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.

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.

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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.

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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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