Salads

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Tipili

Dominican tabbouleh: a salad of soaked bulgur wheat, parsley, tomatoes, onions, and lime, of Lebanese origin. A refreshing, herbaceous side dish, served cold.

🇬🇪Georgia

Tomato and Cucumber Salad with Walnut

Ქართული სალათი

Ripe tomato and cucumber in rough chunks with onion, coriander and either walnut paste or just oil and salt.

🇰🇪Kenya

Tomato Onion Salad

Kachumbari

A Kenyan fresh tomato and onion salsa with chili and lime, the essential nyama choma companion

🇹🇳Tunisia

Tunisian Salad

سلاطة تونسية

Cucumber, tomato, onion and pepper diced very fine with mint, dressed with olive oil and lemon, topped with tuna, olives and egg.

🇲🇾Sarawak, Malaysia

Umai

Melanau raw fish salad with lime juice and onions, fresh fish with tangy lime and crisp onions and not fishy.

🇻🇳Hue, Vietnam

Va tron (Hue Fig Salad)

Vả trộn

Va tron, the Hue salad of young figs with pork and sesame, is a named regional dish built on an ingredient with no other representation.

🇦🇲Armenia

Vegetable Khorovats

Բանջարեղենի խորոված

Aubergine, peppers and tomatoes charred whole over the same fire, then peeled hot and chopped with garlic and herbs into a smoky salad.

🇳🇨New Caledonia

Venison Salad

Salade de Cerf

Marinated venison salad; a listed preparation New Caledonian dish; venison tossed into salads with local vegetables; a Broussard specialty from the West Coast; a refreshing preparation of the prized local deer; served with spicy achards and rice; a feature of restaurant menus and table d'hôte experiences.

🇧🇷Brazil

Vinagrete

A sharp relish of diced tomato, white onion and bell pepper dressed with vinegar and oil, Brazil's obligatory churrasco side.

🇧🇾Belarus

Vinegret

Вінегрет

Diced beet salad with potato, carrot, pickled cucumber, sauerkraut and onion dressed with sunflower oil; the everyday starter of all three East Slavic cuisines.

🇺🇸United States

Waldorf Salad

A salad of apples, celery, and walnuts in a mayonnaise dressing — born at the Waldorf-Astoria.

🇮🇩West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

Water Spinach Salad

Plecing Kangkung

Lombok water spinach with spicy tomato sambal, grated coconut, and terasi, fresh and fiery.

🇺🇸Mobile, United States

West Indies Salad

A Mobile, Alabama salad of lump crabmeat marinated in a vinegar-oil dressing with onion, chilled and tossed.

🇲🇲Myanmar

Wheat Noodle Salad

ခေါက်ဆွဲသုပ်

Boiled wheat noodles dressed with chickpea flour, tamarind, chilli oil, fried onion, cabbage and dried shrimp.

🇺🇸United States

Wilted Lettuce

An Appalachian salad of leaf lettuce wilted by hot bacon drippings and vinegar.

🇪🇸Catalonia, Spain

Xato Salad

Xato

A Catalan salad of endive, anchovies, Arbequina olives, salt cod, and tuna, dressed with a nutty xato sauce of almonds, hazelnuts, and nyora peppers.

🇲🇾Singapore, Malaysia

Yee Sang

Yusheng

Prosperity toss salad with raw fish, vegetables, and condiments for Chinese New Year, fresh raw fish with colorful ingredients and crispy crackers.

🇲🇦Morocco

Zaalouk

زعلوك

Cooked Moroccan eggplant salad mashed with tomato, garlic, cumin, paprika, and olive oil.

🇹🇷Turkey

Çoban salatası

Finely diced tomato, cucumber, green pepper and onion tossed with olive oil and lemon — the unwritten default salad beside every kebab plate in Turkey, always chopped small and never lettuce-based.