Khaleeji

Gulf Rocket Salad (Salatat Jarjeer)

Name: Gulf Rocket Salad (Salatat Jarjeer)
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Khaleeji
Ingredients: 4 cups arugula; 1 cup cherry tomato; 1 cucumber; 1/4 cup red onion; 1 lemon; 3 tbsp olive oil; 1 tsp ground sumac; 1/4 tsp salt

Fatima @fatima_machboos

Gulf Rocket Salad (Salatat Jarjeer) is Khaleeji home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the fresh side. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

15 min Easy Vegetarian Vegan Pescatarian Halal Dairy free Gluten free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

4 cups arugula
1 cup cherry tomato
1 cucumber
1/4 cup red onion
1 lemon
3 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp ground sumac
1/4 tsp salt

How to cook it

Toss the arugula, halved cherry tomatoes, sliced cucumber and thinly sliced red onion together in a wide bowl.
Whisk the lemon juice, olive oil, sumac and salt together in a small bowl.
Pour the dressing over the salad just before serving and toss gently so the arugula does not wilt.
Serve alongside a rice platter, the peppery rocket salad that is the everyday counterpoint to a heavy machboos.

Watch how to cook Gulf Rocket Salad (Salatat Jarjeer)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A Khaleeji dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Gulf Rocket Salad (Salatat Jarjeer), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- Bayd bil Tamat (Eggs in Tomato Sauce)
  
  20 min
What it is eaten with
- Ruz Mfalfal (Buttered Basmati Rice)
  
  25 min
The sharp little thing
- Dakkous (Gulf Tomato Relish)
  
  20 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Gulf Rocket Salad (Salatat Jarjeer) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Gulf Rocket Salad (Salatat Jarjeer)
Allergen	In this dish
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 110 kcal
Protein: 1 g
Carbs: 5 g
Fat: 10 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 3 g
Sodium: 70 mg
Saturated fat: 1 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Gulf Rocket Salad (Salatat Jarjeer) takes about 15 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.