Kachumber Salad
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A versatile and easy salad using cucumbers, tomatoes and onions with cumin and chilli, coriander, basil or mint.
Serves:4 people
Ingredients
- 4 large tomatoes
- 1 large cucumber - peeled and de-seed if you prefer It can make the salad too watery if the cucumber has too many seeds.
- ¼ preserved lemon, diced into cubes
- 1 onion (red or yellow)
- 1 bunch chopped fresh mint leaves (3 tbsp)
- ½-1 small banana chilli - finely sliced
- ½ tsp ground cumin
- small bunch fresh coriander (1 tbsp)
- 3-4 tbsp olive oil
- 2-3 tbsp fresh lemon juice
- salt
- freshly ground black pepper optional
Instructions
- Chop all the tomatoes and cucumbers into small cubes and put them into a large salad bowl
- Chop the onion very finely. Add the sliced chillies and preserved lemon.
- Sprinkle over the ground cumin, mint and half the coriander. Toss lightly.
- If not serving straight away - cover and leave in the fridge.
- When you are ready to serve, sprinkle with salt and drizzle with oil and lemon juice. Use less oil, lemon and salt. Taste and add to your liking. We have it drowning in olive oil, but not to everyone's liking! Toss lightly and garnish with the rest of the coriander.
Variations
- Swap fresh chillies for chilli powder or add both!
- Swap nectarines or peaches for tomatoes.
- Use fresh basil or parsley as alternatives for coriander and mint.
- Replace onions with spring onions.
- Go for only tomatoes 'a la Rick Stein' and replace lemon juice with white wine vinegar.
- Replace the preserved lemons with fresh unwaxed lemons. Slice very thinly and cut into strips - you can remove the rind or leave it on.
- Replace lemon with lime juice or white wine vinegar.
Notes
Lots of options here - but the basic recipe is the same. Remove the chilli or preserved lemon if it is not your thing, and swap the herbs for those to hand or that you prefer.
This recipe makes quite a generous salad - probably more like 4-6, so please scale up or down.
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