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Bulgaria · salad · English edition

Shopska salad

Tomato, cucumber and pepper under a cap of grated white cheese. The vegetables are cut large, the cheese grated fine.

4 servings · 30 minutes (estimated)

Shopska salad
Photo: Popo le Chien · CC0 · image source

Ingredients

Quantities for 4 servings.

  • 4 piece Tomatoes, in large dice
  • 2 piece Cucumbers
  • 2 piece Red peppers
  • 0.5 piece Onion, in thin rings
  • 200 g Bulgarian white cheese, finely grated
  • 20 g Parsley
  • 4 tbsp Sunflower oil
  • 2 tbsp Red wine vinegar
  • to taste Olives
  • to taste Salt

Method

  1. Char the peppers over a flame until the skin blackens, close them in a covered dish for ten minutes and peel them.
  2. Cut the tomatoes and cucumbers into two-centimetre dice and the peppers into strips.
  3. Mix the vegetables with the onion and parsley and dress with the oil, vinegar and salt.
  4. Mound it on a dish and blanket it with the grated cheese without stirring. Finish with olives.
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