Name: Mixed Olives and Garlic Salad.. recipe by Zeenath Fathima at BetterButter
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: Green olives 1 cup; Black olives 1 cup; Capsicum green cut into thick strips 1 cup; Garlic cloves 1/2 cup; Salt 1 tsp; Sumac powder 2 tbsp; Lemon wedges few (optional); Olive oil 2-3 tbsp

ABOUT Mixed Olives and Garlic Salad.. RECIPE

This is a mixed salad recipe from the Middle East, made differently in every country. It is made with innumerable options including pickling. But here i present a raw salad recipe using both black and green kalamata olives, garlic and sumac- a baharat used mostly in the Arab countries. Baharat is an Arabic word that refers to the word spice.

Ingredients Serving: 6

Green olives 1 cup
Black olives 1 cup
Capsicum green cut into thick strips 1 cup
Garlic cloves 1/2 cup
Salt 1 tsp
Sumac powder 2 tbsp
Lemon wedges few (optional)
Olive oil 2-3 tbsp

Instructions

Gather all the ingredients in a bowl and mix them all well.
Drizzle olive oil dressing on top.
Toss it well and keep it refrigerated for the flavors to infuse.
Make it way in advance which will help the flavors to seep through perfectly well.
Serve it chilled right from the refrigerator to the plate.
Salt can be adjusted accordingly.
No green chilli or red chilli is added because garlic gives that punch to it.
Capsicum also adds to the pungent flavour similar to that of chillies.

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