Eggless Turkish Shepherd's Salad

Total time15 min

Prep time15 min

Cook time0 min

4.5

(18)

This vibrant chopped salad is a staple of Turkish home cooking, and once you taste it, you'll understand why it shows up on tables at nearly every meal. Juicy ripe tomatoes, cool cucumber, crisp green bell pepper, and sharp red onion come together in a bowl that somehow manages to be both refreshing and deeply satisfying. The real magic is in the dressing — just good extra-virgin olive oil, bright lemon juice, and a pinch of sumac, that tangy reddish spice that gives the whole thing a subtle citrusy depth you won't get from anything else. Fresh parsley ties it all together, and a handful of mint stirred in at the end adds an optional but genuinely lovely lift. Every single ingredient here is naturally free of eggs, so there's no need to swap anything out or read labels with suspicion — it's just clean, honest produce and pantry staples doing their job beautifully. Serve it immediately after tossing so the vegetables hold their crunch and the juices stay bright rather than pooling at the bottom.

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Ingredients

4 servings

4 medium ripe tomatoes, seeded and cut into ¼-inch dice
2 persian cucumbers (or 1 english cucumber), cut into ¼-inch dice
1 green bell pepper, seeded and cut into ¼-inch dice
½ small red onion, finely diced
½ cup fresh flat-leaf parsley, roughly chopped
3 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
2 tbsp fresh lemon juice
½ tsp sumac
½ tsp salt, or to taste
¼ tsp black pepper, or to taste
2 tbsp fresh mint leaves, roughly chopped (optional)

Instructions

1
Combine the diced tomatoes, cucumber, green bell pepper, red onion, and parsley in a large mixing bowl.
2
Drizzle the olive oil and lemon juice over the vegetables, then sprinkle with the sumac, salt, and black pepper.

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