mixing up the other half of the olive oil and balsamic vinegar.
- Pour the dressing over the salad and mix well.
- Season with salt and pepper and sprinkle with the parsley.
- Serve either at room temperature or chilled.
- If you are making this ahead of time, leave out the avocados until just before serving or they will discolour.
- You can also spice up this salad by using a chilli-infused olive oil.
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Reviews
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This was such a flavorful salad. I made it according to the recipe except I cut the recipe in half and didn't use green peppers only because my friend doesn't like the green ones. Made this early in the morning to bring for lunch then added the avocado at lunchtime. The flavor of the balsamic dressing was really good with this salad. I had put the Za'aar seasoning,salt and pepper in with the oil and balsamic to mix all together then blended it in with the salad. So yummy and will be making this again. Made with Shish Taouk Recipe #66035 Thanks so much for sharing your recipe Sackville..We loved it and I will be making this again. -
I've had this in my cookbook for ages, but never made it because I didn't have Zatar seasoning. I finally found some though and made this salad. We really enjoyed it. Colorful, healthy, flavorful and easy!! As with every recipe I make that has a "add ______ just before serving," I forgot to add the avocado! I did prepare this a couple hours ahead of time adding everything but the avocado. It smelled wonderful!! I also ended up roughly dicing the peppers after sauteing them. I just wanted everything to be about the same size. Thanks for posting this, I'll be making this one frequently. -
This is really, really good stuff. I mean really good! I didn't have the spice, so I used 1 tsp marjoram and thyme, 1 tbsp sesame. I also replaced the avocado with an english cucumber. Absolutely wonderful. Served with spinach pie. -
Oh Friedel, we really enjoyed this as a main dish salad. I cooked up all the capsicum and let it sit with the other ingredients until we were ready. The contrast of textures, colours, made it truly wonderful. Thanks again for sending the za'atar, I'll have to work on the substitute now because this is a definite make again. I too forgot the parsley, but it was still so flavoursome without. Next time I will add more artichokes as I accidentally bought too small a jar! -
This is an outstanding salad that is rich and full of exciting flavors that make a superb accompaniment to a Middle Eastern or mediterranean type meal. I served this with Chicken ala Turk, recipe 74351, and used this as a side salad. I think the ingredients could easily be adjusted to taste among the artichokes, peppers, chickpeas, and avocado. Roasted chicken would also be an interesting addition to this, I think, to make this a main dish salad. You might just need to add a little bit more dressing. I realized after the dinner was over that I had forgotten to add the parsley to this, and that would have added yet another dimension of flavor to an already fantastic salad, although it tasted great as it was. I am definitely going to be making this again! Thanks, SG!
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This is really, really good stuff. I mean really good! I didn't have the spice, so I used 1 tsp marjoram and thyme, 1 tbsp sesame. I also replaced the avocado with an english cucumber. Absolutely wonderful. Served with spinach pie.
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