Khaleeji

Cucumber and Laban Salad

Name: Cucumber and Laban Salad
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Khaleeji
Ingredients: 1.5 cups laban; 1 english cucumber; 1 garlic cloves; 2 tbsp mint; 1/4 tsp salt; 1 tsp olive oil

Fatima @fatima_machboos

Cucumber and Laban Salad 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 Pescatarian Halal Gluten free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1.5 cups laban
1 english cucumber
1 garlic cloves
2 tbsp mint
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp olive oil

How to cook it

Grate or finely dice the cucumber and squeeze out the excess water.
Whisk the laban until smooth, then stir in the cucumber, minced garlic, chopped mint and salt.
Chill 10 minutes to let the flavors settle, then drizzle with a little olive oil just before serving.
Serve cold alongside a rice platter, the tangy laban salad that is a different dish from the cumin-seasoned raita of North India.

Watch how to cook Cucumber and Laban Salad

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

10 Minute Cucumber Yogurt Khyar Bi Laban Salad Recipe Fufu's Kitchen Play the video

Serve it with

A Khaleeji dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Cucumber and Laban Salad, 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, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Cucumber and Laban Salad carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Cucumber and Laban Salad
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Gulf Rocket Salad (Salatat Jarjeer)
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: 70 kcal
Protein: 3 g
Carbs: 6 g
Fat: 4 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 4 g
Sodium: 110 mg
Saturated fat: 2 g

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

When to cook it

Cucumber and Laban Salad 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.