Fattoush Salad
Fattoush Salad

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Fattoush Salad is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Fattoush Salad is something which I have loved my entire life.

Fattoush is one of the most well known Middle Eastern salads and a standard dish on the 'mezza' (small dishes) table. It's a colorful tossed salad with a lemony garlic dressing, and if you've never made a single Arabic dish, this is a delicious and healthy place to start. Fattoush is essentially a "bread salad," said to have originated in Northern Lebanon.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have fattoush salad using 20 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Fattoush Salad:
  1. Take Salad dressing
  2. Prepare 2 tsp sumac soaked in 2 tsp warm water
  3. Prepare Juice of 1 small lemon
  4. Take Pinch sugar
  5. Prepare 1 garlic clove crushed
  6. Make ready 1 tsp white wine vinegar
  7. Take 1 tsp finely chopped mint
  8. Get 50 mls olive oil
  9. Take Pinch salt
  10. Prepare Salad
  11. Take 3 large tomatoes
  12. Get 1/3 of a cucumber
  13. Take 1 Gem lettuce
  14. Prepare 1 Romaine lettuce
  15. Prepare 1 small bunch flat leaf parsley
  16. Prepare 1/2 small bunch of mint leaves
  17. Take 3 spring onions
  18. Get 3 pitta breads
  19. Prepare Olive oil
  20. Make ready Zaatar for sprinkling

Fattoush is a Lebanese salad of crisp lettuce, crunchy vegetables, toasted bites of pita bread and a tangy sumac dressing! A perfect way to use leftover pita bread, this fattoush salad recipe comes together in minutes and is hearty enough to be a meal on its own. This light salad of Lebanese origin is a big favorite. Crunchy fried pita chips add delightful taste and texture.

Instructions to make Fattoush Salad:
  1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Cut the pita breads into the small triangles. Drizzle with olive oil and spring with zaatar and salt. Bake until golden brown.
  2. Meanwhile make your dressing by mixing all of the dressing ingredients together and set aside.
  3. Prepare the salad - deseed and roughly chop the tomatoes. Roughly chop the lettuce (both types). finely chop the herbs. quarter the cucumber, remove the seeds and roughly chop. Place in a bowl, add the pitta chips and drizzle over the dressing.

And a lemon and white wine vinegar dressing makes a snappy, light lunch or dinner. 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. A crisp and crunchy Levantine salad, best enjoyed on a hot and sunny day. The pitta croutons are a great way to use up stale pitta breads.

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