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Lebanese Salad (Salata)
My traditional Lebanese Salad (salata) is a crisp salad of romaine, cucumbers, onion, and tomato with a garlicky, lemony vinaigrette.Mouthwatering! We eat this one almost every day.
- Prep time
- 15 min
- Cook time
- 11 min
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 8 cups coarsely chopped romaine lettuce
- 1 large tomato, coarsely diced, or 1 pint cherry or grape tomatoes, halved
- 2 Persian cucumbers, cut in wedges
- 1/2 small red onion or vidalia onion, thinly sliced
- 10 leaves fresh mint, chopped
- 1 large clove garlic, minced
- Juice of 1 lemon
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- Few grinds black pepper
- 1 teaspoon dried mint
- 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
Instructions
- 1
In a large salad bowl, combine the lettuce, tomato, cucumbers, onion, and fresh mint.
- 2
In a small bowl, whisk the garlic, lemon juice, salt, pepper, dried mint, and olive oil until combined and emulsified. Pour over the salad, toss to coat evenly, and serve.