Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, fattush salad. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Fattoush is essentially a "bread salad," said to have originated in Northern Lebanon. Lebanese farmers would fry leftover pita scraps in a bit of olive oil for extra flavor. And to build their fattoush, they'd simply throw the pita chips in with whatever in-season vegetables and herbs they have on hand. Fattoush is one of the most well known Middle Eastern salads and a standard dish on the 'mezza' (small dishes) table.
Fattush salad is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Fattush salad is something which I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook fattush salad using 13 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Fattush salad:
- Prepare 2 slices pita bread, torn into pieces
- Make ready Feta cheese, crumbled
- Make ready 20 g fresh mint leaves, chopped
- Prepare 20 g fresh parsley leaves, stems remove and chopped
- Make ready 1 lemon juice
- Take 1 Tsp ground sumac (or more if you like the taste)
- Get 1 cucumber, diced
- Make ready 3-4 lettuce leaves, diced
- Take 1 onion, sliced lengthwise
- Prepare 2 large tomatoes or 1 cup cherry tomatoes, diced
- Prepare 1 clove garlic, grated
- Take to taste Salt and red pepper powder
- Prepare Olive oil
This recipe uses two unusual ingredients: sumac and purslane. Sumac, usually sold ground, is ground red berries and used in Middle Eastern, particularly Lebanese, cooking. Purslane is succulent with a lemony flavor, and makes a nice salad green. Gradually add oil, whisking constantly, until well.
Steps to make Fattush salad:
- Heat the oil in a pan and place pieces of pita bread
- And fry until golden
- Combine cucumber, onion, crushed garlic, tomatoes,
- Parsley, mint and lettuce in a large bowl.
- Then, in a separate bowl, add ground sumac, salt, red pepper,
- Lemon juice and olive oil.
- Whisk together.
- Add fried pita bread and crumbled feta cheese to the vegetables.
- Dress the salad with prepared sauce and toss it. Adjust seasoning to taste.
- Serve the salad in a plate and enjoy this pretty delicious salad.
- Ingredients
Purslane is succulent with a lemony flavor, and makes a nice salad green. Gradually add oil, whisking constantly, until well. Fattoush is a Lebanese salad of crisp lettuce, crunchy vegetables, ripe tomatoes, toasted bites of pita bread, and a tangy sumac dressing! A perfect way to use leftover pita bread (ideally homemade pita bread !), this Middle Eastern salad comes together in minutes. A delicious appetizer or side and hearty enough to be a meal on its own.
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