8 Middle Eastern Salads That Are Perfect For Summer

A refreshing Levantine salad featuring crisp pita, fresh vegetables, and a tangy sumac dressing. Perfect for a light, zesty summer dish.

1. Fattoush Salad

A Persian favourite, made with finely chopped cucumbers, tomatoes, and onions, all tossed in a lime and olive oil dressing for a refreshing bite.

2. Shirazi Salad

This parsley-packed salad, mixed with bulgur, tomatoes, and mint, offers a burst of fresh flavours that’s ideal for hot summer days.

3. Tabbouleh

This salad is basically minced vegetable salad that combines freshly chopped tomato, cucumbers, cabbage, bell papers, parsley, mint, lemon juice, olive oil and belong to Egypt. 

4. Salata Khadra

The famous beans of the arab world, ful medames is the hero of the salad which gets mixed with chopped tomatoes, onion, parsley, lemon juice, olive oil, pepper and salt.

5. Ful Medames Salad

If your family don't like to eat cabbage this salad will leave them having second opinions about this vegetable. Just mix cabbage, lemon juice, olive oil, garlic, salt and much fresh or dried mint. 

6. Malfouf salad

Ever heard of a seafood salad? Well this one consists shrimps, tomato, ketchup, mayonnaise, hot sauce, mustard, lemon juice and some lettuce leaves. This salad is quite popular in the Arab countries. 

7. Rubiyan salad

This salad is majorly consumed in the coastal side of Syria and consists of a Levantine cheese called Shanklish and chopped tomatoes with onion and olive oil.

8. Shʿifurah

These salads serve as the perfect side for the summers.