Learn about this tasty middle eastern bread salad known as Fattoush. Using a few unique ingredients for a tangy and tasty dish.
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Middle Eastern Bread Salad
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.
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 online.
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.
P.S. You may also like some of my other Middle Eastern recipes such as my Aunt Mimi’s Authentic Hummus or Baba Ganoush. You can find them and a few others on my Recipes Page.
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Middle Eastern Bread Salad - Fattoush
Learn about this tasty middle eastern bread salad known as Fattoush. Using a few unique ingredients for a tangy and tasty dish.
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
- Toast the pita pieces under the broiler on both sides for about 3 minutes
- In a large bowl combine lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers and onions.
- Add parsley and mint leaves.
- Make the dressing by whisking together the lemon juice, olive oil, sumac, salt and pepper.
- Pour the dressing over the bowl of greens and toss.
- Top with pita.
Nutrition Information
Yield 12 Serving Size 1Amount Per Serving Calories 76 Total Fat 5g Saturated Fat 1g Trans Fat 0g Unsaturated Fat 4g Cholesterol 0mg Sodium 128mg Carbohydrates 8g Fiber 2g Sugar 2g Protein 2g
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