Artichoke Salad

Welcome to the cast iron Lebanese cooking and more. Hello my Dutch oven lovers. If you are not one of them, hope you will be soon. [Music] My dish to you today is about another artichoke heart, the bottom, but this time is a salad. The last video I had was with the meat and baked in the oven and you can eat it with a rice on the side. This one is just a salad and uh is very simple. Hope you can find that artish shock frozen because I got messages from friends. They watch my videos and they say they couldn’t find it in the market. So maybe you have to try Mediterranean markets or Middle Eastern markets. They have them in bags, frozen in bags. And it say here RD shock RT shock. You can see that very light to see it. But each bag is about uh about uh 400 like one lb approximately has about eight or nine art shock. What I might have to do maybe half of this today for just to show you how you can make it. But it’s very good. You can eat it with appetizers, uh, cheese, cold cut, stuff like that, or with a steak or barbecue chicken or meat. Let me show you the ingredients. Here is the ingredients. First one, you need artichoke. You can see them like that. You might find them also in a can. I’m not really sure. I prefer this is a just a fresh green and frozen. And I have here two cloves of garlic cleaned. The garlic is clean. I have salt. Actually, I’m using Himalayan pink salt. I have uh lemon. I might need two of these. This is from my lemon tree. And the tree is just start now getting to ripe. Some of them they still half yellow, half green. So, olive oil, salt and garlic and lemon juice. That’s all the ingredients. Once we open this, what we have to do is uh boil it to become really good. Let’s see how many we have here. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 nine of them. You see, all we need is probably four is fine or five. And I want to put them in boiling for a few minutes to get soft. We have here I have here boiling water. Use the small one. We need to cut them anyway. And once you test it and you see that the knife goes in, means it’s already soft enough. Like I see here, I give it 1 minute more. Yeah. Now it’s already boiled. I want to take one by one and show you how I do it. First I will take the garlic. I put a pinch of salt. I smash them to become paste. This is also this you can wood some companies they make them from hard plastic. You can do if you don’t have one you can do them in zipper bag. And then we’ll put them here. We squeeze the lemon. You can boil them and uh leave them later on and uh when you need them, you do them because you want to eat them cold anyway. But right now, I did not shock them with water. I just want to make them and leave them to cool. So, here is my lemon. Let me squeeze this. I can get more of the juice. Make the other one. I like to cut it this way. Then it’s easy to squeeze all the juice. Now you do like this [Music] [Music] as you see. Bring this one. Here we are. Mix them with the lemon and the garlic. You can garnish little bit with a chopped uh parsley, but I I like it like this. This is up to you. Once you do like that, you can drizzle some oil on them. This is what it is. Arty shi salad. Hope you want to like this artichoki salad. Try it and do not forget to subscribe, share and give me your comments. Hope to see you for next video. Thank you for watching. Bye. [Music]