Turgay's Turkish Salata

Several years ago, I had a Turkish doctor staying with me for 6 weeks, learning English.  He was young and quite engaging, newly married, and his wife expecting.  He learned English very fast and we had many laughs. He called me bossy, which surprized me a little as I thought I was so nice, and one day he was talking about bossyness when the penny dropped and I realized he was saying busy.    

And he was a great cook, very very fussy about everything, and taught me some basics about Turkish cooking.   He wouldn't let anyone else dish the ice cream because they just dug into the middle.   It had to be cut straight down one side of the bucket.

Turkish Salata
Ingredients
Tomato, peeled
green pepper
cilantro leaves
cucumber, peeled
Lettuce
Green onion or dry onion
Sumac
Salt

Lemon
EVOO
Dired mint

Instructions
Cut the vegetables up very fine.
For the onion, add the salt and sumac and hand press.
Hand press all the ingredients.
Serve on a flat plate.
Drizzle oil over.
Sprinkle dried mint over.