Purslane Salad is one of the lightest and easy to make salad of Turkish cuisine. Purslane Salad is considered as either starter or meze at the restaurants. To make this delicious salad, you just need purslane leaves, yogurt, garlic and olive oil.

Purslane leaves are very fragile and the most vitamin rich part is located at its leaves. As it is sold together with its roots, it usually contains soil or mud on its roots. So, it needs to be washed multiple times very carefully without giving harm to its fragile leaves. The best way to wash it without giving harm to its leaves is to cut off the root parts in advance before starting to wash the vegetable.

After you cut off the root part, you need to put it into a bowl which have full of water in it and wait some minutes to let the vegetable to release any remaining soil on it. You need to change the water 4 to 5 times to make sure that the vegetable all cleaned up. Try not to harm the leaves during this process.

Purslane Vegetable

Purslane Benefits

Purslane vegetable has countless benefits for human body. It carries a noticeable amount of Omega-3 fatty acids in it. It is the most Omega-3 rich vegetable among the all vegetables. Basically, if you can‘t source fish, you can consume Purslane vegetable instead. As Omega-3 fatty acids are not produced by the human body, we need to outsource them. At this very point, Purslane Salad will help us to get the needed amount of Omega-3 fatty acids if we consume this vegetable as much as it needs to be. As you know, Omega-3 is very important to have a healthy heart.

Purslane vegetable also carries A, B12, C vitamins higher level potassium in it. Those vitamins are also crucial for human health. And once you include yogurt and garlic, this salad becomes a health bomb.

Purslane Salad

Course Side Dish
Cuisine Turkish
Prep Time 5 minutes
Total Time 5 minutes
Servings 4
Calories 103 kcal


  • 3 cups Purslane leaves
  • 2 cups Strained Yogurt
  • 3 large garlic crushed
  • 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 tbsp red pepper flakes


  1. Cut off the roots of purslane bunces and wash and drain it well to make sure there is no soil left on the leaves.

  2. Separate the leaves from the stems and use a salad spinner to remove any extra water drops on it.

  3. In a separate bowl, combine strained yogurt and garlic and adjust the amount of salt to taste.

  4. Add the purslane leaves to the bowl and mix all together well. Make sure all the leaves are covered with the yogurt mixture.

  5. Take the salad from the bowl to the serving plate and garnish it extra virgin olive oil and red chili pepper flakes.

  6. Serve.


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