Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, fatoush salad. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. 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.
Fatoush Salad is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Fatoush Salad is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook fatoush salad using 18 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Fatoush Salad:
- Take 1 large double ply pita bread cut into triangles
- Make ready 3 tablespoon olive oil
- Make ready to taste salt
- Take 1 tsp paprika to taste
- Make ready 1 large bunch lettuce chopped
- Take 1 large ripe tomato diced
- Make ready 2-3 cucumbers diced
- Get 1/2 a large bell pepper chopped
- Make ready 5 red radishes diced
- Get 2 green/red onions chopped
- Prepare 1/4 cup fresh chopped parsley ior coriander
- Make ready Dressing
- Prepare 3 tablespoon olive oil
- Make ready 2 tablespoon lemon juice
- Make ready 2 garlic cloves minced
- Make ready 1 teaspoon sumac
- Prepare 1 tbsp fresh pomegranate
- Prepare 2 teaspoon mint fresh or dried 1/2 teaspoon salt Fresh cracked black pepper to taste
It's typically tossed with a simple lemon dressing and tons of fresh mint, whose flavors brighten up this salad beautifully. Gradually add oil, whisking constantly, until well. Well, it's a Middle Eastern chopped vegetable salad made with thinly sliced cucumbers, radishes, tomato, homemade pita chips, and tons of fresh mint and parsley. The veggies and herbs are coarsely chopped, making it a super easy salad to whip up.
Steps to make Fatoush Salad:
- In a large skillet, heat 3 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil on medium heat. Add the pita bread and season with salt and paprika - Fry the pita for 5-7 minutes until the pieces are crispy and golden in colour. (Alternatively, bake the pita bread at 425F° for 5-10 minutes.) Set the fried bread aside.
- In a large bowl, add the salad dressing ingredients: olive oil, lemon juice, minced garlic, sumac, salt and fresh cracked black pepper. Whisk together until the dressing is emulsified and well blended.
- Add the lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, green peppers, radishes, green onions and parsley to the large bowl of dressing and toss to combine. - Add the fried pita bread and pomegranate seeds to the salad immediately before serving and gently toss again. - Serve chilled or at room temperature.
Well, it's a Middle Eastern chopped vegetable salad made with thinly sliced cucumbers, radishes, tomato, homemade pita chips, and tons of fresh mint and parsley. The veggies and herbs are coarsely chopped, making it a super easy salad to whip up. Fattoush is the official Lebanese peasant salad, and farmers just throw in whatever spring/summer harvest they have into the bowl to build up this beauty. For this reason, you may find "typical" ingredients for Fattoush, however the list of veggies can vary quite a lot. Put tomato, red onion, peppers, cucumber, radishes and scallions into large salad bowl.
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