Israeli Salad

Ingredients

  • 2 Large Cucumbers
  • 4 Mid-size tomatoes
  • 1/3 Yellow onion
  • 1 Small lemon
  • 1 Tablespoon of olive oil

Preparation

  1. Take out the tomatoes’ seeds/liquids, and chop the rest to small pieces
  2. Peel the cucumbers, and chop to small pieces
  3. Peel the onion, and chop it to small pieces
  4. Mix them in a bowl. The best mixing instrument is hands (wash first!)
  5. Pour juice from the lemon on the vegetables.
  6. Pour olive oil on the vegetables.
  7. Salt&pepper (black, ground) to taste
  8. Mix again to season evenly.

Variants

  • Add cooked/canned corn kernels (mexican style)
  • Add chopped hard-boiled egg (breakfast style)
  • Add cottage cheese (lunch style)
  • Add chopped Israeli pickled cucumber
  • Substitute the onion with chives (fancy style)
  • Add some extra-fine chopped hot pepper

Any subset of these works — so this is actually 64 different recipes!