Directions
- 1Slice your onion nice and thin.
- 2Add the sliced onions to a bowl with sumac, cider vinegar, and some salt.
- 3Get your hands in there and start to break the ingredients down.
- 4Let the onions pickle for about half an hour.
- 5Smack the cucumbers using a rolling pin, gently but firmly, to break open the cells.
- 6Coarsely tear away the cucumber with your hands or a knife and put them into a salad bowl.
- 7Add some salt to the cucumbers and tumble them to ensure the salt gets in contact with all the cucumber.
- 8Toast the coriander seeds in a dry pan for 30 seconds until they become fragrant.
- 9Heat about two tablespoons of oil.
- 10Pour the hot oil over some dried mint to help dress the salad.
- 11Pick off some leaves from the radishes.
- 12Slice the radishes nice and thin on a mandolin.
- 13Drain off any excess liquid from the cucumbers that have been sitting in salt for about 20 minutes.
- 14Add the drained cucumbers to a mixing bowl, along with the sliced radishes and some of the radish leaves.
- 15Microplane in one clove of garlic.
- 16Add some lemon zest, toasted coriander seeds, and the pickled onions to the mixing bowl.
- 17Add some fresh mint and dill.
- 18Season with a little bit of salt and pepper.
- 19Add a tablespoon of oil and the juice of half a lemon.
- 20Tumble all the ingredients together.
- 21Mix the salty cucumber water (strained earlier) into your yogurt.
- 22Spread a little bit of the yogurt mixture all around the plate.
- 23Place the crunchy salad on top of the yogurt.
- 24Add a few more coriander seeds over the top.
- 25Finish off with the mint oil.
Ingredients
- onion, sliced nice and thin
- sumac
- cider vinegar
- salt
- cucumbers
- coriander seeds
- 2 tablespoons oil
- dried mint
- radishes
- radish leaves
- 1 garlic clove
- lemon zest
- mint
- dill
- pepper
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 0.5 lemon juice
- yogurt
Equipment
bowlrolling pinknifesalad bowldry panmandolinmixing bowlmicroplaneplate
Tips
- When slicing onion, you want some texture and crunch to it, so do not slice it too thin.
- When smacking cucumbers, gently but firmly break open the cells.
- When slicing radishes with a mandolin, go carefully and slowly.
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