About The Ingredients
This recipe features the basic and most common version of Mevsim Salatası. The ingredients are divided into two categories: the salad base and the dressing.
Salad Ingredients
Lettuce: It is the main ingredient. In Turkish, it’s called lettuceand any type works well. We use Romaine lettuce, but you can also use butterhead lettuce, little gems, Turkish curly lettuce (curly lettuce), or iceberg lettuce. Just chop it roughly for a nice texture.
Purple Cabbage (Red Cabbage): Thinly slice the purple cabbage to add a beautiful color and crunch to the salad. It’s never substituted with white cabbage.
We also need carrot and parsley.
Dressing Ingredients
The dressing for Mevsim Salatası is a classic Turkish salad sauce: Lemon juice, extra virgin olive oil and salt.
Pomegranate molasses is optional as it might not be something you always have. But we do recommend it. It is like a hidden treasure in Turkish kitchens. It adds a hint of sweetness and a tangy depth to the salad.
We’re lucky to always have it on hand, thanks to Zerrin’s aunt, who makes it using pomegranates from her own yard and shares a large bottle with us every year.
If you don’t have pomegranate molasses, that’s perfectly fine! The salad will still taste delicious with just the basic dressing.
But if you’re feeling adventurous, you can try making your own with our homemade pomegranate molasses recipe.
You can also add a sprinkle of sumac in the dressing if you’re a fan of its tangy flavor—just like we do in our pomegranate molasses salad dressing.