Step 1

You want the cucumbers and tomatoes to be small diced, while the red onion should be minced. Also chop the parsley, mint and cilantro, finely.

Step 2

You can actually zest both and freeze the zest of the second one for another recipe if you like. But you’ll only need the zest of one for this bright cucumber salad.

Step 3

You’ll need about 1/4 cup of lemon juice. For the medium lemons I had, it required two.

Step 4

cucumbers, tomatoes, red onion, mint, parsley, cilantro and lemon zest to a mixing bowl. Stir everything together to distribute the ingredients evenly.

Step 5

, add the fresh lemon juice, olive oil, dried dill, ground sumac, salt and pepper. Whisk them together to make the dressing for your salad.

Step 6

over your salad and toss to coat all the vegetables.

Step 7

But, if you have 30 minutes to let it rest in the fridge, the flavors in Shirazi salad come alive and meld to be their brightest best. Yum!