My favorite summertime salad is Salad Shirazi. This salad is a Persian favorite; it's from the city of Shiraz. It's very simple and healthy. It will complement any meal!

Supplies

Peeler

Knife

Juicer

Bowl

Ingredients:

1 large Tomato chopped, (I happened to use a bunch of cherry tomatoes, but any will do.)

1 Cucumber

1/2 Red Onion

Juice of one or 2 Limes (1/4 cup)

Salt and Pepper

1 Tablespoon Olive Oil *

1 teaspoon of dried Mint *

*These are optional

Step 1: Peel the Cucumber

Peel the cucumbers. How many you use is dependent on how much you want to make. I usually use one large one for 4 people for a side dish for our meal. (Or you could use several smaller Persian cucumbers, the ones with out many seeds.)

Step 2: Dice Cucumber

You will be chopping up the cucumber into tiny pieces, about 1/4" size. Some people like to remove the seeds first, (they don't bother me, so I didn't). You can do this by slicing the cucumber in half lengthways, then use a spoon to scrape out the seeds (and throw them away), then chop up the rest.

Step 3: Chop Tomatoes

I happened to have cherry tomatoes on hand, but you can use any tomatoes. Just chop up the tomatoes to about the same size as the cucumber bits

Step 4: Chop Red Onion

Chop your red onion. (Actually you can use any onion, but the red onion makes it really pretty!) How much you use depends on how much you like onion, but you don't want it to over power the salad!