Middle Eastern Bread Salad – Fattoush

This Middle Eastern Bread Salad recipe is easy to put together with a few key ingredients that make it unique, fresh and tasty. Also known as Fattoush Salad, a Lebanese salad with toasted or fried bits of pita bread.

Middle Eastern Bread Salad

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It starts like many salads with greens and vegetables such as tomatoes and cucumbers. Often it is described as a bread salad because it contains pita bread, however, there are a few other ingredients that give this salad lots of flavor.

Fresh flat leaf parsley and fresh mint are two additional ingredients which make this salad unique. If  you are familiar with Tabbouleh salad, another well known middle eastern dish, then the addition of parsley and mint makes sense.

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The other unique ingredient is ground sumac. Sumac has a great tart, lemony flavor that, in my opinion, makes this dish. I even make this dressing to use on a regular everyday tossed salad. It has a pretty dark red color and is often sprinkled it on top of dips like hummus or baba ganoush. 

I haven’t seen ground sumac in the grocery stores around my house, but it is available in many middle eastern groceries or even on Amazon.

If you enjoy salads and lemony tart flavors, then this recipe is for you. Try serving this at your next family get together for something a little different and bursting with flavor.

Everyone will be glad you did.

Here’s the recipe:

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Middle Eastern Bread Salad - Fattoush

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 3 minutes

Total Time 13 minutes

Servings 6 -8

Ingredients

• 2 small pitas cut into small pieces
• 1 head Romaine Lettuce torn into bite sized pieces
• 1 medium tomato chopped
• 1/8 c chopped fresh mint leaves
• 1/4 c chopped fresh flat leaf parsley
• 1/2 seedless cucumber sliced.
• 1/4 c red onion diced

Dressing

• 1/2 c fresh lemon juice about 2 lemons
• 1/4 c extra virgin olive oil
• 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon ground sumac

Instructions

1. Toast the pita pieces under the broiler on both sides for about 3 minutes
2. In a large bowl combine lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers and onions.
3. Add parsley and mint leaves.
4. Make the dressing by whisking together the lemon juice, olive oil, sumac, salt and pepper.
5. Pour the dressing over the bowl of greens and toss.
6. Top with pita.