Salad with mint-citrus dressing
2 servings
10 minutes
Mint-citrus dressing salad is a refreshing and aromatic recipe from Turkish cuisine that brings a harmonious blend of sweet, sour, and spicy flavors. This salad embodies freshness where grapefruit provides juiciness, mint refreshes, and narsharab adds a delicate tang. Its light yet rich taste is perfect for summer menus or as a refreshing side to meat dishes. Olive oil, lemon juice, and spices unite the components into a delicate, zesty composition that awakens the appetite and invigorates. Such a salad is served in Turkey as part of meze—a traditional assortment of appetizers designed to highlight the richness of national cuisine flavors. An ideal treat for those who appreciate the balance of freshness and depth of flavor.
1
Pour the salad mix 'Afisha-Food' into a bowl.
- Mixed salad greens blend: 1 piece
2
Combine mint leaves, sugar, juice of one lemon, three-quarters of the olive oil reserved for this salad, and narsharab sauce in a blender, season with salt and pepper, and blend into a green paste. Finely chop the red onion and mix it with grapefruit pieces and mint sauce.
- Fresh mint: 25 g
- Cane sugar: 10 g
- Lemon: 0.5 piece
- Olive oil: 25 ml
- Narsharab (pomegranate sauce): 10 ml
- Salt: to taste
- Ground black pepper: to taste
- Red onion: 25 g
- Grapefruits: 1 piece
3
Mix the prepared dressing with salad leaves, drizzle with olive oil, and season with salt and pepper.
- Olive oil: 25 ml
- Salt: to taste
- Ground black pepper: to taste
