Salad
Shopska salad
A chopped summer salad of tomato, cucumber and pepper under a thick snow of grated white cheese.
Recipe from Туѓино Јабано
- Prep
- 20 min
- Cook
- —
- Total
- 20 min
- Fasting
- Not suitable
Ingredients 9 ingredients
Method
- Cut the tomatoes into rough 2 cm chunks and put them in a wide bowl. Peel the cucumber if the skin is thick, halve it lengthways and slice it about as thick as a coin.
- Seed the pepper and cut it into short strips. Slice the onion very thinly; if it is fierce, rinse the slices under cold water and pat them dry.
- Salt the vegetables and turn them over. Leave them five minutes — the tomatoes give up a little juice, and that juice becomes part of the dressing.
- Spoon over the oil and the vinegar and turn everything gently, once or twice only. Overworking the salad breaks the tomatoes down.
- Grate the chilled sirenje over the top in a thick, even layer that hides the vegetables completely. This is the point of the salad and it is not the place to be sparing.
- Scatter with chopped parsley and serve at once, with bread to mop the bowl.
If you cannot find it
Substitutions that work outside Macedonia.
- Sirenje
- a firm Bulgarian or Greek feta, grated rather than crumbled; it is saltier, so hold back on the salt
- Green horn pepper
- a pale green Turkish or romano pepper, or half a green bell pepper
- Ridged Balkan cucumber
- a small English cucumber, or two or three Lebanese ones, which have the same firm flesh and few seeds
