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Easy Lebanese Salad, also known as Lebanese Salata, is a salad mixing chopped tomatoes, bell pepper, onion, cucumber, green onion and parsley topped with a lemony-mint dressing. This is light and the prefect addition to any meal or add grilled chicken or salmon to make it a meal itself.
I am in love with this Easy Lebanese Salad and make it often as a side dish to my meals, on wraps, in salads or on top of my hummus. This is among my favorite lebanese food to have on hand. If you have a favorite lebanese restaurant you might know this salad as Lebanese Salata. We love adding this lebanese salata as a side to so many meals. For example, they would top a Chicken Shawarma Bowl with it, add it to a Beef Kafta Bowl, add it to a Hummus Spiced Beef Plate or a pita filled with hummus, tabbouleh and chicken. What I love most about this easy Lebanese salad is that it uses simple ingredients. It mixes tomatoes, green pepper, cucumbers, green onions, sweet onion, parsley and a light lemon dressing. This Lebanese Salad is a classic middle eastern salad that I make along with Fattoush Recipe and Traditional Tabbouleh Salad.
This salad is easy to customize with additions like beans, grilled meat, fish or other flavors. The dressing is so good and worth making a double batch. I even like to add za’atar or sumac or make it spicy with crushed red pepper or cayenne red pepper. Try adding crispy pita chips or crispy chickpeas for crunch. If you make this salad ahead of time you can leave the dressing off and just add it when you are ready to serve. I love Mediterranean salads and often rotate between today’s recipe this Malfouf Salad (Lebanese Cabbage Salad), Greek Cabbage Salad, Mediterranean Lentil Salad or this Mediterranean Bean Salad.
Recipe Ingredients
These simple pantry staples are all you need. See the recipe card below for exact amounts and printable instructions.
- Tomatoes: use any fresh tomatoes you have on hand. I tend to like beefsteak tomatoes or roma tomatoes and remove the seeds and dice them.
- Green Pepper: crispy green bell pepper is diced and added to this salad. You can also add red bell pepper.
- Cucumber: I find english cucumber to be a great addition to add. I like how crisp it is. You also can use a regular cucumber or Persian cucumbers if that is what you have on hand.
- Green Onions: use the green and white parts of the green onion for more flavor.
- Sweet Onion: use a sweet onion for bite but you also can use shallot or red onions.
- Parsley: freshly chopped curly parsley adds a great herby flavor. You also can use Italian parsley.
- Lemon Sumac Dressing: the lemony sumac dressing is tangy and one of my favorite Mediterranean dressings to make.
Ways to Modify this Lebanese Salata
- Protein: Add grilled chicken, beef, shrimp, falafel or salmon to this salad.
- Beans: Beans will help add protein and bulk up the Lebanese salad recipe. I especially like chickpeas, white beans and black beans.
- Dressing: Switch up the dressing by adding pomegranate molasses, balsamic vinegar, red wine vinegar or Greek yogurt.
- Cheese: If you like cheese I think that feta cheese works really well in this salad. I suggest using crumbled feta cheese.
- Vegetables: Additional vegetables are always good in this salad. I like to add avocado, artichokes, roasted red peppers, red onion, cherry tomatoes, carrots, radish, celery or jalapeños.
- Grains: Mix in cooked quinoa, bulgur wheat, couscous, brown rice or farro.
- Herbs: Other than parsley you can mix in fresh basil, dill, fresh mint or oregano.
- Pickled Vegetables: I love adding pickled vegetables to my salads like pickled red onions and pickled vegetables.
How to Make Lebanese Salad
Step 1: Mix Salad Ingredients: In a large bowl mix the tomatoes, bell pepper, cucumber, green onions, parsley and onion.
Step 2: Create Dressing: In a mason jar combine the olive oil, lemon juice, garlic cloves, mint, salt and pepper. Seal the mason jar and shake the dressing until combined {or use a small bowl and whisk the dressing}.
Step 3: Dress Salad: Pour the dressing over the salad and toss to combine. Taste and adjust mint, salt and pepper. In the bowl with the salad add the romaine lettuce {optional} and toss to combine. Alternatively you can lay a bed of romaine in a bowl and add the Lebanese Salad on top. Serve as a side dish alongside a meal or use as a main dish with grilled fish or salmon.
Storage Tips
- Store this lebanese salad in an airtight container for up to 4 days. You might need to add more dressing and fresh herbs when you are ready to serve it again.
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Easy Lebanese Salad
Ingredients
- 3 medium tomatoes, diced {about 2 cups}
- 1 green bell pepper, seeds removed, chopped
- 1/2 English cucumber, seeds removed, chopped
- 5 green onions, white and green parts chopped
- 1/4 cup fresh parsley, chopped
- 1 small onion, chopped
- Romaine lettuce, chopped
For the dressing:
- 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 teaspoon dried mint
- 1 teaspoon of your favorite spice {I like to use sumac or za'atar}
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt, {more to taste}
- Black pepper, to taste
Instructions
- In a large bowl mix the tomatoes, bell pepper, cucumber, green onions, parsley and onion.
- In a mason jar combine the olive oil, lemon juice, garlic cloves, mint, salt and pepper. Seal the mason jar and shake the dressing until combined {or use a small bowl and whisk the dressing}.
- Pour the dressing over the salad and toss to combine. Taste and adjust mint, salt and pepper.
- In the bowl with the salad add the romaine lettuce {optional} and toss to combine. Alternatively you can lay a bed of romaine in a bowl and add the Lebanese Salad on top.
- Serve as a side dish alongside a meal or use as a main dish with grilled fish or salmon.
Notes
- If you plan to have leftovers I would not use the entire dressing on the salad but would just dress the part of the salad you plan to eat and then dress the remaining salad once you are ready to eat it so it doesn’t get soggy.
- You can feel free to add a variety of other spices to the dressing including 1 teaspoon of sumac or za’atar.
- There are a lot of things you can add to this salad including feta cheese, olives, grilled meat or tofu, additional vegetables and beans.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
This recipe is fresh, flavorful and easy to put together. I made the recipe as it is and two days later I made it again and the only change I made was I doubled it! I will definitely be trying more of your recipes!
So glad you enjoyed it!
What a great recipe for the summer!
I managed to find all the ingredients for this salad. It tasted great. Thank you ?
Glad that you enjoyed it!
She looks beautiful, is she good for dieters?
Yes!
Thank you for this refreshing and very tasty Mediterranean salad. Fattoush is one of my favorite Lebanese dishes.
I am sure that anyone who tries this recipe will love it.
Thanks Julia.
Your explanations are amazing…easy too
Thanks alot
Mmm, I love crunchy salad. This looks really delicious.
Thanks! I love crunchy salads too. I hope you try it and enjoy it.
I love how refreshing this salad is with the mint and lemon juice. It was a little too lemony for us so I will use a little less next time. Maybe adding the sumac helps but I didn’t have any. I also used cilantro instead of parsley because I forgot to pick up more. It was still very good!
Thanks for the feedback. I can see how it can be too lemony. I do think when the sumac is added, the lemon brings out the flavors of the sumac. I am glad you liked it! Love the idea of cilantro too.
I’m glad you mentioned ground sumac when you were talking about additional spices because I use ground sumac ALL of the time and I can clearly see in your photos that ground sumac is on the salad but wasn’t listed in the recipe 🙂
Yes I didn’t include it in the recipe–I should probably add it as optional. I usually add sumac or za’atar to the dressing but it isn’t necessary!