Ezme Salatasi - Turkish Tomato Salad

Dice the tomatoes,cucumber,onion and pepper into bite size pieces and add to a big bowl.Add crushed garlic and chopped parsley and spices and the liquid ingredients to this and mix well.Serve.

You can serve immediately but on sitting the flavours blend in and the salad becomes more perfect.You can adjust the spices and can avoid salt if you tomato /V8 juice is salty.Simple but spicey salad this is and the parsley adds to the flavour.I always reduce the amount of parsley as I find it sharper in taste than cilantro,but this is one dish that I like more parsley.Also the salad can be served as a filling in pita bread or with rice crackers/tortilla chips .I served it with a simple sago pappad.